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Kathryn Williams

Who is Steve Speirs from The Tuckers? Everything about the writer and star of the new BBC Wales comedy

Steve Speirs has definitely exercised his acting chops over the past 20 years with roles in the likes of The Bill, Goodnight Sweetheart and Holby City and now he's fronting his own comedy, The Tuckers, on BBC One Wales.

Speirs has written the show, which also stars Lynn Hunter as Peggy Tucker. Lynn  is also a familiar face having roles in Russell T Davies' Banana and Cucumber, Baker Boys and Stella.

The actor stars as Glyn Tucker in his new show, who lives with his mam Peggy and two sons, Billy and Bobby.

So, where have you seen Steve before?

Lots of people will recognise the actor from his role as Big Alan on the Sky One comedy, Stella, but Steve has been in way more than the Ruth Jones hit.

As mentioned above, Steve found his acting feet in the 1990s bagging roles in The Bill, The Detectives and Dalziel and Pascoe. In the 2000s he appeared in Jonathan Creek, Doctor Who, New Tricks, Sharpe and Midsomer Murders, amongst others.

Around the same time as these TV roles he appeared in films like Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest, Eragon and Burke and Hare.

Fans of brilliant comedy will know him as Dullard in Ricky Gervais' Extras and he worked with Gervais again on the film, Cemetery Junction in 2010.

Younger viewers will know his face from the TV adaptations of David Walliams' Gangsta Granny and The Boy in the Dress.

More recently he's appeared in Big School and Upstart Crow.

What more do we know about him?

Orginally from Merthyr Tydfil, Steve is aged 54 and found a love of acting at Afon Taf High School.

Instead of following his father Vince into the Hoover Factory, he joined the National Youth Theatre Wales. Now living in Brighton with wife Joanna and their two children (he has two more from his previous marriage), Steve's surname isn't actually Speirs, it's Roberts. Speirs was a stage name taken from his favourite lecturer while he was studying drama at Loughborough Uni.

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