Nigel Betts

Known for ActingBorn 1963-10-15 (age 62)Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

Nigel Betts is an English actor, who from 2003 to 2007 appeared on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as Eddie Hope. He also portrayed Tony in the BBC Two sitcom Boy Meets Girl and had a recurring role as Mr Armitage in the eighth series of Doctor Who as well as in Class, a Doctor Who spin-off. Betts has also appeared in several other British television programmes such as Downton Abbey, Doctors, EastEnders, Holby City, Coronation Street, The Bill, Ridley Road, and the much acclaimed ITV series, Sharpe. He also played a singing bartender in an episode of the sitcom As Time Goes By and Steve Taylor's laconic neighbor in an episode of the sitcom Coupling. In 2016 he appeared as Brian Teddern in The Coroner, S2:E5 “The Captain’s Pipe”. In 2009 he played Tommy in the eighth episode of the fourth series of Doc Martin. Betts has also numerous theatre credits including playing an assortment of roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including playing a variety of successful characters in the RSC's Gunpowder season. Other theatre credits include The 39 Steps, a British play adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock, and Arthur in War Horse, the National Theatre's award-winning show in the West End. In September 2019, he appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Elton Summertree. He appeared again in 2024, this time in the role of Mellie Tyler.Read more

Movies & web series

Ralph & Katie

Small Zones

All Creatures Great & Small

Outlander

Pie in the Sky

Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven

Killing Eve

Coupling

Little Boy Blue

Father Brown

The Long Shadow

Desert Flower

Doctor Who

Death in Paradise

Vera

Toast of Tinseltown

Midsomer Murders

Boat Story

A Touch of Frost

As Time Goes By

I Fought the Law

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

The Escape Artist

The Afternoon Play

The Phantom of the Open

All Those Small Things

Sharpe's Mission

Pib and Pog

The Cursed

Wasteland

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution

The Personal History of David Copperfield

Cheeky

The Coroner

Class

The Whipping Boy

The Good Ship Murder

The Christmas Candle

Jekyll & Hyde

Lipstikka

Boy Meets Girl

Thunderpants

The Lantern Man

Lost Beasts

A Young Pirate's Tale

Albion

Hampstead Theatre At Home: Wonderland

The Eustace Bros.