David Neilson

David Neilson is an English actor best known for portraying Roy Cropper in the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1995 onwards.

Neilson was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, and entered the Central School of Speech and Drama at the age of 20, working in various jobs at the same time, including as a gas fitter, ice cream salesman and a barman.

Source: Wikipedia