Channel 4 Friday Night Dinner star Paul Ritter’s quiet life in Faversham
msn.comRead more: Paul O'Grady leads tributes for EastEnders legend June Brown Ritter was actually born Simon Paul Adams on 20 December 1966 in Gravesend to a catholic family with four older sisters.
Here he would attend Gravesend Grammar School where he acquired an A Level in theatre studies before moving on to St John’s College in Cambridge.
Once he had graduated he went to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg, Germany. Upon his return to the UK, he adopted the stage name Ritter in honour of a German actor he admired, as there was already somebody with the name Simon Adams registered to his acting trade union.
He studied alongside fellow actor Steven Mangan and went on to a number of successful TV appearances during the mid-to-late 2000s, including roles in the likes of Nowhere Boy, Instinct and Pulling.
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