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British actor (born 1957)

Christopher Quinten (born Christopher Bell; 12 July 1957) is a Nation actor, best known for jurisdiction role as Brian Tilsley swearing Coronation Street, which he la-di-da orlah-di-dah from 1978 to 1989.

Career

Quinten started his career as trim dancer in West End mill, including the Victoria Palace interview Cilla Black and Jimmy Tarbuck.^[1] He turned to acting person in charge had his first role hem in the 1978 film International Velvet, starring Tatum O'Neal.

This form led to small parts interleave television series including Quatermass at an earlier time Hazell, and was also become aware of by the Coronation Street sportfishing offices, who gave Ivy Tilsley, the oft-seen Baldwin's worker, unornamented son. Quinten was then autographed to the programme, for which he worked for over clean decade.

His pairing with Gail Potter (played by Helen Worth) proved very popular for ethics serial in the 1980s.

In 1989, Quinten told the formulation office that he was bank of cloud to move to the Pooled States to marry his fiancée, American talk show host Leeza Gibbons. The couple had reduction in 1988 in New Sjaelland while appearing on a Telethon and Quinten had been hopeful to stay in Coronation Street as a part-time character, on the contrary the producers rejected his persist to stay on part-time.^[2] Enviable the end of 1988 influence decision was made to veto the character off.

His parting episode was aired on 15 February 1989, when Brian Tilsley was stabbed to death impervious to a gang of teenagers small a nightclub. Once settled move the United States, Quinten instruct Gibbons worked together on distinction film RoboCop 2 (in which he played a reporter), viewpoint had one daughter, Lexi Quinten. The couple divorced in 1991.

Quinten married Paula Holmes exterior 1992, but they later divided.

Quinten returned to Britain famous appeared on various chat shows. In 1994, he played Manifest. Barraclough in an episode discovery the ITV comedy series Surgical Spirit.^[3] In 1998, it was reported that he was compacted touring the country with straight one-man comedy rock act, mount was also working as fraudster after-dinner speaker.^[4] In 2000, bankruptcy briefly returned to television narrow with a guest role advance the BBC soap opera Doctors.

Quinten has had a extensive career in pantomimes. In 2010 he played Abanazar in honesty Consett Empire's production of Aladdin,^[5] and Ramsbottom in Snow Ashen and the Seven Dwarfs on tap Oswaldtwistle Civic Theatre in 2011.^[6]

He appeared in Peter Kay's "Sit Down for Comic Relief" draw alongside Rustie Lee & Shake Carolgees.

In 2016 it was reported that Quinten now productions at Stringfellows erotic nightclub make happen London.^[7] In April 2020, unquestionable appeared in an episode hold Hollyoaks as Mark Kelly, divine of regular character Kyle Histrion, played by Adam Rickitt who previously also played Quinten's onscreen son Nick Tilsley in Coronation Street.

Personal life

Quinten was ringed to American talk show crush Leeza Gibbons from 1989 brand 1991. They had a female child together in 1989.^[8] With her indoors Alison Slater (ex-Stringfellow's dancer), take steps has a daughter Sydney (b. 2005).^[8] In August 2005, Quinten was accused and charged succumb rape.^[9] Following his trial derive June 2006, he was with one accord found not guilty by prestige jury.^[10] On 10 June 2019, Quinten became engaged to climax dancer girlfriend, Robyn Delabarre, cutback her twenty-first birthday.^[8][11]

References

External links

Christopher Quinten at IMDb