Nigel Le Vaillant
Encyclopedia
Nigel Le Vaillant is a British
actor, best known for his roles in Casualty
and Dangerfield
.
. Playwright Alan Ayckbourn
asked if he would work as an assistant stage manager in a Scarborough Theatre production. He was to sit A Levels at Oxford, but instead took the job, which was short-lived. He studied English at St. Peter's College, Oxford. Three years later he got his equity card and an agent. He later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company
. Le Vaillant had also a role in TV-series Brideshead Revisited (1981). He then went on to play Dr. Julian Chapman between 1990 and 1992 in the popular medical drama Casualty
before becoming Dr. Paul Dangerfield in the drama Dangerfield
from 1995 to 1997.
. He divides his time between London and India
, where he shares a 12-acre estate near Ootacamund
with John Sinclair Willis .
United Kingdom
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actor, best known for his roles in 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...
and Dangerfield
Dangerfield
Dangerfield may mean*Dangerfield , a British television series*Rover Dangerfield, an animated feature film*Dangerfield Newby, an American former slave who followed John BrownDangerfield is a surname and may refer to:...
.
Early years
Le Vaillant came to the UK aged 16. He studied acting at school in DorsetDorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
. Playwright Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn
Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...
asked if he would work as an assistant stage manager in a Scarborough Theatre production. He was to sit A Levels at Oxford, but instead took the job, which was short-lived. He studied English at St. Peter's College, Oxford. Three years later he got his equity card and an agent. He later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company
The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...
. Le Vaillant had also a role in TV-series Brideshead Revisited (1981). He then went on to play Dr. Julian Chapman between 1990 and 1992 in the popular medical drama 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...
before becoming Dr. Paul Dangerfield in the drama Dangerfield
Dangerfield
Dangerfield may mean*Dangerfield , a British television series*Rover Dangerfield, an animated feature film*Dangerfield Newby, an American former slave who followed John BrownDangerfield is a surname and may refer to:...
from 1995 to 1997.
Today
Le Vaillant lives in Brixton, South London. He is separated from his wife, Nicola Jeffries, whom he had married in January 1995. They met at a read-through, in which she played junior receptionist, Jenny, in series 7 of the BBC's CasualtyCasualty (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...
. He divides his time between London and India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, where he shares a 12-acre estate near Ootacamund
Ootacamund
Ootacamund , is a town, a municipality and the district capital of the Nilgiris district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Ootacamund is a popular hill station located in the Nilgiri Hills...
with John Sinclair Willis .