Anthony Flanagan

Anthony Flanagan is an English actor who grew up in Stockport, Cheshire, and worked as a builder and joiner before deciding on acting after watching a friend perform at RADA. He trained at Oldham College and the Capitol Theatre in Manchester, and his first professional job was a lead role with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 2001/02 season, playing Pat Harford in Peter Whelan's A Russian in the Woods. He became widely known as the policeman Tony in Channel 4's Shameless, and his television work includes Cracker, Life on Mars, Foyle's War, Doctor Who, Survivors and Appropriate Adult, the BAFTA award-winning drama. On film he played Barry Gannon in Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009) and the Recruiting Sergeant in Private Peaceful (2012). He also returned to the stage in 2010 in a Birmingham Rep production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.