Paul Usher is an English actor. He was educated at Wirral Grammar School for Boys, Bebington, and is best known for playing Barry Grant in Brookside, from the first episode until the last, and PC Des Taviner in The Bill from 2001 to 2004. He has also appeared in Liverpool 1 and London's Burning and starred in Six Bend Trap, an Ironopolis Film Company with Lisa Riley and local actors from the Teesside Area. He appeared in Swing with Lisa Stansfield and Hugo Speer and in Robin Hood, in the penultimate episode of series two. He met wife Charlotte, who is from Kent, while working on The Bill. They married in Rhodes, have one child, Lucas, and live in Kent. 

April 20th, 1961 in Reading (Age 63)