Phil Daniels - Class Actor

From his first notable role as a teenage actor alongside Ray Winstone in the cult film Scum, via the central character of Jimmy the mod in the mighty Quadrophenia, to the voice of Blur's Parklife, Phil Daniels has built a solid reputation as one of Britain's most talented and well-respected character actors. A graduate of the Anna Scher Theatre in the 1970s, Daniels has always stayed true to his working class roots, lending his roles a much-admired authenticity and integrity. With his distinctive voice, cheeky mistrust of authority figures and wicked sense of humour, Daniels remains a driven individualist committed to his craft. Daniels' career covers a period that has seen unprecedented change in UK society, and Class Actor, his first ever autobiography, reads like a provocative popular culture history of the past 30 years. It charts his 1960s childhood in a rundown part of London's King's X, his passion for Chelsea FC, his coming of age during punk rock, his anger and disaffection throughout the Thatcher years - perfectly realised in highly acclaimed pieces such as Mike Leigh's Meantime - through to his role as Kevin Wicks in EastEnders and his place in Britpop's hall of fame. Class Actor is a lively and entertaining insight into the passions of a unique artist who remains driven to tell 'ordinary' people's lives through drama.

CLASS ACTOR is available now from all good bookshops and online retailers

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• phil daniels
• class actor
• eastenders
• mod
• quadrophenia
• blur
• parklife
• scum
• britpop

[ST0MP0]

why have they both got those silly glasses on???

[starryian007]

It's a fucking good job the printers of Phil's book 'Class Actor' can spell. If the printers have an aversion to the letters C and L in the word 'class' there would have been big trouble :-)

[Waitingforriki]

This is so good !! Top guy is PD..My God at 5.38 he is the spitting image of Keith Moon.. (The) Who (scuse pun) incidentally I thought looked a lot like him in Quadrophenia..specially on the train during 5,15, the song btw..Wrote by Pete, sung by Rog, bassed by John & of coarse drummed by the late great keith Moon..!!

[rob1969in]

Any chance of Phil doing an audio book? I have read the book and you can almost hear Phil`s voice, it is so well written,but it would be brilliant to actually have the audiobook on my iPhone..

Watched Phil`s Inspector Hardcastle in Poirot today,first ever Poirot I have watched,Phil was fantastic, and the dialogue was brilliant, he must have improvised when Poirot says can I ask a question? ` Hardcastle `Yes certainly....are you going to answer it yourself?` pure Phil...