Richard Mylan Net Worth, Income, Salary, Earnings, Biography

Richard Mylan (born 1973) is a Welsh actor and former dancer who has been on stage and in television productions.

In 1973, he was born in Swansea. He went to Birchgrove Junior School and played rugby there, winning the Swansea heat of the British ‘Disco Kids Championships’ in 1982. He left Swansea at the age of twelve to pursue dance at the Urdang Academy in London. His first professional role was as ‘Flat-Top’ in the roller-skating musical Starlight Express (1984) at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre, where he stayed for four years, first as ‘Flat-Top’ (he can be heard on the original-cast CD) and then as Electra the Electric Train.

 He was also a member of the funk group ‘Puppy Phat,’ which performed at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and other venues. Mylan is most known for his roles as Oliver in the 2004 television comedy Coupling, Chris in the 2007 and 2009 television series Grownups, and Joe Andrews in the BBC Wales drama Belonging (in 2006). Danny Flint in Where the Heart Is (2005 and 2006), Harry in Wild West (in 2004), Border Cafe, Ben Phillips in Bad Girls (in 2004-5), Leroy Jones in The Bill (in 1998-2001), and Doctors are among his other television credits (as Dr Simon Hills in 2004 and as Will Duncan in 2010). In 2009, he starred in the film City Rats.

 In 2007, he portrayed Peter in a cameo appearance on the TV comedy My Family. In Waterloo Road, he is presently portraying Simon Lowsley, the deputy headteacher. Richard is married to Catrin Powell, a Welsh actress best known for her performance in the Welsh-language TV series ‘Pobol y Cwm.’ Catrin gave birth to their son, Jaco, in 2005, and they reside in Cardiff.

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