Danny Dyer

At 46 years old, Danny Dyer has this physical status:

Daniel John Dyer (born 24 July 1977) is an English actor who has appeared on television, film, and theatre.

Dyer's breakthrough came as Moff in Human Traffic, as Billy the Lime in Mean Machine, and as Tommy Johnson in The Football Factory.

Following the success of The Football Factory, Dyer was often stereotyped in "hard-man" roles, but it was this image that allowed him to debut The Real Football Factories International, Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men, and Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men.

Dyer has worked in theatre, having appeared in three plays directed by Harold Pinter, with whom he had a close friendship. In 2013, he was announced as the latest addition to the cast of EastEnders, playing Mick Carter, the Queen Victoria's most recent landlord.

He had previously turned down a role in 2009, and Straight Up, his autobiography, said he would not join the cast until he was "fat, bald, and fifty."

He received the Serial Drama Performance Award at the National Television Awards in 2015, 2016, and 2019. He has also performed Kent Paul for the Grand Theft Auto gaming franchise, specifically GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas; Stuart Heritage in The Guardian wrote that Dyer has "become the byword for low-budget, no-quality British-trash cinema."

Early life

Danial John Dyer was born in London's Custom House neighborhood on July 24, 1977, the son of Christine (née Meakin) and Antony Dyer. Tony (born 1979) and his sister, Kayleigh (born 1986). His parents split up when he was nine years old, and his mother was raised in Custom House. He started acting as a child, and his classmates mocked him so badly that he lied about attending acting classes.

Dyer's family roots were chronicled in a Series 13 episode of the BBC genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? where it was revealed that his family roots are from London's Poplar neighborhood. According to census results, many of them were employed in manual occupations related to the River Thames docks. Dyer is a descendant of Thomas Cromwell and Elizabeth Seymour, Elizabeth Seymour, the sister of Henry VIII's third wife Jane Seymour, according to new sources. Catherine married Cromwell's son Gregory Cromwell, and the Seymour family's claim that Edward III (Dyer's 25th generation ancestor) can be traced back to William the Conqueror and Charlemagne. Geneticist Adam Rutherford argued that an English person descended from a Plantagenet king was "not surprising," implying that "almost every British" can claim such descent.

Personal life

Dyer lives in Debden, Essex. He began dating Joanne Mas in 1992, but they separated after the birth of their first child, future television presenter Dani Dyer, in 1996; they began dating other people, but soon began an affair with each other and decided to reconcile. After she proposed to him in March 2015, they married on September 3rd, 2016. They also have another daughter and a boy.

Dyer has been open about his drug use. "I've always used drugs and I probably will," he said in his autobiography, but there's a difference between having the odd crafty boost on a job well done and allowing it to rule your life." Since he claims that banning cocaine hasn't worked, he has advocated for the legalization of the drug.

Dyer, a lifelong football player and follower, supports West Ham United FC. He became the chairman of Kent County's Greenwich Borough FC in December 2007, a fellow actor Tamer Hassan, president of the football club. "I just love football, and the possibility of being involved with a club is like a dream come true," he said. The appointment was actually a publicity stunt to lift the club's profile.

Dyer went to Sierra Leone in 2016 to participate in Sport Relief. "I don't know what to expect if I go over there," he said, but I'm hoping that it would make a difference." It's a privilege to be asked."

Straight Up, Dyer's autobiography, was released in 2011. Danny Dyer's World According to Danny Dyer: Life Lessons from the East End, he published another autobiography in 2016.

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Career

Dyer was discovered at a local school by an agent who auditioned him for the role of Martin Fletcher in the Granada Television series Prime Suspect 3 (1993), beginning his acting career at 16 years old. He appeared on television in Cadfael (1994), A Touch of Frost (1995), Loved Up (1995), Mountainer and Soldier Soldier (both 1997). In addition to his television appearances, his appearances in the 2003 Channel 4 drama Second Generation, directed by John Sen., as Malcolm, the main character of Michelle's stepfather; and as Matt Costello in what was supposed to be a one-part drama on BBC Northern Ireland premiered on BBC One on May 26, 2008.

Dyer began in 2007 as the host of The Real Football Factories International, a TV documentary series on Bravo, for which he travels, to visit football club supporters and hooligans throughout the United Kingdom and the world. "A gritty and hard-hitting documentary series that sees him venting into the dark depths of the British underworld and hunting down some of the most popular and fearful men in Britain today," began airing on Bravo in the United Kingdom on October 20th.

He sluggishly left his role in EastEnders in April 2009, saying that although the job seemed positive, he did not think he would be able to cope with the pressure. Dyer appeared in a Casualty episode in February 2012. Dyer appeared on Celebrity Juice in March 2013. Dyer appeared in the sixth series of Hollyoaks later in October 2013 as The White Man. Dyer had been seen in EastEnders from Christmas 2013, as Mick Carter, the current landlord of The Queen Victoria pub, announced it on October 1, 2013. Dyer revealed that he had been offered and had turned down the role of Carl White, who was later portrayed by Daniel Coonan. Dyer would take a "short break" from EastEnders in February 2017. Dyer had left EastEnders after over eight years in the role of Mick in January 2022.

Dyer appeared on Good Evening Britain, a one-off spin-off show of Good Morning Britain, in June 2018, to address Britain's exit from the European Union. Dyer referred to it as a "mad riddle that no one knows what it is" and called David Cameron, the country's former Prime Minister, a "twat." True Love or True Lies, a Dyer-narrating MTV reality show, began in August 2018. Dyer appeared in Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family in a history documentary released in 2019. On January 23, 2019, BBC One's two-part series premiered. Dyer co-presented True Love or True Lies on MTV, as well as starting his presenting role on BBC One. Dyer would also be leaving The Wall after he announced his departure from EastEnders.

Dyer is best known for his role in films as a "poor boy" or "hard man" actor. Dyer's first film appearance was in Human Traffic (1999). Mel Smith's High Heels and Low Lifes (2001) and his starring roles in Borstal Boy (2000), Mean Machine (2002), and four films by British film producer Nick Love: Goodbye Charlie Bright (2001); The Business (2005); and Outlaw (2007). He appeared in several film roles, including as Steve in Christopher Smith's Severance (2006); as Hayden in Adulthood (2008); and as himself in the animated film Tattoos: A Scarred History.

Pete and Tom appeared in City Rats and 7 Lives in 2008. City Rats was released on DVD in April 2009. Dyer finished filming on Jack Said, a British noir thriller in which he appeared alongside Ashlie Walker, Terry Stone, David O'Hara, and Simon Phillips, which was released in November 2009. This film is the prequel to Jack Says, which was released in 2008 and starred Mike Reid.

In 2009, he shot several horror films, including Doghouse under the direction of Jake West and Basement under Asham Kamboj's direction. He appeared in Dead Cert, one of the main roles. He was in June 2010 for the lead role in the British horror film The Asphyx, but it was unable to obtain production funding and was indefinitely postponed. In Deviation, a British dark thriller written and directed by J. K. Amalou, Dyer co-starred with Anna Walton.

Dyer was in charge of Ray Cooney's Run For Your Wife in 2012. Critics called it one of the worst British films of all time on release in 2013. During its first weekend, the film earned £747.

Dyer has appeared on stage, most notably in two plays written and directed by 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, as the Waiter in the London premiere of Celebration (2000), and as Foster in the revival of No Man's Land (1975), at the Royal National Theatre in London, 2001 to 2002. In March 2008, he appeared in a revival of Pinter's The Homecoming (1964), directed by Michael Attenborough at London's Almeida Theatre. In 1999, he appeared in Certain Young Men (1999) in London. Dyer appeared in a new play called Kurt and Sid at the Trafalgar Studios from 9 September 2009 to October 3, 2009.

In the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), Dyer is the voice of Kent Paul. He also appears in Twang's 2007 film "Two Lovers."

I believe in UFOs: Danny Dyer, a documentary that sees Dyer's journey to various "UFO hotspots" in the United Kingdom and the United States in the hopes of seeing a UFO sighting, was shown on BBC Three on January 26, 2010. In 2016, he appeared in drag in "Nebraska" by Lucy Rose. He began co-hosting Sorted with the Dyers, a podcast with daughter Dani, in 2020.

Dyer, Will Mellor, and others developed a new Vindaloo for NHS Charities in 2021. Dyer left EastEnders in January 2022 so he would be able to accept an invitation to appear on a Sky show.

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