Nicholas Lyndhurst

Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst is an English actor. His successful career has seen him play Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, Gary Sparrow in Goodnight Sweetheart, Dan Griffin in the BBC drama New Tricks and Adam Parkinson in Carla Lanes series Butterflies. Lyndhurst also prominently starred as Ashley Philips in The Two of Us, as Fletchs son Raymond in Going Straight, the sequel to the classic British sitcom Porridge, Jimmy Venables in After Youve Gone, and Freddie The Frog Robdal in the Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock amp Chips.

Nicholas Simon Lyndhurst, born onApril 1961, was a child student at Corona Theatre School. He appeared in a succession of television adverts and childrens films in the late 1970s. Lyndhurst first gained national recognition at the age of seventeen in the sitcom Butterflies written by Carla Lane, in which he played Adam Parkinson. He then played Raymond Fletcher, the teenage son of Norman Stanley Fletcher played by Ronnie Barker in Going Straight, he played Dobson in the BBC TV Series To Serve Them All My Days, before achieving national stardom in the series Only Fools and Horses in which he played Rodney Trotter, the younger brother of the main character Derek Del Boy Trotter.

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