Dan Tetsell (born 2 July 1974) is a British actor, comedian and writer for radio, television and stage. He has worked on a number of projects, including The Museum of Everything, That Was Then, This Is Now, Newsjack and Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections. Notably, he created CBBC series Young Dracula with Museum of Everything colleague Danny Robins. He is married to comedy actor Margaret Cabourn-Smith.[1]
At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he performed a one-man comedy show entitled Sins of the Grandfathers, focusing on his grandfather's Nazi past.[2]
Notable TV roles include Brian in the BBC Two situation comedy Lab Rats and the voice of the cat Marion in the BBC Three adult puppet comedy Mongrels. He has appeared in episodes of the BBC TV comedies Miranda and Psychoville.
He starred alongside Richard Herring, Emma Kennedy, and Christian Reilly on Richard Herring's weekly podcast, As It Occurs To Me.
In 2012 he joined British soap Hollyoaks, playing new regular "cunning" solicitor Jim McGinn; he made his first appearance on 30 November.[3] [4] His character was killed by Fraser Black (Jesse Birdsall) in January 2014.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Barking | Various roles | 4 episodes |
| 2000–01 | We Are History | Keiron | 12 episodes |
| 2005 | Buried Alive | ||
| 2007 | Hyperdrive | Robot 1 | 1 episode |
| 2007 | After You've Gone | Fairground Barker | 1 episode |
| 2007 | Extras | Extra | 1 episode |
| 2008 | Lab Rats | Brian Lalumaca | 6 episodes |
| 2009 | The Omid Djalili Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2009 | Miranda | Naval Interviewer | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Five Daughters | Journalist | 2 episodes |
| 2010 | The Old Guys | Senior Consultant | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Vexed | Graham | 1 episode |
| 2010 | The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret | Paramedic | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Hotel Trubble | False Vicar | 1 episode |
| 2010–2011 | Mongrels | Marion (voice) | |
| 2011 | Psychoville | Photographer | 1 episode |
| 2012 | Skins | Smithy | 1 episode |
| 2012 | Starlings | Arthur | 1 episode |
| 2012 | Peep Show | Robert Grayson | 3 episodes |
| 2012–14 | Hollyoaks | Jim McGinn | 111 episode |
| 2013 | Utopia | Headteacher | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | The Mimic | Chris Stubbs / Chris Potts | 3 episodes |
| 2015 | Humans | Synth Salesman | 1 episode |
| 2016 | Red Dwarf XI | Colonel Jim Green | 1 episode |
| 2017 | Not Going Out | Channel Ferries employee | 1 episode |
| 2018 | Upstart Crow | Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford | 1 episode |
| 2020 | Truth Seekers | Paul White | 1 episode |
| 2021 | The Nevers | Phone Line Engineer | 1 episode |
| Sliced | Geoff | 1 episode | |
| Hitmen | Mascot | 1 episode | |
| Puppet Aid | Marion (voice) | ||
| The Toys That Built America | Elliot Handler | 2 episodes | |
| Hansel & Gretel: After Ever After | Dad |