Julian Peedle-Calloo | |
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Born | 1977 (age 46–47)
Oxfordshire, England |
Occupation(s) | Presenter, actor, writer, director |
Julian Peedle-Calloo (born 1977) is a British actor, writer, director and television presenter, he has been deaf since birth, and is a presenter of the BBC deaf magazine programme See Hear.
Julian Peedle-Calloo was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1977, and has been Deaf since birth. He regards himself as being part of a linguistic minority, rather than identifying his deafness as a disability; British Sign Language is his first language, and English (written and spoken) is his second language. He can hear a little with a hearing aid, but rarely uses one. [1] He graduated from the University of Wolverhampton with a 2:1 degree in electronic media in October 2000.
Peedle-Calloo wrote and directed the 30-minute drama film Battle Lines (2014), [2] about deaf people during the First World War, for online channel BSLZone. [3] His other short films include 5 Needles (2011) and Confession (2012).
He is a presenter on deaf magazine programme See Hear.
As an actor, he has appeared in episodes of New Tricks [4] and Holby City in 2012 and 2015 respectively.
In 2024, he was cast in BBC One series Reunion. [5]