Leon Ockenden

Leon Ockenden is an English actor who also directs and writes, and has worked across television, film, theater and radio. He grew up in Looe, Cornwall, and left school at sixteen to train as a baker before becoming a pastry chef at the Hilton on Park Lane in London. He studied performing arts in Plymouth and later took a three-year acting course, funded by a scholarship, at London's Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 2003. He played the carpenter Callum in Tripping Over and gave his voice and likeness to the profiler Norman Jayden in the 2010 video game Heavy Rain. He was a regular on Waterloo Road as the PE teacher Hector Reid until the show was canceled in 2015, then had recurring parts, including Will Chatterton in Coronation Street. He has also been a regular chef on This Morning, and his stage work includes Flare Path and How the Other Half Loves.