Colin Tarrant was an English actor who was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire.
Tarrant studied for a degree in English and Drama at Exeter University, then at the cutting edge of dramaturgy. He briefly worked as a teacher before taking up acting, first at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter and then with Medium Fair Community Theatre Company, Exeter 1975/77 (a company developed from the university drama department). After leaving Medium Fair he was part of Peter Cheeseman's company at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent. He worked with Foco Novo, Shared Experience, the RSC and the Leicester Phoenix Arts Centre. His first major television role, was that of "Will Brangwen" in the BBC's adaptation of The Rainbow in 1988.
In June 2005, he played "Brian Clough" in the Nottingham Playhouse's production of Old Big 'Ead in the Spirit of the Man. The play returned several times to the Nottingham Playhouse and played in other venues across England. He followed this with the role of the "Vagrant Davies" in a Nottingham Playhouse production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. He starred as the "Old Gent" in a new adaptation of The Railway Children at the National Railway Museum. In 2009 he starred with Stephanie Turner in Honeymoon Suite at the New Vic in Basford. Tarrant performed in a nationwide tour of Calendar Girls which began in Chichester in January 2010.
