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 Don Gilet
After getting his big break playing nice but daft Johnny Lindo in Babyfather, Don Gilet went on to front detective series 55 Degrees North. 2006's The Line of Beauty sees him play young gay man Leo Charles.
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Don appears in Andrew Davies adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize winning novel The Line of Beauty as Leo Charles, the first love of main character Nick Guest.
He starred in Newcastle-set police drama 55 Degrees North, alongside Dervla Kirwan. He played Detective Sergeant Dominic "Nicky" Cole, an ambitious young cop dealing with relocation to Newcastle from London - and working constant night shifts.
Don's first TV acting job was on The Imaginitively Named Punt and Dennis Show, but his big break came in 2001 with Babyfather, a BBC TWO drama based on the books by Patrick Augustus.
An early job was hosting a children's show called Playabout with Floella Benjamin*. He's very embarrassed about it saying, "I had to do all that kiddie stuff, like being a big wobbly jelly. I had my hair greased back in what I thought was a very slick kind of way. Actually I looked like one of The Pasadenas. A Pasadena doing a jelly - that was me! How not cool is that?"
He has guest starred in episodes of Silent Witness, and Cutting it.
Other programmes he's appeared in include Casualty, Holby City, and Time Gentlemen Please.
His theatre credits include Orlando in As You Like It at the Royal National Theatre, and the lead role in a critically acclaimed production of Ben Johnson's The Alchemist at London's Riverside Studios.**The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.
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He sometimes works as a club DJ in North London.
One of his favourite performers is comedian Richard Pryor.
"The door has opened a little bit wider, but it hasn't been flung open," says Don about being a black actor. "People haven't just gone and said, 'let's give loads of black people parts', but certainly people realise that we can do it."
Don lists his skills as including breakdancing to an excellent standard, and stage fighting. He often performs his own stunts on set.
He appeared in the video for Gabrielle's Out of Reach.
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He was brought up in Walsall.
He has two older sisters.
He is currently dating Tyneside actress Tracy Whitwell, who he met on the set of 55 Degrees North when they filmed a brothel scene together.
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