Dean Smith

Dean Smith is an actor, director and writer from Leeds.

As a 15 year old Dean was chosen to attend the BAFTA award winning ITV run ‘Television Workshop’.

Whilst still at the workshop Dean successfully auditioned for his professional acting debut, playing Philip Ryan for 2 series of the BBC1 drama ‘Waterloo Road’.

Since then other TV credits have included ‘The Great Train Robbery’, ‘The Village’, ‘Common’, ‘The Last Kingdom’, ‘Snatch’, ‘Coronation Street’, ‘Emmerdale’, ‘Hollyoaks’, ‘Doctors’, ‘Casualty’, ‘The Good Ship Murder’, Reunited’, ‘Being Victor’, Willis in ‘Still Open All Hours’ and William Elliot in BBC1s ‘Last Tango In Halifax’.

Film credits include ‘Sober’, ‘Awaydays’, ‘Cotton Stones’ and the lead role in Ridley Scott’s 3D short film ‘The Foundling’.

Radio credits include ‘Pulse’, ‘Stone’, ‘Here After’, ‘Brief Lives’ and JB Priestleys ‘Bright Day’ series all on BBC Radio 4 and ‘Ups & Downs’ weekly series wherever you get your podcasts.

Theatre credits include the world premier of ’Through It All Together’ at The Leeds Playhouse, ‘Schoolboy/Lover’ at The West Yorkshire Playhouse, UK tours of ‘The Holly and the Ivy’, Agatha Christie’s ‘A Murder Is Announced’, the lead in Ruth Rendell thriller ‘Gallowglass’, Tink in ‘Letter To Boddah’ and the UK tour of ‘Bridge’.

Dean was the face of Yorkshire Tea between 2015 and 2017, he is the current voice of the Army adverts and admits to being a Leeds United fan.