Bruce Jones

Bruce Jones is an English actor who also works as a professional wrestler and is best known for playing Les Battersby, the outspoken taxi driver on Coronation Street, from 1997 to 2007. Born in Collyhurst, Manchester, he got his first major film break in 1993 as Bob Williams in Ken Loach's Raining Stones, a film honored by the Evening Standard British Film Awards. He later had a small part in The Full Monty (1997) and appeared with Bob Hoskins in Shane Meadows's TwentyFourSeven (1998). His other screen credits include Band of Gold, Hillsborough, Heartbeat and A Touch of Frost. For Raining Stones he received a European Actors Award, and he was a co-winner of a Screen Actors Guild Award for the cast of The Full Monty. He appeared in the short film Shiney, earning a Best Supporting Actor award in 2021, and made his professional wrestling debut in 2024.