Liam Gerrard

Gerrard was born and grew up in Kingston upon Hull before moving to Dubai in his early teens studying at the English College Dubai, before studying at Lancaster University and training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.[1]

Gerrard made his film debut in the 2007 Hollywood film Death Defying Acts playing a reporter. The film also starred Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall and Saoirse Ronan. He made his television debut in 2008 appearing in the television series Hollyoaks. In 2008 he starred in 6 WKD Original Vodka comedy television commercials leading their have you got a WKD side? campaign. He has appeared in over 50 plays. In 2006 he appeared in two British Shakespeare Company productions; A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet alongside Wayne Sleep, Mina Anwar, Sean Brosnan and David Davies.[2] The productions toured the United Kingdom extensively and transferred to Ramme Gaard under the patronage of Petter Olsen. In 2008 he joined Northern Broadsides and toured the UK with a production of Romeo and Juliet.[3] He went on to play the juvenile lead in Theatre by the Lake's world premiere of Melvyn Bragg's The Maid of Buttermere.[4] He subsequently appeared in two more productions at Theatre by the Lake; Tom's Midnight Garden and The Night Before Christmas. Other notable stage appearances include: Miss Julie the 4-hand David Eldridge adaptation, directed by Sarah Frankcom at the Royal Exchange;[5][6][7](also starring Maxine Peake, Joe Armstrong and Carla Henry), A Christmas Carol at both the Stephen Joseph Theatre and in later years at The Dukes,[8][9] Jekyll & Hyde at the New Wimbledon Theatre, Will Scarlett in Robin and Marian at the New Vic Theatre. In 2015 he appeared in the Royal Lyceum Theatre (Edinburgh) production of Caucasian Chalk Circle. The show received 4 and 5 star national reviews and won 4 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland. The Telegraph hailed the show 'A Triumph'.[10][11][12] He is the youngest person to play the title role of Prospero in London theatre, in the 2013 Watford Palace production of The Tempest. In 2014 he appeared in the 4-hander triptych piece Symphony written by Ella Hickson, Nick Payne and Tom Wells for Nabokov and Soho Theatre. The show won a Musical Theatre Network award for best new musical at the Edinburgh Fringe then toured the UK before transferring to London's West End.[13] In late 2018 he played Tom Snout (Wall) in the Crucible Theatre production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.[14]

Gerrard also works extensively as a voiceover artist and was nominated for a BAFTA for his film Walter Tull: Britain's First Black Officer. He has narrated over 100 audiobooks including the Tom Delonge series Poet Anderson.

• Coronation Street
• Peterloo
• Walter Tull: Britain's First Black Officer
• Death Defying Acts
• Butterfly
• Arch
• Cancer Scare
• Toolwire
• Hollyoaks
• Hollyoaks Later

• A Midsummer Night's Dream – Crucible Theatre
• Robin Hood – New Vic Theatre
• Caucasian Chalk Circle – Royal Lyceum Theatre
• Symphony – Soho Theatre, Nabokov
• The Life and Times of Mitchell and Kenyon – Oldham Coliseum Theatre
• A Christmas Carol – The Dukes (Lancaster)
• Miss Julie – Royal Exchange, Manchester
• The Tempest – Watford Palace Theatre
• Soul Man (Rigoletto) – Stephen Joseph Theatre
• Tom's Midnight Garden – Theatre by the Lake
• A Christmas Carol – Stephen Joseph Theatre
• The Night Before Christmas – Theatre by the Lake
• The Maid of Buttermere – Theatre by the Lake
• Romeo and Juliet – Northern Broadsides
• A Midsummer Night's Dream – Derby Playhouse
• Romeo and Juliet – British Shakespeare Company
• Jekyll & Hyde – New Wimbledon Theatre
• The Beauty Queen of Leenane
• Mrs. Warren's Profession – Judi Dench Theatre

• Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker series by Tom DeLonge
  • Poet Anderson ...of Nightmares by Tom DeLonge
  • Poet Anderson: ...In Darkness by Tom DeLonge
• Pink Mist by Owen Sheers
• The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker
• Shtum by Jim Lester
• The Secret Life by Andrew O'Hagan
• The Near East by Arthur Cotterell
• Little Caesar by Tommy Wieringa
• The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber
• Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf
• Palaces of Pleasure by Lee Jackson
• The Infinite Desire for Growth by Daniel Cohen
• The Demon in Democracy by Ryszard Legutko
• Game of Thrones Psychology by Travis Langley
• Deception of A Highlander Series:
  • Deception of A Highlander[15]
  • Possession of a Highlander by Madeline Martin
  • Enchantment of a Highlander by Madeline Martin
• Brutal by James Alerdice
• The Inspired Leader by Andy Bird
• Human by Mark Britnell
• Nicotine by Gregor Hens
• The Hidden Village by Imogen Matthews
• Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People by Timothy Morton
• What We Think About When We Think About Soccer by Simon Critchley
• Blackout by Sam Grenfall
• DI Mariner Series by Chris Collett:
  • Deadly Lies by Chris Collett
  • Innocent Lies by Chris Collett
  • Killer Lies by Chris Collett
• Half Life by Sarah Gray
• Dangerous Skies by Brian James
• Blood and Guts by Richard Hollingham
• Descent: My Epic Fall From Cycling by Thomas Dekker (cyclist)
• Beeronomics by Johan Swinnen and Devin Briski
• Key Performance Indicators by David Parmenter
• Billy Budd by Herman Melville
• All For Love Series by Karen Ranney
  • To Wed and Heiress by Karen Ranney
  • To Love a Duchess by Karen Ranney
  • To Bed the Bride Karen Ranney (awaiting publication)
• Trading With The Enemy by Hugo Meijer
• The Ultimate Colin Wilson by Colin Wilson
• To Fight Against This Age by Rob Riemen
• Strategy Builder by Stephen Cummings and Duncan Angwin
• Build It – The Rebel Playbook for World-Class Employee Engagement by Glenn Elliott and Debra Corey
• Eurotragedy by Ashoka Mody
• The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
• This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else – Joy Division by Jon Savage
• A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith

• Liam Gerrard at IMDb
• "Interview: Liam Gerrard, Essential Audiobooks". Essential Audiobooks. 27 July 2018.
• Official website