Colin Tarrant (14 June 1952 – 26 January 2012) was an English actor best known for playing Inspector Andrew Monroe in ITV's The Bill between 1990 and 2002.
Tarrant was born in 1952 in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, and studied for a degree in English and Drama at Exeter University,[1] then at the cutting edge of dramaturgy.
His first major television role was that of Will Brangwen in the BBC miniseries The Rainbow (1988), playing opposite Imogen Stubbs.
[4] He followed this with the role of the vagrant Davies in a Nottingham Playhouse production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, his performance described by The Stage as "brilliant – wild-eyed, twitchy, aggressive, over-defensive and ungrateful".
Television roles included appearances in Holby City, Heartbeat, Doctors, Midsomer Murders and as Ted Williamson in an episode of Casualty which aired on BBC 1 on 11 December 2010.