Owen Aaronovitch is an English

English people

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 actor

Actor

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, known for portraying Jon Lindsay 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...

.

Background

Aaronovitch was born in Parliament Hill Fields, London

Parliament Hill, London

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. He is the son of the late economist

Economics

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 and Communist

Communism

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 Sam Aaronovitch

Sam Aaronovitch

Sam Aaronovitch was a British economist, academic, working class intellectual and senior member of the Communist Party of Great Britain....

, brother of the journalist

Journalist

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 David Aaronovitch

David Aaronovitch

David Aaronovitch is a British author, broadcaster, and journalist. He is a regular columnist for The Times, and author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country and Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History...

 and writer

Writer

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 Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Denis Aaronovitch is a London-born British writer who has worked on television series including Doctor Who, Casualty, Jupiter Moon and Dark Knight...

. Aaronovitch attended Dame Alice Owen's School

Dame Alice Owen's School

Dame Alice Owen's School is a mixed voluntary aided secondary school in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England, founded in the London Borough of Islington.-Admissions:...

 in Islington

Islington

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, and at the age of eighteen moved to Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne

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 to study creative arts.

Aaronovitch is married to actress Fiona Bruce, with whom he has two children, Frankie and Ruben.

Career

Aaronovitch made his professional debut at Belgrade Theatre

Belgrade Theatre

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 in Coventry

Coventry

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. His theatre work includes The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

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, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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, Pinocchio

Pinocchio

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, The Waltz and Red Dust Blue Dreams.

Aaronovitch played the role of fake airline pilot

Aviator

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 Jon Lindsay, the con man

Confidence trick

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 responsible for Deirdre Barlow

Deirdre Barlow

Deirdre Anne Barlow is a long-standing fictional character in the UK television ITV Granada soap opera, Coronation Street...

's imprisonment, 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...

from 1997 to 1998. His other television credits include Prime Suspect, A Touch of Frost

A Touch of Frost (TV series)

A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....

, Reckless

Reckless (TV serial)

Reckless is a British television serial written by Paul Abbott. Produced by Granada Television for the ITV network, it aired in six parts in the UK in 1997.A two-hour sequel, Reckless: The Movie, was shown in 1998....

, 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 Doctors.

Aaronovitch also portrayed Oleg Gan

Olag Gan

Olag Gan is a fictional character from the British science fiction television series Blake's 7, played by David Jackson ....

 in the 2006 audio revival of Blake's 7.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Prime Suspect	Tony - Prime Suspect 1 (1991)	Crime drama Police procedural The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...
1994	A Touch of Frost A Touch of Frost (TV series) A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....	Man with Dog - Stranger in the House	Police procedural Police procedural The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...
1995	Cracker Cracker (UK TV series) Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. The series is centered on a criminal psychologist , Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane. Set in Manchester, it consists of three series which were...	Charnock - Brotherly Love (1995)	Crime drama Police procedural The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...
1996	A Touch of Frost A Touch of Frost (TV series) A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....	Fire Officer - Paying the Price (1996)	Police procedural Police procedural The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...
	Heartbeat	Clive Kenway - Obsessions (1996)	Period crime drama Police procedural The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...
	Hillsborough		Television film Television movie A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...
1997	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...	Jon Lindsay (1997–1998)	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,...
	Reckless Reckless (TV serial) Reckless is a British television serial written by Paul Abbott. Produced by Granada Television for the ITV network, it aired in six parts in the UK in 1997.A two-hour sequel, Reckless: The Movie, was shown in 1998....	Cab Driver	Television serial Serial (radio and television) Serials are series of television programs and radio programs that rely on a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode by episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the full run of the series, which distinguishes them from...
2003	Holby City Holby City Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...	Jonathan Collinson - Private Lives (2003)	Medical drama Medical drama A medical drama is a television program, in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment.In the United States, most medical episodes are one hour long and, more often than not, are set in a hospital. Most current medical Dramatic programming go beyond the...
2004	The Courtroom The Courtroom The Courtroom is a British legal drama created by Phil Redmond, which aired between June and December 2004.The programme was notable for starring many former British soap stars, particularly those who starred in Redmond's other productions Brookside and Hollyoaks....	Gary Cullen - Like a Robot (2004)	Legal drama Legal drama A legal drama is a work of dramatic fiction about crime and civil litigation. Subtypes of legal dramas include courtroom dramas and legal thrillers, and come in all forms, including novels, television shows, and films. Legal drama sometimes overlap with crime drama, most notably in the case of Law...
2008	Doctors	Marvin Elliot - Stand Up and Be Counted (2008)	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,...

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