Born in Bristol in the west of England, in the 1970s, Neil is an award-winning British character actor. With a background in stand-up and improvised comedy, he has been acting since the age of 15; trained in Bristol and London, Neil brings naturalism and physicality to screen roles. He has recently appeared in My Fault: London – the global #1 movie on Prime – as race instructor Derek Block. In 2024 Cole played photographer Brian Green in Season 13 of BBC One’s flagship drama, Call The Midwife, and as principal character Jarrod Edwards in sci-fi feature film Sentinel. As a core cast member of the Dark Ditties horror comedy anthology series, Neil embodies a wide range of characters from the cockney criminal Larry The Latch in Finders Keepers to comic misfit Kev Williams in The Witching Hour. In 2016 Cole won Best Actor In A Feature Film at the Urestricted View Horror Film Festival, London for his role as Pete in British horror comedy Stag Hunt.