Adam Best (actor)

Adam Best (born 16 November 1982 in Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland) is an actor from Northern Ireland who trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for 3 years. He attended Donaghadee Primary School and Bangor Grammar School and gained experience with the Ulster Youth Theatre and Drama School.

Best played Matt Parker on the BBC One drama Holby City. He has also appeared in episodes of Silent Witness, The Bill and Waking the Dead as well as The Catherine Tate Show 2007 Christmas Special. In 2011, Best took part in an advertisement for Meteor.

Filmography

• Silent Witness (2004) as Young David Kelman
• Star Spell (2005) as himself
• Holby City (2005–2007) as Matt Parker
• The Catherine Tate Show Christmas Special (2007) as himself
• The Bill - (2009) as Conor Deegan
• Waking the Dead (2009) as Fr Quinn
• Cup Cake (2010) as PJ Johnson
• Blooded (2011) as Ben Fitzpatrick
• Meteor Advertisement (2011) as himself

Radio

• John Walkers Blues

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Company	Director |	Notes
2014	Long Day's Journey into Night	James Tyrone Jr.	Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh	Tony Cownie

Other stage roles include:

• The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1998) as Old Man
• The Wizard of Oz (2000) as Wizard
• Blackout (2003) as Danny.
• The Woman in Black (2012) as The Actor
• Public Enemy (2013) as Horster
• The Beauty Queen of Leenane as Pato; Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith), London (2021)

External links

• Holby.tv fan website
• Holby City website
• Adam Best at IMDb
• Holby.tv series 8 interview and profile