Some of his biggest roles include playing 1970s detective Ray Carling in the BBC series Life on Mars and its 1980s follow-up Ashes To Ashes.
More recently, viewers may recognise him as Robbie in Last Tango in Halifax, starring opposite Sex Derek Jacobi, Anne Reid, Nicola Walker and Sarah Lancashire.
Some of his other roles have included The Moorside, London Kills, Delicious, Torvill & Dean and Vera.
Dean’s first screen role according to IMDb was in 2001’s The Navigators before he landed a small role in EastEnders.
source: express.co.uk