Simon Armstrong appeared on Coronation Street as Mr Peakman, the consultant who diagnosed and treated Hayley Cropper's pancreatic cancer during 2013.
With a CV dating back to the mid-1990s, his other TV credits include roles in The Sherman Plays, Casualty, Midsomer Murders, Holby City, Doctors, Game of Thrones, Da Vinci's Demons and Call the Midwife, the feature films Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, The Edge of Love, Made in Dagenham, Killer Elite and In the Dark Half, and stage productions including Table Manners, Kes, Robin Hood, Tartuffe, The Crucible, Educating Rita, Waiting for Godot, Of Mice and Men, Macbeth, Hamlet, Accrington Pals, Cannibals and Copenhagen.