Tom Chambers

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Thomas Stuart Chambers (born 22 May 1977) is an English actor best known for his appearances in BBC medical dramas Holby City and Casualty as Sam Strachan and as Max Tyler in BBC drama series Waterloo Road.

He and his partner Camilla Dallerup won the sixth season of Strictly Come Dancing.

Early life

Chambers was born and raised in Darley Dale, Derbyshire, and attended Repton School.

Personal life

Chambers came close to death in December 2000 when the British Airways flight on which he was traveling from London to Nairobi was interrupted in a hijack attempt. Paul Mukonyi, a 27-year-old mental patient from Kenya, burst into the Boeing 747's cockpit. The jumbo was knocked off track and crashed about 19,000 feet (5,800 meters) with 398 passengers on board as the cockpit crew continued to restrain Mukonyi as the crew continued to restrain Mukonyi. The pilots regained control of the plane, and all passengers were able to safely land. "This was the most frightening experience of my life," Chambers referred to. It was this flight that caused him to search out his teen sweetheart, Clare Harding, and propose. The couple married in Derbyshire in October 2008, but they had to change the date due to his involvement in Strictly Come Dancing.

Chambers took part in the Great Walk to Beijing, which was led by singer Olivia Newton-John in 2008 in aid of breast cancer awareness and research.

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Career

Chambers attended the National Youth Music Theatre and Guildford School of Acting. He has starred opposite Matthew Rhys and Kate Ashfield in the British film Fakers.

Chambers' interest in dance led him to recreate the sequence from the 1937 RKO film A Damsel in Distress in which Fred Astaire tap dances with a drum kit. The video was sent to casting directors and led to Chambers gaining a part in Holby City as cardiothoracic registrar Sam Strachan. A video of the performance was posted on YouTube prior to his appearance on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. He later uploaded a video diary of his rehearsals for the recording. When he left Holby City, the programme honoured him with a montage of his three years' work.

In May 2009, it was announced by Denise Welch on Loose Women that Chambers would be joining the fifth series of BBC drama, Waterloo Road as new Executive Head Teacher, Max Tyler, where he appeared in ten episodes.

Chambers narrates the series The Real A&E broadcast daily on Sky1. In November 2011, Chambers starred in the stage version tour of Top Hat. Tom was interviewed in June 2012 with questions about his career and in particular his role in Top Hat

In 2014–2015, Chambers portrayed Inspector Sullivan in the BBC TV's Father Brown in two series (25 episodes).

In 2017–2018, Chambers returned to singing and dancing, starring as Bobby Child alongside Clare Sweeney and Charlotte Wakefield, touring the UK in the Watermill production of the George and Ira Gershwin musical,Crazy For You.

Chambers competed in and won the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing, paired with professional dancer Camilla Dallerup. The pair opened the series by performing the cha-cha-cha and scored 28 points. After being on top of the leaderboard twice in the series (joint first place with Lisa Snowdon in Week 5 and joint first with Snowdon and Cherie Lunghi in week 8), Chambers made it to the semi-finals of the competition, seeing off his apparently biggest challenger Austin Healey, with whom he shared a friendly rivalry. It was here, however, that Chambers' participation looked most in doubt, as he finished bottom of the leaderboard. However, he was reprieved when it became clear that a tie between the other two couples at the top of the leaderboard meant that there was no way for him to be saved from the dance-off, leading the BBC to put all three couples through to the final. In the final, Chambers beat Lisa Snowdon into third place, before competing head to head with Rachel Stevens in the final round, where his show dance with Dallerup was greatly praised by the judges. It was announced that Chambers and Dallerup had gained the most public votes and won the show, making Chambers the third male winner of Strictly Come Dancing. It was Dallerup's first win on the show. On Christmas Day 2008, Chambers returned to partner Dallerup in the Christmas special; however, they came second from bottom of the leaderboard and were not voted into the final two by the studio audience. The pair have since appeared on the Strictly Come Dancing tour in early 2009 dancing the quickstep and the samba. In 2015, Chambers participated in the Christmas special, with professional dancer, Oti Mabuse.

In May 2009, Chambers joined the cast of the BBC Drama Waterloo Road. His first episode was episode 1 of the fifth series which first aired the week of 25 October 2009 portraying Executive headmaster Max Tyler, who is brought in to oversee the merger of Waterloo Road with local private school John Fosters. His distorted personality is progressively revealed, which climaxes in episode 5.10 where his true colours are finally revealed (when he hits a student) to the relief of the large majority of the school community, which results in his suspension.

Chambers originated the role of Jerry Travers in the UK production of Top Hat. The show opened on 16 August 2011 at the Milton Keynes Theatre, touring the United Kingdom before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End. Chambers left the production on 4 February 2013.

In October 2019, it was announced that Chambers would star in the new touring production of Dial M for Murder as Tony Wendice.

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