Kevin Trainor is an actor from Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland. He attended St Colman's College in Newry before going up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he read English. He is notable for portraying the younger version of Trevor Bruttenholm (played as an older man by John Hurt) in the film Hellboy, as the character John in The Catherine Tate Show (from the "Ulster Mum" series of sketches) and Charles Adams in the HBO miniseries John Adams.
During his time at Cambridge, he appeared as the Fool in Shakespeare's King Lear and as Ahab in Moby Dick—Rehearsed at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, a theatre which he recently returned to while touring Jonathan Harvey's new play, Canary. He also joined the European Theatre Group, joining their 1998-99 continental tour of Measure for Measure as Angelo. He then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 2001 to 2004 (making an early cameo appearance in the 2001 film The Hole before graduating in 2004) and appeared in the 2005 Royal Shakespeare Company season.
He is starring, until March 12th, in 'By Jeeves', a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn, at the Landor Theatre in Clapham, London. He is off-stage for just 30 seconds during the production.
In 2011 Trainor appeared in the Sky1 TV comedy drama The Cafe as living statue character Keiran Barker.
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