Neil Stuke is an English

United Kingdom

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 actor notable for playing Matthew in the second and third series of Game On after taking over the role from Ben Chaplin

Ben Chaplin

Ben Chaplin , is an English actor.-Early life:Chaplin, the youngest of four children, was born in London, the son of Cynthia , a drama teacher, and Peter Greenwood, an engineer. He took his stage name after his mother's maiden name. He was raised in Windsor, Berkshire, England and attended Hurtwood...

,and for his role as Billy Lamb, Head Clerk in the 2011 BBC television series "Silk". His television career also includes Between the Lines, Trust

Trust (TV series)

Trust was a UK television program produced written and created by Simon Block for the BBC by Box TV Productions. It starred Robson Green and a cast of other British actors including Sarah Parish, Neil Stuke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Eva Birthistle and Ian McShane...

, Reggie Perrin, At Home with the Braithwaites

At Home with the Braithwaites

At Home with the Braithwaites is a British comedy-drama television series, created and written by Sally Wainwright . The storyline follows a suburban family from Leeds, whose life is turned upside down when the mother of the family wins 38 million pounds on the lottery...

, Monday Monday, Office Gossip

Office Gossip

Office Gossip is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 2001. Starring Pauline Quirke, it was written by Paul Mayhew-Archer, who co-wrote The Vicar of Dibley, and George Pritchett....

, Bedtime

Bedtime

Bedtime, in Western parenting tradition, involves to a greater or lesser extent, rituals made to help children feel more secure, and become accustomed toward a comparatively more rigid sleep schedule than they would otherwise establish....

, A Touch of Frost, The Catherine Tate Show

The Catherine Tate Show

The Catherine Tate Show is a British television sketch comedy written by Catherine Tate and Aschlin Ditta. Tate also stars in all but one of the show's sketches, which feature a wide range of characters. The Catherine Tate Show airs on BBC Two and is shown worldwide through the BBC...

and playing an alcohol abusing footballer/policeman in a 1997 episode of Pie in the Sky.

In 2006 he guest-starred in The Bill

The Bill

The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

in which his character (James Tennant) was involved in the storyline of missing child Amy Tennant. Stuke reprised the role in 2007 for the storyline's dramatic conclusion.

He also appeared in Rookery Nook

Rookery Nook (play)

Rookery Nook is a 1926 British comedic play written by Ben Travers. It was based by Travers on his own 1923 novel Rookery Nook, about a series of confusions over an unoccupied house. It was first performed at the Aldwych Theatre in London, and became one of the Aldwych Farces.-Adaptations:In 1930 a...

at the Menier Chocolate Factory

Menier Chocolate Factory

The Menier Chocolate Factory is an award-winning 180 seat fringe studio theatre, restaurant and gallery. It is located in a former 1870s Menier Chocolate Company factory in Southwark Street, a major street in the London Borough of Southwark, central south London, England. The theatre stages plays...

, London from 16 April to 20 June 2009.

In the summer of 2010, Stuke featured in Celebrity MasterChef. He has also been a panellist on several episodes of the topical discussion series The Wright Stuff

The Wright Stuff

The Wright Stuff is a British television chat show, hosted by Matthew Wright, and currently airing on Channel 5 each weekday morning from 9:15 to 11:10am....

.

Personal

Before becoming an actor, Stuke worked in a clothes shop and as a second hand car dealer. When not acting, he buys houses for renovation and also owns a farm produce shop called Franklins in Dulwich

Dulwich

Dulwich is an area of South London, England. The settlement is mostly in the London Borough of Southwark with parts in the London Borough of Lambeth...

, south London

London

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. Married to Sally Ann, he has two children, Minnie and Harrison.

Filmography

Television
Year	TV Show	Role	Notes
1991	Drop the Dead Donkey	Star Batter	1 episode
1993	Agatha Christie's Poirot Agatha Christie's Poirot Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was originally made by LWT and is now made by ITV Studios...	Peter Baker	1 episode
	Between the Lines	Det. Con. Green	1 episode
1994	Heartbeat	Snakey	1 episode
1995	The Chief The Chief (UK television series) The Chief is a British television crime drama series that aired on ITV from 1990 to 1995, starring Martin Shaw, Michael Cochrane and Tim Pigott-Smith. It was made by Anglia Television.-Summary:...	Bobby Dean	1 episode
	Resort to Murder	Skins	4 episodes
1996	A Touch of Frost	D.S. Nash	1 episode
	Karaoke	Peter	3 episodes
	Cold Lazarus Cold Lazarus Cold Lazarus is a four-part British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying of cancer of the pancreas....	Peter	1 episode
	Out of the Blue Out of the Blue (1995 TV series) Out of the Blue was a hard-hitting BBC police drama, set and filmed in Sheffield. It was described by series script editor Claire Elliot as "contemporary, gritty, urban reality"....	Tommy Defty	1 episode
1996–1998	Game on	Matthew	Series 2-3 (12 episodes)
1997	Pie in the Sky	Kirk Flowerbridge	1 episode
	The Bill	Alex	1 episode
	Light Lunch Light Lunch Light Lunch is a Channel 4 lunch-time comedy chatshow broadcast between March 1997 and February 1998. It starred Mel and Sue...	Himself	1 episode
1998	Seesaw Seesaw (novel) Seesaw, is a 1996 novel by English author Deborah Moggach, first published in 1996 by Heinemann and recommended in OUP's Good Fiction Guide.-Plot introduction:...	Jon
	Silent Witness Silent Witness Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...	Andy Fox	1 episode
	Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...	Tony	1 episode
	Grafters Grafters Grafters was a British drama–comedy programme originally broadcast in the UK on ITV from 27 October 1998 to 20 December 1999 for 16 episodes over two series....	Paul	1 episode
	Drop the Dead Donkey	Wes Jasper	2 episodes
2000	At Home with the Braithwaites	Keith Kershaw	Pilot episode
	The Sins The Sins The Sins is a television series from 2000. It was directed by David Yates, Sallie Aprahamian and Simon Curtis and written by William Ivory. It centres on Len Green , a former bank robber and getaway driver, who has retired from the criminal life and joined the undertaker's run by his uncle...	Carl Rogers	7 episodes
2001	Office Gossip	Simon	6 episodes
2002	Murder in Mind	Colin Edwardson	1 episode
2003	Trust Trust (TV series) Trust was a UK television program produced written and created by Simon Block for the BBC by Box TV Productions. It starred Robson Green and a cast of other British actors including Sarah Parish, Neil Stuke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Eva Birthistle and Ian McShane...	Martin Greg	6 episodes
	Murphy's Law Murphy's Law (TV series) Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Northern Ireland, starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy. There were five series of the drama, shown on BBC One. The first two were composed of individual stories. Series three, four...	Carl	1 episodes
	Bedtime Bedtime Bedtime, in Western parenting tradition, involves to a greater or lesser extent, rituals made to help children feel more secure, and become accustomed toward a comparatively more rigid sleep schedule than they would otherwise establish....	John	3 eopisodes
2005	The Afternoon Play The Afternoon Play The Afternoon Play is a series of individual plays which sometimes appear on BBC One during weekday afternoons. The first series began on 27 January 2003, and as of 2008 there have been five series...	Steve Passmore	1 episode
	Faith Faith Faith is confidence or trust in a person or thing, or a belief that is not based on proof. In religion, faith is a belief in a transcendent reality, a religious teacher, a set of teachings or a Supreme Being. Generally speaking, it is offered as a means by which the truth of the proposition,...	Nigel
	Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky	Andy	Unknown episodes
	Murder in Suburbia Murder in Suburbia Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005.-Plot summary:The series focused on various murders in the fictional suburban England town of Middleford; filming took place in North West London, including Northwood.-Regular cast and characters:-Episode...	Steve	1 episode
	Chopratown Chopratown Chopratown is a comedy drama from the BBC about private eye Vic Chopra . In the film Chopra investigates Ali Ergun , a shady Turkish bakery owner...	Det. Inspector Nigel Caro
	Life and Death in Rome	Himself	1 episode
2006	Soundproof	Chris Groves
2006–2007	The Bill	James Tennant	18 episodes
2007	Kingdom Kingdom (TV series) Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal...	Damien	1 episode
2009	Reggie Perrin	Chris	6 episodes
	Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...	Glen Jarvis	1 episode
	Monday Monday Monday Monday (TV series) Monday Monday is an ITV comedy drama. It stars Fay Ripley, Jenny Agutter, Neil Stuke, Holly Aird, Morven Christie, Tom Ellis and Miranda Hart.It is set in the head office of a supermarket that has fallen on hard times and had to re-locate its staff from London to Leeds...	Max	7 episodes
	Saturday Kitchen Saturday Kitchen Saturday Kitchen Live is a 90 minute cookery programme, which is broadcast live on BBC One on Saturday mornings. It is currently presented by James Martin; previous presenters have included Antony Worrall Thompson and Gregg Wallace. The programme is currently produced by Cactus TV...	Himself	1 episode(16 May 2009)
2010	Agatha Christie's Marple	Dr Haydock	1 episode
2011	Silk Silk (TV series) Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's Counsel, known as 'taking silk'.-Origin:...	Billy Lamb	6 episodes

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1993	Century	Felix
1994	Borderland	Soldier	Short movie
1995	Suckers	Dave	Short movie
1996	Masculine Mescaline	Mike	Short movie
	Cold Lazarus Cold Lazarus Cold Lazarus is a four-part British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying of cancer of the pancreas....	Peter	Released in 4 Parts
1998	Shark Hunt	Unknown	Uncredited
	Sliding Doors Sliding Doors Sliding Doors is a 1998 British-American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Howitt and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, and featured John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Virginia McKenna. The music was composed by David Hirschfelder...	Defensive bloke
	If only...	Freddy
1999	Dead Bolt Dead	The Assassin
	Mad Cows	Desk Sergeant
2000	Circus	Roscoe
	Wedding Tackle	Salty
	Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry is the penultimate novel by the late British avant-garde novelist B. S. Johnson. It is the metafictional account of a disaffected young man, Christie Malry, who applies the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to his own life, "crediting" himself against society...	Headlam
2001	The Dark	The Apprentice
2003	Madre Teresa	Kline
2004	School of Seduction	Craig
2005	Out on a Limb	Simon
2007	Kingdom Kingdom (TV series) Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal...	Damien
2008	Le petit mort'	Promoter	Short movie

External links

• Neil Stuke Official Website
• Rookery Nook website