Dan Tetsell (born 2 July 1974) is a British actor, comedian and writer for radio, television and stage. He has worked on a number of projects, including The Museum of Everything, That Was Then, This Is Now, Newsjack and Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections. Notably, he created CBBC series Young Dracula with Museum of Everything colleague Danny Robins. He is married to comedy actor Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he performed a one-man comedy show entitled Sins of the Grandfathers, focusing on his grandfather's Nazi past.
Notable TV roles include Brian in the BBC Two situation comedy Lab Rats and the voice of the cat Marion in the BBC Three adult puppet comedy Mongrels. He has appeared in episodes of the BBC TV comedies Miranda and Psychoville.
He starred alongside Richard Herring, Emma Kennedy, and Christian Reilly on Richard Herring's weekly podcast, As It Occurs To Me.
In 2012 he joined British soap Hollyoaks, playing new regular "cunning" solicitor Jim McGinn; he made his first appearance on 30 November. His character was killed by Fraser Black (Jesse Birdsall) in January 2014.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1998BarkingVarious roles4 episodes2000–01We Are HistoryKeiron12 episodes2005Buried Alive2007HyperdriveRobot 11 episode2007After You've GoneFairground Barker1 episode2007ExtrasExtra1 episode2008Lab RatsBrian Lalumaca6 episodes2009The Omid Djalili ShowHimself1 episode2009MirandaNaval Interviewer1 episode2010Five DaughtersJournalist2 episodes2010The Old GuysSenior Consultant1 episode2010VexedGraham1 episode2010The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd MargaretParamedic1 episode2010Hotel TrubbleFalse Vicar1 episode2010–2011MongrelsMarion (voice)Entire show2011PsychovillePhotographer1 episode2012SkinsSmithy1 episode2012StarlingsArthur1 episode2012Peep ShowRobert Grayson3 episodes2012–14HollyoaksJim McGinn111 episode2013UtopiaHeadteacher2 episodes2013The MimicChris Stubbs / Chris Potts3 episodes2015HumansSynth Salesman1 episode2016Red Dwarf XIColonel Jim Green1 episode2017Not Going OutChannel Ferries employee1 episode2018Upstart CrowEdward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford1 episode2020Truth SeekersPaul White1 episode2021The NeversPhone Line Engineer1 episodeSlicedGeoff1 episodeHitmenMascot1 episodeThe Toys That Built America Elliot Handler2 episodesHansel & Gretel: After Ever After Dad
References
External links Official website