Nigel Pivaro
Biography
Nigel Pivaro is a RADA-trained English actor and journalist. He is best known for playing Terry Duckworth, the son of Jack and Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street from 1983 to 1987. He returned to the role for recurring guest appearances throughout the '90s and '00s, his last appearance being in 2012. Other TV credits include Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Expert Witness. In 2002 he appeared in the film 24 Hour Party People. His stage credits include Wuthering Heights, What the Butler Saw, A Taste of Honey, The Tempest, Greek, An Evening with Gary Lineker, Funny Peculiar, A View from the Bridge, Up and Under, Bouncers and several pantomimes. As a journalist Pivaro has been published regularly in the Manchester Evening News, Tameside Reporter, Daily Star, Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror and Catholic Herald newspapers, along with Die Zeit Online and Jane's Defence Review. He has also written and presented documentary films for the BBC Inside Out series.
Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles
Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom. The show pushed forward the boundaries of youth TV, always coming close to going too far.
Drama Series - 1996, 16 episodes • as Constable Pearce
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.
Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • as Actor at Granada
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes • as Self - Guest
You're Back in the Room is a British television game show that was broadcast on ITV from 14 March 2015 to 9 April 2016. The show is hosted by Phillip Schofield and starred Keith Barry. The premise consists of contestants who have to complete a series of normally straightforward tasks after being subject to "deep hypnosis", causing them to be compelled to develop various distracting tics or quirks that hinder their ability to compete.