Raymond "Ray" Fearon is an actor who has worked extensively in theatre, and is known for playing garage mechanic Nathan Harding on ITV's long-running soap opera Coronation Street.
Fearon was born in London, England, the son of West Indian parents, with 7 brothers and sisters. He was a promising junior tennis player in his early teens.
After studying drama at Rose Bruford College of speech and drama, Fearon went on to make his reputation as a stage actor, working at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre; Manchester Contact Theatre; Manchester Royal Exchange; Oxford Playhouse; Barn Theatre, Kent; The Almeida; The Crucible, Sheffield; The Donmar Warehouse; The Royal Shakespeare Theatres in Stratford and the National Theatre. He has also toured in the United States and Europe and the Far East.
He starred in Othello — opposite Gillian Kearney's Desdemona — in Liverpool at the age of 24, becoming the first black actor to play Othello on RSC main stages for over 40 years. His other early stage roles included Charles Surface in The School for Scandal; Betty/Martin in Cloud Nine; Longaville in Love's Labour's Lost; Ferdinand in The Tempest; and Pete in Blues for Mr Charlie.
i'm starting all over i began with the words but now they're gone if you all would sing along laid out the story but i should've known the story would go all wrong if the world would sing along i think that you know when it's time for you to go i'll stand and refrain never finished the end we were at the beginning when i began story was getting good when i heard your voice so clear say so long my friend i think that you know when it's time for you to go i'll stand and refrain although i never really knew you i'm prepared to show you that i'll take all the blame i'll stand and refrain shouldn't have held on so tight if i dare to beg i can't and now i see why i take all the blame why lie about the way i've been begging you to stay i think that you know when it's time for you to go i'll stand and refrain although i never really knew you i'm prepared to show you that i'll take all the blame i'll stand and refrain