Charles Venn

Charles Venn is a British actor who began as a jobbing performer using the surname Venice and got his break in 2002 as Curtis Alexander in the football drama Dream Team, a two-episode booking that grew into 98 episodes. He moved to another football series, Footballers' Wives, in 2006, and on film played Warren in the horror sequel Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007) and Walter in Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009). Born in London and raised on the Mozart estate, he trained in performing arts at West London College. He is best known for 109 episodes of EastEnders as Ray Dixon from 2012 to 2013 and for playing nurse and paramedic Jacob Masters in Casualty, a role he took in 2015 and played for 318 episodes. He also appeared in the play The Brothers at the Hackney Empire and competed on Strictly Come Dancing in 2018.