Biography

Jo Dow's first taste of acting came when he when he joined the National Youth Theatre at 14. Jo graduated from the Guildhall Drama School, played in rep in Cardiff and Leeds before joining the RSC in Les Liaisons Dangereuses in the West End, and Shared Experience at the Mermaid theatre in Nana. Jo credits his role as Under Secretary, Tim, in the BBC's No Job for a Lady (1990) with Penelope Keith as his first big television break. He then spent 4 years in 155 episodes of The Bill as P.C. Stringer in _"Bill, The" (1983)_, and then 3 series of ground-breaking medical show Cardiac Arrest as James Mortimer in Cardiac Arrest (1994) with Helen Baxendale and Flt. Lieutenant Jim Radcliffe in BBC's Invasion Earth (1998) both for Jed Mercurio, show-runner of The Body Guard. Jo also appeared in Jed's Line of Duty. Jo played main characters in all the staples of UK Tv - Peak Practise, Eastenders, Game On (as Mr Perfect) Piece of Cake, Crocodile Shoes, Londons Burning, Sooty and Sweep, Where The Heart Is, Casualty, Dangerfield, Murder Most Horrid, and dramas for Linda La Plante, and Jimmy McGovern. More recently he starred in Agatha Raisin, and over 300 episodes of daytime drama Family Affairs as 'Jim Webb.' He also worked in Irish theatre with Stephen Rae in 'The Plough and the Stars' at Dublin's Gaiety theatre, and in Amazing Grace at the Abbey theatre.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jo Dow