Frankie Fitzgerald
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Career
Fitzgerald trained at The Webber Douglas Academy of Performing arts, completing his three year course in 2006. His career however started much earlier when he landed his first professional role at just 15. He played Ashley Cotton in EastEndersEastEnders
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 2000 and since has appeared as Jason Porter, the main character of the final series of the drama Dream Team
Dream Team (TV series)
Dream Team is a British television series produced by Hewland International which aired on Sky1 and Sky3 from 1997 to 2007; it chronicled the on-field and off-field affairs of the fictional Harchester United Football Club....
on Sky1.
In late 2008, Fitzgerald appeared in ITV1
ITV1
ITV1 is a generic brand that is used by twelve franchises of the British ITV Network in the English regions, Wales, southern Scotland , the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. The ITV1 brand was introduced by Carlton and Granada in 2001, alongside the regional identities of their...
's He Kills Coppers. He appeared as a talking head on December 30, 2008 episode of EastEnders Revealed: Nick Cotton Returns. He appeared in Casualty as Russell, and in Troy, where he played Aeneas
Aeneas
Aeneas , in Greco-Roman mythology, was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed. The journey of Aeneas from Troy , which led to the founding a hamlet south of...
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Most recently he has opened a very successful stage school with his partner named 'Centre Stage Theatre Academy' in Bromley and also at Gravesend's Woodville Halls, Centre Stage also offers free workshops for schools and runs extra curricular clubs before and after school, across the south east. Over 100 budding performers who either want to go into the business, to build confidence or just for fun are taught every week. Classes are available for children from four years old, in acting singing and dancing.