Rob Dixon

Rob Dixon appeared in Coronation Street in December 1988 as Brian Roscoe, an unemployed emotionally-fragile man who held Deirdre Barlow hostage on Christmas Day.

He began his career at The Royal Court Youth Theatre before training at The Central School of Speech and Drama where he graduated with a diploma in Performance Arts.

He has also appeared in First Born, Inspector Morse, The Bill, The Cops, Peak Practice, Playing the Field, Dalziel and Pascoe, Emmerdale, Murphy's Law, Heartbeat, Waking the Dead, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Silent Witness, Holby City and WPC 56.

Film roles include Bellman and True, The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, Flood, The Wolfman and Christmas Eve.

In 1985 he received the Manchester Evening News ' "Best Actor of the Year Award" for his performance as Max in Bent.

On radio he was heard in Gabriel's Ashes.

External pages

 * Internet Movie Database entry for Rob Dixon