#Tony steward series#

Jason agreed to meet his father for a drink and the pair got along well. He later later bumped into Jason at Roy's Rolls and Tony attempted to convince his son to talk to him. In March 2003, Tony crossed paths with Eileen and Jason when out drinking with his girlfriend Merle Jackson at the Rovers in Coronation Street. Tony maintained little contact over the years and did not play much of a part in his son's life, leaving Eileen to bear most of the responsibilities. Tony had rarely much to do with his family and Eileen quickly moved on with her life. 1.3 2014-2015: Dealings with Tracy and Callumīorn on 14th March 1966, Tony and Eileen had a short-term relationship in the early 1980s which resulted in the birth of Jason in June 1983.Callum had in fact been killed by Kylie Platt when he tried to rape Sarah, but Todd Grimshaw managed to pin the crime on Tony, keeping the Platts out of prison at the cost of Tony's good name. After his death, Tony was implicated in the murder of gangster Callum Logan the year before. Tony moved to Birmingham, and passed away five months later alone in his flat from a suspected heart attack. After Liz got revenge on Tony by tricking him into signing the Rovers back to Steve, she disgraced him in front of the residents and he left the area, humiliated. Tony also had an affair with Tracy behind his girlfriend Liz McDonald's back, and tricked Steve McDonald into selling his half of the Rovers Return as part of a plot to con the McDonalds out of the pub. An electrician and businessman, he made extra money through dodgy deals, using Barlow's Buys to shift his gear and later having the premises burgled in order to manipulate Tracy Barlow into handing over half of the business to him. Tony returned for a longer spell in Weatherfield in 2014.

Jason came to realise that his father was no saint, but nevertheless kept in touch with him. Father and son crossed paths in 2003 when Jason was grown up, but Tony was only in Weatherfield for a short while and disappeared after letting Eileen take the blame for a theft that he had committed. Tony was absent from much of Jason's life, leaving his ex-partner Eileen Grimshaw to raise him. Best Actor at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards for his role in Andrea Arnold's Red Road.Tony Stewart is the late father of Jason Grimshaw.Evening News National Award - for the role of Devil in the theatre production The Soldier's Tale.In 2012 he married Mai Nguyen the couple have a daughter.

#Tony steward series#

Pete Twamley in the ITV series Ultimate Force, which was broadcast in over 100 countries.Ĭurran later worked in season 8 of The Flash where he portrayed Despero in his human form and voiced him in his true alien form starting in the five-part episode 'Armageddon'. Curran also made a cameo appearance in the Doctor Who episode ' The Pandorica Opens'.Ĭurran played Sgt. A scene where Curran plays van Gogh, taken into the future to see his work in a modern museum, has been described as one of the most emotional in the entire series. The episode, written by Richard Curtis, was rated by Screen Rant as the best of Matt Smith's time as the Doctor. In 2016 Curran signed to play 'Callum' in the new E4/ Netflix original series Crazyhead.Ĭurran portrayed Vincent van Gogh in the science fiction television series Doctor Who. Curran played the role of Datak Tarr on the Syfy series Defiance and in 2014, he costarred with Diana Vickers in the thriller film Awaiting. He is a frequent and popular participant in the annual Dressed to Kilt event in New York City, run by Friends of Scotland in celebration of Tartan Week.

Ĭurran participates in marathons to raise money for charity. In 2006 he appeared in the unrated film Red Road.

(According to his commentary on the DVD, he looked like a ' smurf on acid'.) He also played vampire roles in Guillermo del Toro's Blade II as Priest and Underworld: Evolution as Markus. To portray the Invisible Man, he donned a special suit that turned him into a walking bluescreen. Since then, he has appeared in a number of major film and television roles, including Rodney Skinner (The Invisible Man), an original character in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Career Ĭurran appeared in the BBC television series This Life. Curran was born in Glasgow, and is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.