Kelvin Fletcher

British actor and racing driver (born 1984)

Kelvin Warren Fletcher (born 17 January 1984) is an English actor, model, racing driver presenter and farmer. He played Andy Sugden in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, a role he played from 1996 until 2016. In 2019, Fletcher won the seventeenth series of Strictly Come Dancing with his professional partner Oti Mabuse.

Fletcher attended Mayfield Primary School in Derker, Greater Manchester for his primary school education, and North Chadderton School, Chadderton for his secondary education. Born the oldest of three boys, his youngest brother, Brayden Fletcher, was also a child actor, appearing in Coronation Street in 1996. His half sister is actress and musician, Keeley Forsyth. At the age of six, Fletcher started attending drama classes at the Oldham Theatre Workshop

In 2021 Fletcher and his wife, Liz Marland, bought a 120 acre plot of land in the village of Wincle nr Macclesfield in Cheshire with the plan to set up a farm. Their efforts were filmed for a BBC TV series, Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure which aired in January 2022. In 2023 the couple filmed a new series on the farm for ITV, Fletchers' Family Farm which consisted of 8 hour long episodes as well as a special Fletchers' Family Farm at Christmas broadcast on 24 December 2023. Since leaving Emmerdale, Fletcher has appeared in Death in Paradise and Moving On. In January 2022, he played the part of Jack in The Teacher alongside Sheridan Smith.

Fletcher first ventured into motor racing after a visit to a motoring show with his father in January 2012. Fletcher signed a contract to drive a Chevrolet Cruze entered by the Power Maxed Racing team in the 2016 British Touring Car Championship in March that year. He missed the Knockhill Racing Circuit and the Rockingham Motor Speedway rounds because his wife was due to give birth to their first child. Dave Newsham drove his car instead. During the season, Fletcher competed in 24 races spread over eight rounds of three events. He scored no points and was 31st in the final drivers' championship standings. For the 2017 season, Fletcher moved to the British GT Championship and shared a Nissan 370Z Nismo with fellow driver Tim Eakin for the UltraTek Racing RJN in the GT4 category. He was mentored by FIA World Endurance Championship and 24 Hours of Le Mans class victor Martin Plowman during his rookie season. After three years of running in GT4 with Plowman, they will move up to the GT3 class in a Bentley Continental.

Fletcher married fellow actor Elizabeth Marsland, whom he had known since the age of eight, in a secret ceremony on 28 November 2015. They have a daughter and a son and more recently twin boys. Fletcher is also a fan of rugby league; growing up, he was a fan of Paul Sculthorpe and Kevin Sinfield as they were both from Oldham, and he makes occasional appearances at testimonial matches of famous players.

Year Title Role Notes1994 Three Seven Eleven Darren Main cast; 10 episodes Cracker Boy Episode: "The Big Crunch: Part 3"1995 Chiller Gordon Episode: "Number Six" Heartbeat Colin Ellis Episode: "Unfinished Business" 1996 Coronation Street Lad Episode: #1.3987 1996–2016 Emmerdale Andy Sugden Regular role; 2,134 episodes2012Who Wants to be a Millionaire Himself (with his brother Brayden)'Schools Out' Episode 2018 The Shore Steve Main cast 2019 Strictly Come Dancing Contestant (partnered with Oti Mabuse) Series winner2021 Death in Paradise Gavin Jackson Episode: #10.3Moving OnNathanEpisode: "More Than Words" 2022Kelvin's Big Farming AdventureHimself6 episodesThe TeacherJack3 episodes McDonald and DoddsDonovan JanawayEpisode: "A Billion Beats"2023Fletchers' Family FarmHimself8 episodes plus Christmas special2024Father BrownBrian FlemingEpisode: #11.1 "The Kembleston Olimpicks"