Peter Ash


Peter Ash is an English actor from Moston, Greater Manchester, who has starred in British television series such as Casualty, Footballers' Wives, Hollyoaks, and Coronation Street.

Early life

Ash attended St Matthew's RC High School in Moston and then Xaverian College in Rusholme, Manchester.
He first started acting in school plays and with local amateur theatre groups.

Career

His first TV acting role was in Blue Murder in 2003, which helped him land a bigger role in Casualty, playing Keith Jowell in six episodes.
He was 18 when he started playing Darius Fry in Footballers' Wives, between 2003 and 2006.
In 2005, he was in Street Trilogy at Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry.
He was a participant in the 2013–2015 UK tour of War Horse, at The Lowry theatre.
He has had guest appearances in The Street and The Royal.
In 2018, he played Harley Frater's acquaintance Ron in the Channel 4 soap opera, Hollyoaks. Reflecting on his stint on the soap, Ash told Inside Soap in 2019, "That was great fun, I had a really nice little part – even though I was playing a horrible person! My character was taking advantage of homeless girl Harley Frater
and supplying her drugs, so he wasn't very nice. But the Hollyoaks team was really lovely. I worked a lot alongside Mollie Lambert, who played Harley, and she was absolutely cracking."
In 2018, Ash appeared in Coronation Street, briefly portraying the character Paul Foreman, David Platt's cellmate in Highfield Prison. In 2019, he returned to Coronation Street. Paul was later revealed to be the estranged twin brother of Gemma Winter. He won 2020 National Television Award for Best Newcomer.

Personal life

He is a second cousin of fellow actor William Ash.
In 2014, he was living in Mossley.