Adam Fogerty

Adam Fogerty is an English actor who made his name in sport before turning to film and television, having worked as a professional boxer and a rugby league player. Born in Halifax, he spent part of his youth on the Isle of Man, where he played rugby. In the ring he lost a six-round decision to Paul Lister in 1989 but later knocked Lister out in the eighth round, and after boxing he turned out for Halifax, Warrington and St Helens, with whom he earned a Super League medal. His screen work began in the early 1990s; he has played supporting parts in Shooting Fish, Played and Snatch, where he was the unlicensed boxer Gorgeous George. He took the part of Raw in Greenfingers (2000), and was Mouse in Mean Machine. On television he appeared as Ken Fairbrother in Heartbeat and worked on Coronation Street and Hollyoaks, and in 2012 he played Costard in Love's Labour's Lost with Northern Broadsides.