David Crellin was born in South Yorkshire in 1961. He first became interested in acting with the Crucible Youth Theatre in Sheffield under the guidance of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Michael Boyd, and he went on to attend the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in London. However, upon graduation he returned to the North of England, albeit on the other side of the Pennines, moving to Horwich in Greater Manchester with his wife and children. He played Alan Wakefield in the Bafta award winning series "The Cops" for BBC 2, was Billy Hopwood in ITV's "Emmerdale" and has provided "Coronation Street" with assorted Gangsters and Nerds.
