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Dan Tetsell during the final performance of As It Occurs To Me in 2011

Dan Tetsell (born 2 July 1974) is a British actor, comedian and writer for radio, television and stage. He has worked on a number of projects, including The Museum of Everything, That Was Then, This Is Now, Newsjack and Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections. Notably, he created CBBC series Young Dracula with Museum of Everything colleague Danny Robins. He is married to comedy actor Margaret Cabourn-Smith.

At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he performed a one-man comedy show entitled Sins of the Grandfathers, focusing on his grandfather's Nazi past.

Notable TV roles include Brian in the BBC Two situation comedy Lab Rats and the voice of the cat Marion in the BBC Three adult puppet comedy Mongrels. He has appeared in episodes of the BBC TV comedies Miranda and Psychoville.

He starred alongside Richard Herring, Emma Kennedy, and Christian Reilly on Richard Herring's weekly podcast, As It Occurs To Me.

In 2012 he joined British soap Hollyoaks, playing new regular "cunning" solicitor Jim McGinn; he made his first appearance on 30 November. His character was killed by Fraser Black (Jesse Birdsall) in January 2014.

YearTitleRoleNotes
1998BarkingVarious roles4 episodes
2000–01We Are HistoryKeiron12 episodes
2005Buried Alive
2007HyperdriveRobot 11 episode
2007After You've GoneFairground Barker1 episode
2007ExtrasExtra1 episode
2008Lab RatsBrian Lalumaca6 episodes
2009The Omid Djalili ShowHimself1 episode
2009MirandaNaval Interviewer1 episode
2010Five DaughtersJournalist2 episodes
2010The Old GuysSenior Consultant1 episode
2010VexedGraham1 episode
2010The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd MargaretParamedic1 episode
2010Hotel TrubbleFalse Vicar1 episode
2010–2011MongrelsMarion (voice)Entire show
2011PsychovillePhotographer1 episode
2012SkinsSmithy1 episode
2012StarlingsArthur1 episode
2012Peep ShowRobert Grayson3 episodes
2012–14HollyoaksJim McGinn111 episode
2013UtopiaHeadteacher2 episodes
2013The MimicChris Stubbs / Chris Potts3 episodes
2015HumansSynth Salesman1 episode
2016Red Dwarf XIColonel Jim Green1 episode
2017Not Going OutChannel Ferries employee1 episode
2018Upstart CrowEdward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford1 episode
2020Truth SeekersPaul White1 episode
2021The NeversPhone Line Engineer1 episode
SlicedGeoff1 episode
HitmenMascot1 episode
Children in NeedMarion (voice)Puppet Aid skit
The Toys That Built AmericaElliot Handler2 episodes
Hansel & Gretel: After Ever AfterDad
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  • Dan Tetsell at British Comedy Guide
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