Dan Renton Skinner

Dan Renton Skinner is an English actor and comedy writer who works in stage, film and television. He was born in London, studied drama at Middlesex University and took part in Ken Campbell's 24-hour play The Warp before writing and performing with the sketch troupe The Benders. He is known for the character Angelos Epithemiou, a burger van owner he played on Shooting Stars and in his own Channel 4 series, The Angelos Epithemiou Show, work that won him Best Comedy Breakthrough Artist at the British Comedy Awards in 2011. His television work includes The Office Christmas specials, My Family, Yonderland and Tracey Ullman's Show. In film he played Simmons in High-Rise (2015), a Russian agent in Swallows and Amazons (2016) and John M. Hull in the recreations of Notes on Blindness (2016), and he appeared as Desk Sergeant Simon in The Toll (2021).