Life and career

Sheffield was born in Chelmsford. The second son of Brenda (née Dare) and Barry Sheffield, Sheffield trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Ballet School, graduating into the Royal Ballet, and also dancing with Northern Ballet Theatre. Roles with the Royal Ballet included Aria in The Spirit of Fugue, Paris in Romeo and Juliet, Benno in Swan Lake, He in My Brother, My Sisters, Wilfred in Giselle, Rakitin in A Month in the Country and Mouse King in The Nutcracker.

He appeared as a dancer in Queen's music video for "I Want to Break Free" in 1984, performing in a pastiche of the ballet L'après-midi d'un faune. However, his ballet career ended at the age of 27 due to a broken toe and torn ligament. He had a prominent (non dancing) music video role several years later when he played the male lead in the video for Natalie Imbruglia's debut single "Torn" in 1997.

Since then, Sheffield has been in the BBC medical drama series Holby City where he played Alex Adams from 2000-03, as well as Lancelot in the 1998 television drama Merlin. He had a supporting role in the 2005 film The Wedding Date alongside Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney. Subsequently he made a cameo appearance in the final episode of Green Wing, playing a character that Sue White (played by Michelle Gomez) was dating.

In 2005 he appeared in the British and Irish Renault Clio advert "France vs. Britain" directed by Ridley Scott’s daughter Jordan Scott who also the directed the 2007 follow up spot "More Va Va Voom" again starring Sheffield as Ben and French actress Annelise Hesme as Sophie. He regularly features on the BBC's Holiday programme in which he has visited Mexico, Egypt, Sichuan, South Africa and Bermuda. In 2006 travelled to South Africa where eight celebrities competed to become rangers in a South African reserve, for the 2007 series of BBC2's Safari School. In the final, Sheffield came second to singing coach Carrie Grant.

In 2007, Sheffield made an appearance in New Tricks. 2008 was a busier year for him with a role in Hotel Babylon and movies Miss Conception, The Children and Last Chance Harvey.

In January 2010, he took part in ITV show Dancing on Ice alongside professional skater Susie Lipanova. He was the third person to be voted off (therefore finishing the contest in 12th place) after losing in the skate-off.

In October 2011, it was announced that Sheffield would be joining Coronation Street and would portray Danny Stratton. Sheffield's Coronation Street stay was only short as he was part of a storyline that saw Becky McDonald (Katherine Kelly) depart.

In October 2012, it was announced that he would be joining the cast of Hollyoaks to portray Patrick Blake, the biological father of twins Sienna Blake (Anna Passey) and Dodger Savage (Danny Mac). In 2015, it was reported that Sheffield was written out of the show and was announced that he would be killed off.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1995	Safe Haven	Sean
1997	Anna Karenina	Boris
2003	The Confidence Trick	Walter
2004	Creep	Guy
2005	The Wedding Date	Jeffrey
2008	Miss Conception	James
	The Children	Robbie
	Last Chance Harvey	Matt
2010	StreetDance 3D	Michael
	The Long Lonely Walk	JD	Short film
	The Power of Three	Film Star
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Dark Season	Guard	Episode 1.4
	The Governor	Dr. Thomas	Episode 1.6
1998	Merlin	Lancelot	Television miniseries TV film
	Her Own Rules	Lucas Kent	TV film
2000-2003	Holby City	Alex Adams	Cast member
2002	Linda Green	Stan Peterson	1 episode Blind Date
2003	The Afternoon Play	Tom Rourke	1 episode Coming up For Air
	Grease Monkeys	Mark Miller	1 episode Last Man Standing (BBC TV series)
	Hearts of Gold	Dr. Andrew John	BBC TV film won BAFTA Cymru Awards for Best Costume and Best Sound
2004-2005	Murder in Suburbia	DCI Sullivan	Cast member
2006	Bombshell	Major Nicholas Welling	Cast member
	Blue Murder	Paul Cochran	1 episode In Deep
	Green Wing	Jeremy	1 episode Christmas special
2007	New Tricks	Chris Parr	1 episode Fathers's Pride
2008	Hotel Babylon	Adam Price	2 episodes
2009	Personal Affairs	Dr. Richard Palmer
2011-2012	Coronation Street	Danny Stratton	Recurring role
2012-16	Hollyoaks	Patrick Blake	Regular role
Music videos
Year	Title	Role	Noteepisodes
1984	I Want to Break Free	Dancer	Queen music video
1997	Torn	Boyfriend	Natalie Imbruglia music video

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