Paul Loughran

Paul Anthony Martin Loughran (born 7 July 1969 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish actor. He was educated at Methodist College Belfast.[1] He is best known for portraying Butch Dingle in ITV Soap Opera Emmerdale in which his character died in a bus crash with friend Pete Collins. After that he appeared in many other TV series such as Heartbeat. During the 1980s when the real voice of Gerry Adams, the spokesman for Sinn Féin, was forbidden to be broadcast in Britain, Loughran's voice was dubbed into recordings of him that were broadcast on British airwaves. On 24 August 2016, it was announced that Loughran had been cast as Darryl Perkins, the father of Craig Tinker (Colson Smith), in Coronation Street.

Paul Loughran
Born
Paul Anthony Martin Loughran

(1969-07-07) 7 July 1969
OccupationActor
Years active1992-present
Known forActing
AwardsSoap Awards BAFTA

Filmography

References

  1. "100 Reasons to love Northern Ireland - PropertyPal". propertypal.com. Retrieved 4 August 2016.


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