Oliver FarnworthFarnworth was born and brought up just outside of Halifax in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, but moved to Sidmouth in Devon when he was fifteen.[1] He was trained at the Bristol Old Vic.[1]
Before appearing in Hollyoaks, Farnworth appeared on stage in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe[1] and in The London Plays, written by Ed Hime and directed by Kelly Wilkinson.[1] He has also appeared in three episodes of ITV1's 1960s medical drama The Royal, playing a character called Nev Cartwright.[2] In 2008 Farnworth played the leading role in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning at the Harrogate Theatre,[3] and Lysander with the British Shakespeare Company in A Midsummer Night's Dream [1].[2] In 2009 he appeared in The Merchant of Venice at Penshurst Place Gardens in Kent.[2] In April 2010 Farnworth appeared in the West End production of Holding the Man at the Trafalgar Studios.[4] In 2014 he played Florian Dupont, a Belgian refugee, in the TV series Mr. Selfridge before joining the cast of Coronation Street as Andy Carver. |