David Easter
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| David Easter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 November 1959 Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse(s) | Denise Welch (m. 1985-88; divorced) |
David Easter (born 11 November 1959 in Eastleigh, Hampshire) is an English actor.
Easter made his acting debut in the 1979 disco film The Music Machine. From 1984 to 1987 he played Pat Hancock on the soap opera Brookside. He has also acted in many theatre productions [1]
In the 1991 London Palladium revival production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat he played the role of Pharaoh & Levi alongside Jason Donovan's Joseph and Linzi Hateley's Narrator. He is best known for his role as Pete Callan in the television soap opera Family Affairs from 1997 to 2005.
On 21 November 2013, he made his first appearance in the ITV soap, Emmerdale. His character is a businessman named Gil Keane, who deals with Declan Macey's growing financial problems.
He has also guest starred in episodes of Birds of a Feather, The Bill, Holby City and Doctors. In 2011 he appeared in the films How to Stop Being a Loser and Kill Keith.
He joined the cast of Channel 4 soap, Hollyoaks in May 2015, as the mystery husband of bipolar sufferer, Cindy Cunningham (Stephanie Waring). They married during one of her bipolar episodes and he arrived asking for a divorce, on her wedding day to Dirk Savage (David Kennedy).
Personal life
He was married to Denise Welch from 1985 to 1988.
