Lee Ingleby

Lee Ingleby is an English actor, born in Burnley and raised in nearby Brierfield, who trained at LAMDA after a drama teacher pointed him toward professional theater. He came to attention as the young lead in the BBC Two miniseries Nature Boy (2000), then played Smike in the television film The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001) and wrote the short film Cracks in the Ceiling. His films include Ever After (1998), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Borstal Boy (2000). On television he played DS John Bacchus in Inspector George Gently from 2007 to 2017 and Paul Hughes in The A Word from 2016 to 2020, and he was the voice of Bob the Builder from 2015 to 2018. His stage roles include Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Katurian in The Pillowman.