Dominic Arnold(I)

Since graduating from Drama Centre, London, Dominic's theatre credits include Callisto in La Celestina and Sebastian in Friends and Lovers, both at the Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow and at the Edinburgh Festival as Kokol in the Marat Sade. As a founder member of Theatre for Oxford, which included a season at Oxford and two whistle-stop tours of Europe, Dominic appeared as Tom in the Glass Menagerie, Algernon in The Importance of Being Ernest and Marat Yefstigneyev in Arbuzov's The Promise. For the Royal Shakespeare Company Dominic played Valentine in David Thacker's production of Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Barbican, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket and a number-one tour of the UK, and for the Watermill, Newbury, he played all three members of the Ball family in Sticky Wickets. A project which required him to learn the Tango, the Fox-trot and a Viennese waltz was as Cyril in Prince on a White Bike at Ayckbourn's Theatre in the Round. Another role saw him as a dreadlocked Mercutio at the Contact Theatre, Manchester in their production of Romeo and Juliet. Also at Contact he played Lysander and Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and at the Chester Gateway he played Andy in Phil Willmott's production of Neil Simon's The Star Spangled Girl His television credits include Sammy Limb in A Very Peculiar Practice for the BBC, Jason in Boon, John Middleton in The Bill, Charles Durrant in HTV's The Honey Siege, Andrew Harvey in the Australian mini series Melba, James Gilby in the Fall of the House of Windsor, Piers Gilpin in the soap Jupiter Moon (which is still transmitted across the ether almost ten times a week on the Sci-Fi Channel) and Peter Hughes in Yorkshire Television's Heartbeat. Dominic appeared in pop videos for Nitzer Ebb and the female duo Scarlet for their single Love Hangover.