Career
Fogerty was born in Oldham, Lancashire. Fogerty's boxing career saw him facing a number of opponents. He twice faced Paul Lister, with their first meeting in 1989 handing Fogerty his first and only loss in a 6-round decision. He repaid the favour with an 8th round knockout of Lister the next year. After ending his boxing career, Fogerty joined Halifax RLFC. He also played for Warrington, and won a Super League medal with St Helens. Additionally, Fogerty is the youngest player to play for the Isle of Man rugby team aged 15.
Beginning in the early '90s, Fogerty began acting and has played supporting roles in several films such as Shooting Fish and Played, as well as the unlicensed boxer, Gorgeous George, in the Guy Ritchie crime caper Snatch. He played Mouse in Mean Machine and Raw in Greenfingers. He has also worked on soaps Coronation Street and Hollyoaks. In 2012 he joined Barrie Rutter's Northern Broadsides theatre company to play Costard in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.
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