Nick Wilton

Nicholas Wilton is an English actor and scriptwriter. He has appeared as Mr Lister in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" as a recurring character; he has also appeared in "Carrott's Lib", "Fast Forward" and "Jackanory".
Early life.
Wilton studied English and Drama at the University of Kent. His first professional engagement was in 1979 as a bluecoat entertainer at a Pontins holiday camp, he then spent two years as a stage manager in theatres and then moved onto to acting.
Career.
Acting.
Wilton made his acting debut in 1980 in the Whitehall farce "Simple Spymen", directed by Brian Rix and went on to play opposite Rix in the West End revival of "Dry Rot" at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue in 1988. He has appeared in many television 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". 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 1984–1987.
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 2010 and 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".
Pantomime.
He first performed in pantomime in 1987 and as a dame every Christmas since 2000.
Awards and nominations.
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 and Doug Naylor.