Charlie Condou

Charlie Lomax David Condou (born 8 January 1973) is an actor and writer best known for playing midwife Marcus Dent, in the long-running TV series, Coronation Street, the top soap in the UK.

Condou was listed number 11 in the World Pride Power List 2013, number 15 in the World Pride Power list 2012, number 8 in the Independent on Sunday Pink Power list 2011 and 42 in the Pride Power List 2011. He is a supporter of Manchester Pride, a Patron of the charities Diversity Role models and the Albert Kennedy Trust, and a volunteer for the Terrence Higgins Trust. Condou also works closely with Stonewall. In October 2012, he was named in the British gay publication, Attitude, as the magazine's "Man of the Year" at the inaugural Attitude awards and appeared on one of eight covers for the November 2012 issue. In 2014 he was nominated for the "Advocate for change" award at the GLAAD awards in Los Angeles.

Career

Condou's acting career began in the 1985 American TV Movie, The Key to Rebecca, as well as the 1985 movie Exploits at West Poley at the age of twelve. His TV career continued throughout his teens with appearances in such TV series as Robin of Sherwood and A Sense of Guilt. In 1987, Condou starred in the TV movie Every Breath You Take opposite British actress Connie Booth, as Tom, a child who develops diabetes. He continued in his twenties, playing a variety of roles in series like Martin Chuzzlewit, Pie in the Sky, The Bill, Peak Practice and Urban Gothic. Before his 2005 performance as Jonatton Yeah? in the Channel 4 sitcom, Nathan Barley, Condou made guest appearances in a number of British TV series including, The Infinite Worlds of HG Wells, and Midsomer Murders and had a part in the 2001 thriller Charlotte Gray where Cate Blanchett played the title role.