Nigel Pivaro
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Nigel Pivaro is an English
journalist who as an actor was best known for playing Terry Duckworth
, the son of Vera
and Jack Duckworth
in Coronation Street
.
, Pivaro made his acting debut in "Short of Mutiny" at the Theatre Royal Stratford East
, Stratford
, London in February 1983.
Later in August of that year he won the part of Terry Duckworth in the long-running British
soap opera
Coronation Street. Nigel left the soap in 1987, after 4 years of playing the role and returned in 1992 making many re-appearances throughout the 1990s and early 2000s with his stints lasting a week, month or a few months. His last appearance in the series was on January 28, 2008 when his character attended the funeral of his mother Vera. Apart from Coronation Street Pivaro made a guest appearance in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
and Expert Witness. He appeared in "The Sunny side of the Street"' for Channel Four and also made a cameo appearance in the British film 24 Hour Party People
'
He has acted in theatre productions in his time away from Coronation Street including Wuthering Heights, What the Butler Saw, A Taste of Honey, The Tempest, Greek, Funny Peculiar, A View from the Bridge and Up and Under, his most recent tour was alongside fellow soap actor John Altman, (Nick Cotton
in EastEnders
), in the John Godber
stage play Bouncersin 2003. In 1987, he won Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1st with the play "No Further Cause for Concern".
In 2006 he became a journalist after a spell working for the Manchester Evening News
went to work for the Tameside
Reporter, based in Stalybridge
, Tameside
. He now works as a free lance journalist contributing regularly to the UK Daily Star Sunday
and Daily Star
newspaper.
At the Daily Star he shared a desk with former News of the World
Royal Editor, Clive Goodman
.
He has also been published in the Daily Mirror and Daily Express
newspapers.
He has also written and presented documentary films for the BBC 'Inside Out' series.
"Regeneration Game"(broadcast September 2007) a film which challenged the Government backed Housing Market Renewal programme criticising its treatment of residents who were forced out of their neighbourhoods to make way for more affluent people, was recently short listed for a Royal Television Society award in the best Current Affairs programme category.
Most recently Pivaro wrote and presented "The Battle for St. Michael's", for BBC 'Inside Out' broadcast in October 2009.
On December 9, 2008, along side Editor Stephen Kingston he collected an award from the Plain English Society on Behalf of "The Salford Star" a magazine to which he contributes, following the magazine being voted "Best Regional Newspaper".
In January 2010 Pivaro appeared alongside Kingston on BBC Newsnight in a film on the effects of Regeneration in Salford.
In October 2010 Pivaro was invited to present a lecture at the University of Wolverhampton
on his experiences while reporting on regeneration. The lecture was subsequently published in the academic magazine Inder Science.
In July he participated in a special Radio 4 Today programme
with Evan Davis where he represented a lone voice critical of the Media City development at Salford Quays
calling it a 'Cathedral of Corporatism' with few opportunities for locals and small business.
with an Honours degree in Contemporary Military and International History.
In 2006, Nigel graduated from the University of Wales
in Aberystwyth
with an MSc
in Social Science and Economics
, specialising in terrorism
and international relations
.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
journalist who as an actor was best known for playing Terry Duckworth
Terry Duckworth
Terrence Edgar "Terry" Duckworth is a fictional character from the soap opera Coronation Street, played by Nigel Pivaro. He was introduced as the son of popular characters Jack and Vera Duckworth, making his on-screen debut on August 1, 1983. Terry has three sons: Paul, Tommy, and Brad...
, the son of Vera
Vera Duckworth
Veronica "Vera" Duckworth , played by Elizabeth Dawn, is a fictional character on the British soap opera Coronation Street, first appearing in August 1974 and last appearing in episode 6,734 on 18 January 2008, where the character peacefully died in her sleep at the age of 70 from heart failure...
and Jack Duckworth
Jack Duckworth
John Harold "Jack" Duckworth is a long-standing fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a long-running serial drama about working class life in the fictional town of Weatherfield. He is played by actor William Tarmey. The character debuted onscreen during the episode...
in Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
.
Career
Pivaro was born in Manchester, England. After attending RADARada
Rada is the term for "council" or "assembly"borrowed by Polish from the Low Franconian "Rad" and later passed into the Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian languages....
, Pivaro made his acting debut in "Short of Mutiny" at the Theatre Royal Stratford East
Theatre Royal Stratford East
The Theatre Royal Stratford East is a theatre in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham. Since 1953, it has been the home of the Theatre Workshop company.-History:...
, Stratford
Stratford, London
Stratford is a place in the London Borough of Newham, England. It is located east northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the major centres identified in the London Plan. It was historically an agrarian settlement in the ancient parish of West Ham, which transformed into an industrial suburb...
, London in February 1983.
Later in August of that year he won the part of Terry Duckworth in the long-running British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Coronation Street. Nigel left the soap in 1987, after 4 years of playing the role and returned in 1992 making many re-appearances throughout the 1990s and early 2000s with his stints lasting a week, month or a few months. His last appearance in the series was on January 28, 2008 when his character attended the funeral of his mother Vera. Apart from Coronation Street Pivaro made a guest appearance in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a genteel British crime–comedy drama television series which aired from 1996 to 1998 on BBC One. The series starred Patricia Routledge as the title character , Derek Benfield as her patient husband Robert, Dominic Monaghan as their lodger Geoffrey Shawcross...
and Expert Witness. He appeared in "The Sunny side of the Street"' for Channel Four and also made a cameo appearance in the British film 24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom...
'
He has acted in theatre productions in his time away from Coronation Street including Wuthering Heights, What the Butler Saw, A Taste of Honey, The Tempest, Greek, Funny Peculiar, A View from the Bridge and Up and Under, his most recent tour was alongside fellow soap actor John Altman, (Nick Cotton
Nick Cotton
Nick Cotton is a fictional character from the British soap opera EastEnders played by John Altman on a recurring basis from the soap's debut episode in February 1985, through to his last appearance to date in 2009. Nick is the son of characters Charlie and Dot Cotton, and the father of Ashley and...
in EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
), in the John Godber
John Godber
John Harry Godber is an English dramatist, known mainly for his observational comedies. In the 'Plays and Players Yearbook' for 1993 he was calculated as the third most performed playwright in the UK behind William Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn. He has a wife and 2 children.-Biography:Godber was...
stage play Bouncersin 2003. In 1987, he won Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1st with the play "No Further Cause for Concern".
In 2006 he became a journalist after a spell working for the Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
The Manchester Evening News is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in the United Kingdom. It is published every day except Sunday and is owned by Trinity Mirror plc following its sale by Guardian Media Group in early 2010. It has an average daily circulation of 90,973 copies...
went to work for the Tameside
Tameside
The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after the River Tame which flows through the borough and spans the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge. Its western...
Reporter, based in Stalybridge
Stalybridge
Stalybridge is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 22,568. Historically a part of Cheshire, it is east of Manchester city centre and northwest of Glossop. With the construction of a cotton mill in 1776, Stalybridge became one of...
, Tameside
Tameside
The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after the River Tame which flows through the borough and spans the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge. Its western...
. He now works as a free lance journalist contributing regularly to the UK Daily Star Sunday
Daily Star Sunday
The Daily Star Sunday is a weekly tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom. It was launched as a sister title to the Daily Star on 15 September 2002....
and Daily Star
Daily Star
The Daily Star is a popular daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom. It first published on 2 November 1978, and was the first new national paper to be launched since the Daily Worker in 1930...
newspaper.
At the Daily Star he shared a desk with former News of the World
News of the World
The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English language circulations...
Royal Editor, Clive Goodman
Clive Goodman
Clive Goodman is a former royal editor and reporter for the News of the World. He was arrested in August 2006 and jailed in January 2007 for intercepting mobile phone messages involving members of the Royal Household.Goodman initially worked as a journalist on Nigel Dempster's gossip column in the...
.
He has also been published in the Daily Mirror and Daily Express
Daily Express
The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...
newspapers.
He has also written and presented documentary films for the BBC 'Inside Out' series.
"Regeneration Game"(broadcast September 2007) a film which challenged the Government backed Housing Market Renewal programme criticising its treatment of residents who were forced out of their neighbourhoods to make way for more affluent people, was recently short listed for a Royal Television Society award in the best Current Affairs programme category.
Most recently Pivaro wrote and presented "The Battle for St. Michael's", for BBC 'Inside Out' broadcast in October 2009.
On December 9, 2008, along side Editor Stephen Kingston he collected an award from the Plain English Society on Behalf of "The Salford Star" a magazine to which he contributes, following the magazine being voted "Best Regional Newspaper".
In January 2010 Pivaro appeared alongside Kingston on BBC Newsnight in a film on the effects of Regeneration in Salford.
In October 2010 Pivaro was invited to present a lecture at the University of Wolverhampton
University of Wolverhampton
The University of Wolverhampton is a British university located on four campuses across the West Midlands and Shropshire. The city campus is located in Wolverhampton city centre with a second campus at Compton Park, Wolverhampton; a third in Walsall and a fourth in Telford...
on his experiences while reporting on regeneration. The lecture was subsequently published in the academic magazine Inder Science.
In July he participated in a special Radio 4 Today programme
Today programme
Today is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, now broadcast from 6.00 am to 9.00 am Monday to Friday, and 7.00 am to 9.00 am on Saturdays. It is also the most popular programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks...
with Evan Davis where he represented a lone voice critical of the Media City development at Salford Quays
Salford Quays
Salford Quays is an area of Salford in Greater Manchester, England, near the end of the Manchester Ship Canal. Previously the site of Manchester Docks, it became one of the first and largest urban regeneration projects in the United Kingdom following the closure of the dockyards in...
calling it a 'Cathedral of Corporatism' with few opportunities for locals and small business.
Personal life
Pivaro graduated in 2003 from the University of SalfordUniversity of Salford
The University of Salford is a campus university based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about west of Manchester city centre, on the A6, opposite the former home of the physicist, James Prescott Joule and the Working Class...
with an Honours degree in Contemporary Military and International History.
In 2006, Nigel graduated from the University of Wales
University of Wales
The University of Wales was a confederal university founded in 1893. It had accredited institutions throughout Wales, and formerly accredited courses in Britain and abroad, with over 100,000 students, but in October 2011, after a number of scandals, it withdrew all accreditation, and it was...
in Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth is a historic market town, administrative centre and holiday resort within Ceredigion, Wales. Often colloquially known as Aber, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol....
with an MSc
MSC
- Computers:* Mario Strikers Charged* Microsoft Common Console Document, file for the Microsoft Management Console* Microelectronics Support Centre* Microsoft Corporation* MIDI Show Control* Message Sequence Chart...
in Social Science and Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, specialising in terrorism
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
and international relations
International relations
International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...
.
Filmography
- 24 Hour Party People24 Hour Party People24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom...
(2002) .... Actor at Granada - Expert Witness (1996) .... Colin Wardle, 'Sunny Side of the Street' Dad (1997)
- Hetty Wainthrop Investigates (1996) .... Sergant Pearce
- Coronation StreetCoronation StreetCoronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
(1983–1987, 1988, 1992–1993, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001–2002, 2008) .... Terry Duckworth