Alan Westaway
Acting
Biography
Alan is a writer, actor and director who trained at the Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre. He spent two and a half years playing PC Nick Slater in The Bill (1984) and has appeared in a variety of TV shows and films, including "Peep Show", "The Borgias" and the feature film, "Honour". As a writer, working with co-writer James Allen, he recently wrote on "Stan Lee's Lucky Man" and has several projects in development, including the feature film, "The Son". Alan has also directed three short films, "The Good Cop", adapted from a short story by Magnus Mills, "The Run" and "Paul Tonkinson's Valentine", part of the Sky Comedy Shorts series.
Known For
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
Vera
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Skins
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
Peak Practice
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.
The Borgias
Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.
Peep Show
A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident, gives him life.
Virtual Sexuality
Angela is a French art student living in Germany who loves to draw comics and creates elaborate tales drawn in a soft and romantic style. One night, Angela meets Yamamoto, a club DJ from Japan, who invites her to come to Tokyo with him. Infatuated with Yamamoto, Angela impulsively agrees, and is soon sharing an apartment with a handful of Western expatriates who work at a nightclub where Japanese businessmen drink, sing karaoke, and date the "hostesses" for a fee.
Stratosphere Girl
WPC Ackland finds herself the target of an assassin's bullet.
The Bill: Target
The apocalypse has arrived and the only way out is in the back of a truck. A middle class family flee the city. The truck stops to pick up new passengers, triggering a meltdown of the family dynamic. But who will make it to the end?