Ray Fearon

Raymond Fearon is a British actor. He played garage mechanic Nathan Cooper on ITV's long-running soap opera Coronation Street from 2005-2006. Other credits include Band of Gold (1997), EastEnders (2001), As If (2002), the Harry Potter film series (2001-2002), His Dark Materials (2003), Doctors (2008), Raw (2010), Da Vinci's Demons (2014), Fantastic Beasts (film series) (2018-2022), Fleabag (2019), Red Dwarf (2020), Champion (2023), and The Feud (2025). From a young age, he joined the Royal Court Theatre and Tricycle Youth Theatre,[1] before going on to study drama at Rose Bruford College. Fearon made his reputation as a stage actor, working at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre;[2] Manchester Contact Theatre; Manchester Royal Exchange;[2] Oxford Playhouse;[2] Barn Theatre, Kent; The Almeida; The Crucible, Sheffield; The Donmar Warehouse; The Royal Shakespeare Theatres in Stratford and the National Theatre.[2] He starred in Othello—opposite Gillian Kearney's Desdemona— in Liverpool at the age of 24, becoming the first black actor to play Othello on RSC main stages for over 40 years. His other early stage roles included Charles Surface in The School for Scandal; Betty/Martin in Cloud 9 (play); Longaville in Love's Labour's Lost; Ferdinand in The Tempest; and Pete in Blues for Mister Charlie.