Ray Shell is an American film, TV and stage actor, as well as an author, director and producer. He was born on the September 22nd, 1951 in Saratoga County, North Carolina. He studied acting, voice and playwriting at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts from 1969 - 1974 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He has appeared in National Companies of Broadway shows such as Hair, The Me Nobody Knows, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Dirtiest Show In Town and has been a fixture in London’s West End since he arrived in the UK in 1978.