Dexter Fletcher

Dexter Fletcher (born 31 January 1966) is an English actor and director. He appeared in Guy Ritchie\'s film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, crime comedy Smoking Guns as well as television roles in such shows as the comedy-drama Hotel Babylon, the HBO series Band of Brothers, and earlier in his career, the children\'s show Press Gang, and the film Bugsy Malone. He also had a short-lived stint at presenting the third series of Channel 4\'s GamesMaster that aired between 1993 and 1994. Fletcher made his directorial debut with Wild Bill (2011), and also directed Sunshine On Leith (2013) and Eddie the Eagle (2016). Fletcher replaced Bryan Singer as director of Bohemian Rhapsody, a film about the band Queen, released in October 2018; due to DGA rules, he will be uncredited. In 2017, he starred in horror/comedy "Double Date".\n', ' Fletcher trained at the Anna Scher Theatre drama club. Fletcher\'s first film part was as Baby Face in Bugsy Malone (1976). He made his stage début the following year in a production of A Midsummer Night\'s Dream. As a child actor, Fletcher was a regular feature in British productions in the early 1980s such as The Long Good Friday, The Elephant Man, and The Bounty. As an adult, he has appeared on television as rebellious teenager Spike Thomson in Press Gang and also Murder Most Horrid (1991) with Dawn French. His American accent had some fans convinced that he actually is an American. He has starred in the films Caravaggio (1986), The Rachel Papers (1989), Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Layer Cake (2004), AffirmFilm\'s Solomon as Rehoboam, and Universal\'s Doom as a communications officer nicknamed "Pinky".\n', ' On television, he has appeared in the major HBO drama, Band of Brothers and in a supporting role in the BBC One historical drama The Virgin Queen (US PBS 2005, UK 2006). He also appeared in Kylie Minogue\'s 1997 released music video for "Some Kind of Bliss". Fletcher has starred on BBC One in a series based on the Imogen Edwards-Jones\'s book, Hotel Babylon which ran for four series before being cancelled in 2009. He also appeared in one episode, "The Booby and the Beast", of BBC\'s Robin Hood series 2 as the German Count Friedrich and in the 2008 radio series The Way We Live Right Now.\n', '