Tony Gardner

Known for ActingBorn 1964-01-10 (age 62)Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Tony Gardner (born 10 January 1964) is an English actor and doctor. He sits on the national governing body of the actors' trade union Equity. He attended St Augustine's Catholic College in Trowbridge. Gardner qualified as a physician at Guy's Hospital in 1987, then as a general practitioner in 1993. He combined medicine and comedy during the 1990s as half of the award-winning comedy duo Struck Off and Die with Phil Hammond. Gardner eventually left medicine to become an actor, starring in a number of TV commercials, including that for the Renault Mégane. He reached prominence playing Brian Johnson in CITV's My Parents Are Aliens (episodes of which he also wrote) and Michael, the café owner in Jack Dee's BBC sitcom Lead Balloon. In 2009–10 he starred in three plays directed by Sir Peter Hall. In 2011 he played Professor Tony Shales in the Channel 4 series Fresh Meat. Between 2012 and 2020, he played John in five series of the critically acclaimed romantic drama series Last Tango in Halifax. The programme attracted impressive ratings for BBC One, with the third series posting an average of 7.8 million viewers. Between 2013 and 2015, he appeared as Lieutenant Colonel Phillip Smith in three series of the wartime comedy Bluestone 42, about a British bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan during Operation Herrick. He appeared as Dan Miller MP in the BBC political comedy The Thick of It. He was a main character of the music video "Giant Peach" by Wolf Alice. He appeared in a variety of roles in Tracey Ullman's Show from 2016. He also appeared in an episode of the Netflix show, Lovesick, portraying Dylan’s father at surprise wedding anniversary party. In January 2021, Gardner appeared in S11E1 of Not Going Out as a neighbour to Lee and Lucy. He then appeared again in S12E4 in 2022.Read more

Movies & web series

Spinners and Losers

Gates

Tracey Breaks the News

People Like Us

The Thick of It

May Contain: Nuts

The Armando Iannucci Shows

Grown Ups

Father Brown

Cold Feet

Doctor Who

Lead Balloon

Death in Paradise

Not Going Out

Midsomer Murders

Bluestone 42

Plebs

Lovesick

Crazy for You

Fresh Meat

Stella

Moving Wallpaper

Lovejoy

The Escape Artist

Last Tango in Halifax

Innocent

Big Bad World

Vexed

The Lenny Henry Show

Sunnyside Farm

Joking Apart

Drop the Dead Donkey

Crossing the Floor

Sister Boniface Mysteries

My Parents Are Aliens

Tripped

M.I. High

A Little Grey

May Contain Nuts

You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray"

Restoration

Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown

Death on the Tyne

The Larkins

Cockneys vs Zombies

Horrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans

Young Hyacinth

Minutes Past Midnight