Stephen Beckett (born 24 May 1967) is an English actor, known for portraying Dr Matt Ramsden in Coronation Street and Mike Jarvis in The Bill.
[2] Beckett left school at the age of sixteen to become an actor, and began his career in street theatre in Covent Garden.
Beckett won his first professional roles a week after graduating from drama school, appearing in Richard II and Callas at the Oldham Coliseum.
Beckett's theatre work includes the original productions of the Alan Ayckbourn plays Drowning on Dry Land and Private Fears in Public Places, Around the World in Eighty Days,[1] The Ghost Train,[5] Murder with Love,[6] Walk Hard, The Business of Murder, The Late Edwina Black and Absurd Person Singular.
[5] Beckett played Prospero in The Tempest for the 2017 open air Stafford Festival Shakespeare 22 June – 8 July 2017.