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Neil Pearson's Background
Last updated 27th March 1997
Maintained by Carole Goble.
Corrections or information to carole@cs.man.ac.uk.
Neil was born on 27th April 1959 in Battersea, South London, the eldest of 3
children (a sister and a brother). His father left home when he was 5 years old
and he didn't see him again until he was 18, so he was raised by his Mum,
Maureen, a secretary. Fired up by Jennings books set in English public schools,
he developed a determination to attend a boarding school - he attended
Woolverstone boarding school from 11 years onwards, possible because of a
scholarship scheme for bright lads from disadvantaged backgrounds run by the
ILEA. He made a short piece on this for the BBC series "One Foot In The
Past". Here he developed his love of acting (starring in A Man for All
Seasons and The Tempest) and he has never wanted to do anything else. He went
straight on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, got
his first professional engagement in Manchester in 1980 and has hardly been out
of work since. He doesn't like Manchester much :-( but loves Liverpool. Weird.
After his big break in Drop The Dead
Donkey, he really made his mark in the highly acclaimed and award winning Between The Lines.
He seems to have cornered the market in hunky bad boys who get their kit off a
lot.
Neil is single and lives alone in South London. He is cagey about his
personal life, but he had affair with co-star Siobhan Redmond (from BTL)
and he lived for 5 years with the actress Frances Barber, breaking up
in 1992. He recently had a relationship with his DTDD co-star Susannah Doyle (Joy) but that
finished late 1996. Neil attended the premiere of Fever Pitch on 26th March 97
with a rather nice young dusky lady in a velvety blue cocktail frock.
He has strong political views, is a member of the Labour Party and is as much
at a loss about their policies as the rest of us. A Spurs fan he claims
that his main interest outside acting is travelling and that acting is merely a
means to finance this. He is reported as an independent, disciplined and
determined person. He is wonderfully kind and charming to his fans anyway, (he
bought me a drink on my birthday) and is a thoroughly decent bloke, not a luvvie
all! And those blue eyes!!!!