Dean Cook is a British

United Kingdom

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 actor, best known for playing Ashley Thompson on the sitcom Time Gentlemen Please

Time Gentlemen Please

Time Gentlemen Please is a British sitcom. Commissioned by Sky One, it was primarily written by Richard Herring and Al Murray and ran for two series between 2000 and 2002.- Premise and characters :...

, and for his appearance in the 2000 children's fantasy adventure, The Little Vampire

The Little Vampire

The film version of the story was released in 2000 and stars Jonathan Lipnicki, Richard E. Grant, Jim Carter, and Alice Krige.-Plot:Tony Thompson is an only child whose family has moved to Scotland from California. In the new country, he has no friends, and he is picked on and beaten up by bullies...

. He also appeared in The Adventures of Pinocchio as "Boy with Red Basketball".

Career

Cook began his acting career in 1995 at the age of 10. He had small parts in several shows during the next few years, including Bodyguards

Bodyguards (TV series)

Bodyguards is a British television series that focuses on the cases of a specialized bodyguard unit called the Close Protection Group in service of the UK government.The lead cast members were Sean Pertwee as Ian Worrell and Louise Lombard as Liz Shaw...

, Lift, Highlander: The Series

Highlander: The Series

Highlander: The Series is a fantasy-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander. It was an offshoot and another alternate sequel of the 1986 feature film with a twist: Connor MacLeod did not win the prize and Immortals still exist post-1985...

and the CITV children's comedy series Snap. In 2000 he landed the role of Gregory Sackville-Bagg in the film The Little Vampire

The Little Vampire

The film version of the story was released in 2000 and stars Jonathan Lipnicki, Richard E. Grant, Jim Carter, and Alice Krige.-Plot:Tony Thompson is an only child whose family has moved to Scotland from California. In the new country, he has no friends, and he is picked on and beaten up by bullies...

. He also starred in a Yellow Pages advert.

After a successful performance in the film he continued to receive roles on British television. He played Gary in three episodes of Time Gentlemen Please the same year. He also made six appearances as the character Dan in the CBBC

CBBC

CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...

 drama The Queen's Nose

The Queen's Nose

The Queen's Nose is a book, written by Dick King-Smith, that was adapted into a successful BBC television series.-The book:The book by Dick King Smith features the story of Harmony Parker, a 10 year old girl who wants an animal of her own but is not allowed by her parents who think they are dirty...

. In 2002 he featured in several episodes of both 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 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...

. His most recent roles have been in My Dad's the Prime Minister

My Dad's the Prime Minister

My Dad's the Prime Minister is a British sitcom written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It centres around the life of the Prime Minister, his family and his spin doctor...

(2004), Powers

Powers (TV series)

Powers is a United Kingdom television series first broadcast in 2004 on BBC One. The series was created by Jim Eldridge. It was promoted as a children's version of The X-Files, although many regarded it as a successor to The Tomorrow People. Powers ran for one 13-episode season, and was also...

(2004) and Bear Behaving Badly

Bear Behaving Badly

Bear Behaving Badly is a British children's television comedy programme, first broadcast in 2007. Broadcast on BBC One, BBC Two and the CBBC Channel, the programme is centered around the daily adventures of Barney Harwood, his pet bear Nev, his koala friend Crazy Keith and the caretaker of the...

(2007).

Other work

Dean Cook has been featured in many adverts for lots of different companies such as AOL

AOL

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 and McDonalds. He is on the books of MOT junior, a modeling company, as of June 2009.

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