Gary Beadle

Gary Beadle
Gary Beadle in 2005 Snow White, Cliffs Pavillion, Southend-on-Sea. Photo courtesy of Paul Johnson.
Born	c. 1965 (age 51–52) Bermondsey, London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1980-present
Spouse(s)	Tanya Findel-Hawkins (2003-????) Divorced
Children	2
Parent(s)	Monica Beadle
Relatives	Rikki Beadle-Blair

Gary Beadle (born 1965) is a British actor, best known for playing Paul Trueman in EastEnders and Gary Barwick in Operation Good Guys.

Beadle was raised in as one of five children in Bermondsey, South London, where he was baptised a Roman Catholic. As children, he and his elder brother Rikki produced a version of the 1976 youth musical-gangster film Bugsy Malone for Southwark London Borough Council. Directed by Rikki who starred as Talula, Gary played janitor Fizzy. Rikki tried to invite the original film's director Alan Parker to the performance, but his assistant did come, and used her connections to get Rikki, Gary and their younger sister into the community-based Anna Scher Theatre school.

After developing a love of hip hop, and especially Run-D.M.C. and the Sugarhill Gang, Beadle he moved to New York City in his early twenties. On return to London, he formed a rap group called the City Limits Crew. He also worked as a comedian, one half of an act called Swift + 2 Club Bouncers.

He also started to work as an actor, and appeared in The Young Ones (BBC 1984); the 1986 film Absolute Beginners; Jerusalem, the 1987 short film starring the Style Council pop group; Making Out in 1989-91 as Simon; the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, where he played the gay lover of Eddie's (Jennifer Saunders) ex-husband; the TV series Born To Run in 1997; the ITV police drama The Bill; BBC medical dramas Casualty (2001).