A History Of Liverpool Thespians - Raymond Waring

 

Raymond Waring was born on the 21st of July 1977 in Bootle, Liverpool and grew up in Runcorn, Cheshire, where he attended St. Chad's Secondary School. In 1994 he was accepted into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, furthering his passion for acting. He later attended the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 1997 after appearing in 'Scene' (1996), a mixture of fictional and non-fictional thought-provoking short films aimed at students of school and college. He then appeared in various films, such as 'Submerged' (2001), 'Lucky Break' (2001), directed by Peter Cattaneo, and collaborations with Michael Winterbottom on '24 Hour Party People' (2002) and 'Merseybeat' (2002).

as Whizzer in 'Yes'

 

More appearances on TV included 'Cheeeky' (2003), Sally Potter's 'Yes' (2004), the TV movie, 'Line of Fire: The Somme' (2005), 'The Bill' (2007) and 'White Lightnin' ' (2009). He was also in the films  'A Cock and Bull Story,' (2006) as Corporal Trim and 'The Look of Love.' 2013) as a reporter, as well as Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's '28 Weeks Later' (2007) and 'Intruders.' (2011). More appearances followed in 'Ripper Street' (2014), 3 episodes in the historical epic 'Knightfall' (2017-18) as Daniel, and then as a Spectre agent in 'No Time to Die' (2021).

In 2022, he portrayed Steve Hart in the Hillsborough disaster miniseries 'Anne,' starring alongside a powerhouse performance from Maxine Peake, whose Anne Williams is all pent-up pain and banked fires. Raymond, as traumatised survivor Steve Hart, helps her bring home the ongoing physical and mental damage that the Hillsborough disaster and its drawn-out aftermath has inflicted on families and survivors alike in a fine understated portrayal.

'Warn Them of the Danger'

 

Then in 2024 at Smithdown Social in Liverpool he performed in 'Warn Them of the Danger', a theatrical, visceral collage exploring the boundaries of violence and belief and indeed theatre itself based upon the 1957 story of 'alien contactee' James Cooke, from Runcorn, Cheshire. The story revolves around James Cooke, a furniture salesman, who, on the 7th of September 1957 claimed to have been taken from Runcorn, Cheshire by aliens to a planet named Zomdic in a distant galaxy. On Zomdic he is given a stark message for the human race – 'Warn them of the danger'.  On his ‘return’ to Earth, Cooke founded 'The Church of Aquarius' in Runcorn, dedicated to warning the human race of the danger of nuclear weapons and the destruction of the planet’s ecology. First performed at the Horse Hospital, London in 2019, it was written by Raymond and Claire Monica Burgess, with music by Peter Cattermoul.  

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