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Blake Harrison (born 22 July 1985)^{[citation needed]} is an English actor, comedian and dancer. He is best known for playing Neil Sutherland in the BAFTA-winning E4 comedy The Inbetweeners and more recently as 'Medium' Dan, in the ITV sitcom Kate & Koji since 2020.

Blake Harrison
Harrison at British Academy Television Awards 2009
Born	(1985-07-22) 22 July 1985 (age 36) Peckham, London,[citation needed] England
Occupation	Actor, comedian, dancer
Years active	2001–present
Spouse(s)	Kerry Ann Lynch ​ (m. 2016)​
Children	2

Career

Harrison starred in three series and two subsequent films of the multi-award-winning comedy The Inbetweeners. Harrison's other television work includes the BBC Three comedies Way to Go[1] and Him & Her,[2] and Comedy Central's Big Bad World,[3] The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff,[4] and The Bill.[5] Harrison also starred in all three seasons of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, created by David Cross.[6]

His theatre work includes 'End of the Pier' at the Park Theatre in 2018, Step 9 of 12 at the Trafalgar Studios, London in 2012 and The Accidental Lives of Memories at the White Bear Theatre.^{[citation needed]}

His film work includes Keeping Rosy with Maxine Peake, Madness in the Method and Re-Uniting the Rubins with Timothy Spall; he also starred in Her Eyes Met With Mine, a short film by Slightly Ajar Productions.

In 2014 he played Alfie in the ITV sitcom Edge of Heaven.

Harrison also provided the voice of Scoop in the British and American versions of the 2015 reboot of the British children's TV series Bob the Builder.[7]

He played the part of Private Pike in the 2016 film remake of Dad's Army.[5]

In 2018 he directed the award-winning short film Hooves of Clay, in which he also starred alongside Rebecca Humphries. Later he played Andrew Newton in A Very English Scandal.[8]

Harrison also scored the winning penalty goal in the charitable event Soccer Aid in 2018.[9]

In 2020 he was cast as 'Medium' Dan in ITV sitcom Kate & Koji.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Reuniting the Rubins	Nick
2011	Mancrush	Will	Short film
	The Inbetweeners Movie	Neil Sutherland
2014	Keeping Rosy	Roger
	Queen of Diamonds	Bench Guy	Short film
	The Inbetweeners 2	Neil Sutherland
2016	Dad's Army	Private Pike	[5]
2017	Bob the Builder: Mega Machines	Scoop (Voice)
2018	Agatha and the Truth of Murder	Travis Pickford	TV movie
2020	Jack and the Beanstalk: After Ever After	Dodgy Dave	TV movie[10]
2021	The Kindred	Greg Tullet

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	The Bill	Pete Monks	2 episodes[5]
2008–2010	The Inbetweeners	Neil Sutherland	18 episodes
2010–2011	Him & Her	Barney	2 episodes[2]
2010–2012; 2016	The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret	Dave	17 episodes
2011	Day of the Match Aka Halftime	Danny	Pilot
2011–2012	White Van Man	Ricky	3 episodes
2012	Bleak Old Shop of Stuff	Smalcolm	3 episodes[4]
	Comedy Showcase	Steve Lawson	Episode: "The Function Room"
	Them From That Thing	Various roles	2 episodes
2013	Way to Go	Scott	6 episodes[1]
	Big Bad World	Ben Turnbull	8 episodes[3]
2014	Edge of Heaven	Alfie	6 episodes
	Homeboys	David	Pilot
2015	Tripped	Danny	4 episodes
2015–2018	Bob the Builder	Scoop (voice)	Main role
2016	Houdini and Doyle	Lyman Biggs	Episode: "Spring-Heel'd Jack"
2017	Prime Suspect 1973	DS Spencer Gibbs	6 episodes
	Trust Me	Karl	4 episodes
2018	A Very English Scandal	Andrew Newton[11]	2 episodes
2019	Death in Paradise	Theo Roberts	Series 8 Episode 2
	The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited	Himself	1 episode (special)
2019–present	World on Fire	Stan Raddings
2020–present	Kate & Koji	'Medium' Dan
2020–2021	The Great	Colonel Svenska	3 episodes
2021	Doctor Who	Namaca	1 episode
2022	The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C	Himself	1 episode

Personal life

Harrison is married to Kerry Ann Lynch. They live in Kent and have two children, a daughter and a son.[12] Harrison is a fan of Millwall F.C.[13]

References

External links

• Blake Harrison on Twitter
• Blake Harrison at IMDb
• Blake Harrison at British Comedy Guide

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