Actors - Ricky Tomlinson

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Ricky Tomlinson (born September 26 1939) is an English actor, born in Blackpool but a long-time resident of Liverpool.

Before turning to acting, he worked as a building site plasterer for many years, becoming involved in trade union politics and activism. In 1972, having joined the flying pickets in a building workers dispute in Shrewsbury he was sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of conspiracy, unlawful assembly and affray, as one of the so-called "Shrewsbury Two", and in 1975 disrupted the TUC conference by shouting from the wings after he had been prevented from speaking from the stage. It was revealed in 2002 that he had been monitored in the 1970s by MI5. At one time he was a National Front supporter, but is now a well-known supporter of left-wing politics.

As an actor he has found considerable success in recent years, appearing in the popular soap opera Brookside, starring as Jim Royle in the sitcom The Royle Family, and in a series of commercials for British Gas. He also played Robbie Coltrane's second boss in Cracker, his character replacing Christopher Eccleston's. He has also starred in several films, notably Mike Bassett: England Manager
. He has recently released an autobiography, entitled Ricky.

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