Lee Ross is an English

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...

 professional actor best known for his role as Dodger in Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest

Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest

Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest was a television drama series which centered around the lives of Michael "Dodger" Dolan and his sister, Carol who were part of a large foster family in London. It was aired in the early evenings on the ITV channel's Children's ITV. There were two series of six episodes...

. He has also starred in, Press Gang

Press Gang

Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of forty-three episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993...

, Secrets & Lies, 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 most recently as Owen Turner

Owen Turner

Owen Turner is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Lee Ross. He originally appeared in the show in 2006, and then returned in 2009. His character left in 2009 after being murdered by Lucas Johnson.-Storylines:...

 in the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 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,...

 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...

.

Career

His first acting role was as Fat Sam in Mickey Dolenz' West End production of Bugsy Malone. He then went on to play Dodger in the TV series Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest

Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest

Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest was a television drama series which centered around the lives of Michael "Dodger" Dolan and his sister, Carol who were part of a large foster family in London. It was aired in the early evenings on the ITV channel's Children's ITV. There were two series of six episodes...

, which was a spin-off from the series Dramarama

Dramarama (TV series)

Dramarama is the name of a British children's' anthology series broadcast on ITV between 1983 and 1989. It tended to feature drama of a science fiction or supernatural bent. The programme was administered by Tyne Tees Television in Newcastle, who had a track-record for organising cross-franchise...

. The series ran from 1985 till 1986. He next played Kenny Phillips in Press Gang

Press Gang

Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of forty-three episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993...

 from 1989 to 1991.

He also had lead roles in two films in 1990, playing Bryan in Amongst Barbarians

Amongst Barbarians

Amongst Barbarians is* a play by British playwright Michael Wall first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester prior to a transfer to the Hampstead Theatre in London ; and...

 and Phil in Sweet Nothing. He also had small roles in Buddy's Song in 1990, playing Jason, and in the 1999 film Rogue Trader

Rogue Trader

Rogue trader can refer to*Rogue trader, person who trades financially in an unauthorised manner*Rogue Trader , the autobiography of Nick Leeson, the man who caused the collapse of Barings Bank...

, playing Danny.

He had another lead role in the movie Hard Men

Hard Men

Hard Men is a British gangster movie, originally shown 28 October 1996 at the London Film Festival. It was released in the cinemas in 1997....

 playing the part of a gangster and in 1995 he played Gumbo in the film I.D.

ID (film)

I.D. is a 1994 British film made by BBC Films about football hooliganism, directed by Philip Davis and starring Reece Dinsdale, Sean Pertwee and Warren Clarke. It is set in the 1980s, in England, mainly London, and also shot at Millmoor and Valley Parade football grounds in Rotherham and Bradford...

In 1991 he played Justin Parrish, the son of Jim Broadbent

Jim Broadbent

James "Jim" Broadbent is an English theatre, film, and television actor. He is known for his roles in Iris, Moulin Rouge!, Topsy-Turvy, Hot Fuzz, and Bridget Jones' Diary...

's character, in Work!. In 1992 and 1993 he had roles in The Guilty, Between the Lines, 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...

, Westbeach

Westbeach

Westbeach is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1993.The series was set in the fictional seaside town of Westbeach and dealt with two feuding families, the Cromers and the Prestons, who controlled the local businesses...

, 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...

 and The Upper Hand

The Upper Hand

The Upper Hand is a sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?....

. He had many more roles in the late 1990s including Trial & Retribution

Trial & Retribution

Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police proceduraltelevision drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The...

 and Jim Davidson

Jim Davidson

Jim Davidson may refer to:* Jim Davidson , American actor* Jim Davidson , American football player, played for Ohio State Buckeyes and drafted by the Buffalo Bills* Jim Davidson , Australia author, see Meanjin...

's Boobs in the Wood.

He played Paul, the boyfriend of Roxanne (Cynthia Purley's daughter) in the critically acclaimed 1996 Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh

Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s...

 film Secrets & Lies. He provided the voice for Hawkbit in all 3 television series of Watership Down

Watership Down (TV series)

Watership Down is an animated television series, adapted from the novel of the same name by Richard Adams. It was a co-production of Alltime Entertainment of the United Kingdom and Decode Entertainment of Canada, and produced by Martin Rosen, the director of the 1978 feature film...

.

He has appeared on 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...

 in many sketches, working alongside Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate is an English actress, writer, and comedian. She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and four BAFTA Awards...

 and Niky Wardley

Niky Wardley

Niky Wardley is an English actress. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.One of her best known parts was in The Catherine Tate Show as Lauren Cooper's best friend Liese Jackson, as well as other parts during the series.-Theatre:...

. He has also had many guest roles in a variety of television

Television

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 shows, including Hustle

Hustle (TV series)

Hustle is a British television drama series made by Kudos Film and Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom. Created by Tony Jordan and first broadcast in 2004, the series follows a group of con artists who specialise in "long cons" – extended deceptions which require greater commitment, but...

, Jericho, M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team, Life on Mars

Life on Mars (TV series)

Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between January 2006 and April 2007. The series combines elements of science fiction and police procedural....

 and a recurring role in Mutual Friends

Mutual Friends

Mutual Friends is a British comedy drama television series broadcast in six episodes on BBC One in 2008. The series starred Marc Warren, Alexander Armstrong, Keeley Hawes, Sarah Alexander, Claire Rushbrook, Emily Joyce, Naomi Bentley and Joshua Sarphie as a group of old friends whose lives are...

.

He played Owen Turner

Owen Turner

Owen Turner is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Lee Ross. He originally appeared in the show in 2006, and then returned in 2009. His character left in 2009 after being murdered by Lucas Johnson.-Storylines:...

 in 2006 and 2009 in the 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,...

 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...

.
He had a part in the Dutch radioplay 'De Moker' (2010) as gangster Buffoni.

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1990	Amongst Barbarians Amongst Barbarians Amongst Barbarians is* a play by British playwright Michael Wall first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester prior to a transfer to the Hampstead Theatre in London ; and...	Bryan
1991	Buddy's Song	Jason
1992	Life's a Gas		Short film
1994	The Crane	Young Man 2
1995	I.D. ID (film) I.D. is a 1994 British film made by BBC Films about football hooliganism, directed by Philip Davis and starring Reece Dinsdale, Sean Pertwee and Warren Clarke. It is set in the 1980s, in England, mainly London, and also shot at Millmoor and Valley Parade football grounds in Rotherham and Bradford...	Gumbo
	The Hurting	Bull
1996	Black Eyes	Tony
	Secrets & Lies	Paul
	Hard Men Hard Men Hard Men is a British gangster movie, originally shown 28 October 1996 at the London Film Festival. It was released in the cinemas in 1997....	Speed
	The English Patient The English Patient (film) The English Patient is a 1996 romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The film, written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture...	Spalding
1997	Metroland	Toni
	The Island on Bird Street	Freddy
1998	Vigo	Oscar Levy
1999	Five Seconds to Spare
	Dropouts
	Rogue Trader Rogue Trader Rogue trader can refer to*Rogue trader, person who trades financially in an unauthorised manner*Rogue Trader , the autobiography of Nick Leeson, the man who caused the collapse of Barings Bank...	Danny Argyropoulos
	Dreaming of Joseph Lees	Harry
2000	Jump	Willy
	Secret Society	Ken
2004	Billy's Day Out	Dave
2005	Goal	Bluto
2009	Origin	Jimmy Holmes	Post-production
2010	Centurion	Septus

TV

Year	Show	Role	Notes
1984	Dramarama Dramarama (TV series) Dramarama is the name of a British children's' anthology series broadcast on ITV between 1983 and 1989. It tended to feature drama of a science fiction or supernatural bent. The programme was administered by Tyne Tees Television in Newcastle, who had a track-record for organising cross-franchise...	Dodger	1 episode: "Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest"
1985–1986	Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest was a television drama series which centered around the lives of Michael "Dodger" Dolan and his sister, Carol who were part of a large foster family in London. It was aired in the early evenings on the ITV channel's Children's ITV. There were two series of six episodes...	Dodger	Series regular
1989–1991	Press Gang Press Gang Press Gang is a British children's television comedy-drama consisting of forty-three episodes across five series that were broadcast from 1989 to 1993...	Kenny Phillips	Series regular
1990	Sweet Nothing	Phil
1991	Work!	Justin Parrish
	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...	Mace	1 episode: "Stress Rules"
	Shrinks	Paul Carter	1 episode: "1.6"
1992	The Guilty	Tommy
	Between the Lines	Michael Brandell	1 episode: "Out of the Game"
	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...	Dave	1 episode: "Money Talks"
1993	Westbeach Westbeach Westbeach is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1993.The series was set in the fictional seaside town of Westbeach and dealt with two feuding families, the Cromers and the Prestons, who controlled the local businesses...	Chris Cromer	Recurring
	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...	Neil Simpson	1 episode: "Trust"
	The Upper Hand The Upper Hand The Upper Hand is a sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?....	Gery Grant	1 episode: "The Price Is Right"
1995	Shine on Harvey Moon Shine on Harvey Moon Shine on Harvey Moon is a British television series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian....	Roy	Recurring
1996	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...	Ray	1 episode: "Land of Hopes"
1997	Trial & Retribution Trial & Retribution Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police proceduraltelevision drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The...	Peter James	2 episodes: "1.1" and "1.2"
1998	Only Love	Technician
1999	Playing the Field Playing the Field Playing the Field is a BBC television drama series following the lives of the Castlefield Blues, a fictitious female football team from South Yorkshire.-Outline:...	Ryan Pratt	1 episode: "2.2"
	Dockers	Andy Walton
	Tube Tales Tube Tales Tube Tales is a collection of nine short films based on the true-life experiences of London Underground passengers as submitted to Time Out magazine. The stories were scripted and filmed independently of each other...	Male Reveller
	Watership Down Watership Down (TV series) Watership Down is an animated television series, adapted from the novel of the same name by Richard Adams. It was a co-production of Alltime Entertainment of the United Kingdom and Decode Entertainment of Canada, and produced by Martin Rosen, the director of the 1978 feature film...	Hawkbit	13 part series
2001	Waking the Dead Waking the Dead (TV series) Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...	Christopher Redford	2 episodes: "Every Breath You Take" (parts 1 & 2)
2003	Where the Heart Is Where the Heart Is Where the Heart Is may refer to:In film:* Where the Heart Is , a film starring Dabney Coleman and Uma Thurman* Where the Heart Is , a film starring Ashley Judd and Natalie PortmanIn television:...	Gary Frasier	1 episode: "The Need of You"
2004	Dunkirk	Sgt Moore
	Hustle Hustle (TV series) Hustle is a British television drama series made by Kudos Film and Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom. Created by Tony Jordan and first broadcast in 2004, the series follows a group of con artists who specialise in "long cons" – extended deceptions which require greater commitment, but...	Ray Fordham	1 episode: "The Last Gamble"
2004–2007	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...	Paul	Series regular
2005	M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team	Andy Nash	1 episode: "2.4"
	Jericho	Louis	4 part series
2006	Life on Mars Life on Mars (TV series) Life on Mars is a British television series broadcast on BBC One between January 2006 and April 2007. The series combines elements of science fiction and police procedural....	DCI Litton	2 episodes: "1.3" and "1.6"
	The Family Man	Gary
2008	Mutual Friends Mutual Friends Mutual Friends is a British comedy drama television series broadcast in six episodes on BBC One in 2008. The series starred Marc Warren, Alexander Armstrong, Keeley Hawes, Sarah Alexander, Claire Rushbrook, Emily Joyce, Naomi Bentley and Joshua Sarphie as a group of old friends whose lives are...	Harry Seed	6 part series; recurring
2009	Moses Jones Moses Jones Moses Jones is a three-part BBC Television drama series written by Joe Penhall, directed by Michael Offer and produced by Cameron Roach that was first broadcast on BBC Two in February 2009.-Synopsis:...	Mick Mahoney	3 part series; recurring
2007 & 2009	Robin Hood	Sir Jasper	2 episodes: "Walkabout" and "Total Eclipse"
2006 & 2009	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...	Owen Turner Owen Turner Owen Turner is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Lee Ross. He originally appeared in the show in 2006, and then returned in 2009. His character left in 2009 after being murdered by Lucas Johnson.-Storylines:...	Series regular
2010	The Persuasionists The Persuasionists The Persuasionists is a sitcom broadcast on BBC Two set in the world of advertising starring Iain Lee, Simon Farnaby, Adam Buxton, Jarred Christmas and Daisy Haggard, and featuring Natalie Gumede . It was the sitcom writing debut for Jonathan Thake, best known until then for ‘the slag of all...	Cockney Jim	1 episode: "Cockney Cheese"
	Ashes to Ashes Ashes to Ashes (TV series) Ashes to Ashes is a British science fiction and police procedural drama television series, serving as the sequel to Life on Mars.The series began airing on BBC One in February 2008. A second series began broadcasting in April 2009...	DCI Litton	1 episode: "3.5"
2011	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...	Boatswain	1 episode: "The Curse of the Black Spot The Curse of the Black Spot "The Curse of the Black Spot" is the third episode of the sixth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Written by Stephen Thompson, and directed by Jeremy Webb, the episode was first broadcast on 7 May 2011 on BBC One in the United Kingdom and on BBC America in the... "

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