About John Middleton
John Middleton is best known for his part in ITV’s Emmerdale as Ashley Thomas, a role which he remained in from 1996 to 2017. After this he starred in a highly successful theatre tour of Strangers on a Train where he appeared as the American detective Arthur Gerard, alongside Christopher Harper, Jack Ashton and Hannah Tointon, directed by Anthony Banks for ATG.
He has appeared in many other TV programmes, most notably as John Hargreaves in Coronation Street. His first Emmerdale role was that of PC John Jarvis at the time of the Post Office raid in 1994. He landed the role of Vicar Ashley Thomas in December 1996.
In October 2014 Middleton was given the story that Ashley would be diagnosed with Vascular Dementia, which played out over the subsequent two and a half years. At the culmination of that story in 2017, when his character died, Emmerdale won the Broadcast, Royal Television Society, National Television.Award, BAFTA and British Soap Award for Best Soap and his story won Best Story and Best Episode.
He himself won Best Male Dramatic Performance and Best Actor. At the Yorkshire Royal Television Society Awards he won Best Actor and a Special Achievement award.
In the mid 90’s John appeared in a series of British Telecom adverts directed by John Madden.
He has also appeared in the following TV programmes: The Things You Do for Love, Against all Odds, The Round Tower, The Grand, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, The World of Lee Evans, The Gambling Man, Cracker, Heartbeat, Medics, In Suspicious Circumstances, Prime Suspect 3, Bad Company and Shadow of the Noose.
Represented by Gavin Barker Associates
About this actor headshot photography package
John chose our very popular ‘ Get Ahead ‘ actor headshot photography package. Get Ahead is all about helping an actor get a head in the industry. Getting ahead, means getting more castings, resulting in more opportunities to get work. To help an actor get ahead we will create a great go-to or flagship headshot. This is the first headshot you see on Spotlight and your agents website. A great headshot will make a great first impression. A great headshot captures your personality, beauty, energy, character, and your confidence radiates through it. It must represent who you are, your essence, spirit, quirks, flaws, and features. But a go-to headshot can only go so far in helping an actor get more castings. Sometimes a casting director cannot visualise an actors suitability for a part from their go-to headshot alone. This is why we create another 3 contrasting headshots for the actor with a view to expanding type and stretching playing age.
