Nick Wilton

Nicholas Wilton (born 8 March 1957) is an English actor and scriptwriter. Best known for playing Mr Lister in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as a recurring character, Wilton has also appeared in Carrott's Lib, Fast Forwardand Jackanory.

Wilton was born in Stalham, Norfolk. He studied English and Drama at the University of Kent.

Acting

Wilton made his acting debut in 1980 in the Whitehall farce Simple Spymen, directed by Brian Rix and went on to play opposite Brian in the West End revival of Dry Rot at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue in 1988. He has appeared in many TV shows such as the BBC soap opera EastEnders, Doctors (twice), Casualty, Heartbeat, The Bill (three times), Carrott's Lib (two series and Election Specials), The Omid Djalili Show and the children's show Scoop with former EastEnders star, Shaun Williamson. He appeared as a guest in My Dad's the Prime Minister, No. 73 (five series), Saturday Superstore as 'Mo the Crow' and as 'Mr Seagrove' for 11 episodes in Big Meg, Little Meg. He was also in and wrote for the children's sketch show Fast Forward for 19 episodes between 1984-87.

He has appeared in many stage productions such as Michael Cooney's play, Cash on Delivery at the Whitehall Theatre (now Trafalgar Studios), directed by Ray Cooney and Tom, Dick and Harry, as well as The Railway Children, playing Mr Perks in four UK tours. On Radio he was in and wrote for In One Ear (3 series), Son of Cliché (2 series), Cover to Cover, Aspects of the Fringe and The Story So Far. He has written dialogue and provided voices for exhibitions at the London Transport Museum; presented the comedy channel for Emirates and SriLankan Airlines from 1998 to 2010and made a recording of Ricky Gervais's biography, The Story So Far. In the late eighties he also performed cabaret. Since 2000 he has appeared as Pantomime dame every Christmas. In 2011, he appeared in a Specsavers advert alongside chef Gordon Ramsay. In 2012 he was cast in the film version of Ray Cooneys farce Run for Your Wife. Wilton has also starred in international stage productions such as No Sex Please - We're British produced by the British Theatre Playhouse in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in May 2015, and A Bedfull of Foreigners produced by the same company in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur in September 2006.

Scriptwriting

Wilton is also a scriptwriter and has written for "Three of a Kind", "Playaway", "In One Ear" (radio / three series)The Smith and Jones Sketchbook TV series, Smack the Pony in 1999, TV series, WYSIWYG and wrote one episode of Jackanory. In 1987 he wrote an episode for The Les Dennis Laughter Show and in 1984 he wrote four episodes of Spitting Image. He also wrote for Not the Nine O'Clock News, A Kick Up the Eighties and the TV series Alas Smith and Jones.

Wilton currently resides in Whitstable, Kent with his third wife, the actress Lynette McMorrough. He has two children (born 1990 and 1993) with his second wife, Julie Dawn Cole, whom he met in 1988 in the revival of the Whitehall farce "Dry Rot"; they were divorced in 2002. He is a patron of The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.

Wilton was nominated for the Perrier Award alongside his revue group, Writers Inc and won in 1982. He was in the "Carrott's Lib" team that won the BAFTA for Best Light Entertainment programme in 1983. On radio he was in the two Sony Award-winning comedy series Son of Cliché (best comedy 1984), with Chris Barrie and Nick Maloney, which was written by Red Dwarf creators Rob Grant & Doug Naylorand In One Ear (best comedy 1985), which went out live for three series, and which he created with the producer Jamie Rix.