Bio
Alex Ferns is a Scottish actor best known for his role as Trevor Morgan, "Britain's most-hated soap villain", on the soap opera EastEnders, from 2000-2002.
Born in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, he lived in South Africa for 17 years and completed a Performers Diploma in Speech and Drama at the University of Cape Town, from 1991-1993.
Alex made an appearance in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) before leaving South Africa to live in the UK, where he has played various TV roles, including EastEnders.
He cites a scene in EastEnders in which he had to push Little Mo's face into a Christmas dinner as his most stressful filming experience.
He has made guest appearances on numerous television shows including The Bill, Taggart, Holby City, Doctors and Casualty. He also played the role of Mark Antony in the 2006 docu-drama series Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire.
In 2003, Ferns played Career Officer Gordon in the highly-acclaimed trilingual film Joyeux Noël (in English Merry Christmas), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, Golden Globe Awards and the BAFTAs.
In 2004 he played Commander Martin Brooke, the lead role, in the short-lived ITV series Making Waves.
Ferns has also acted in a number of made-for-TV movies, including Black Velvet Band (1997) and Britannic (2000). He has appeared in the mini-series Rhodes (1996), Psychos (1999) and Low Winter Sun (2006).
His theatrical work includes the role of the "tapeworm" (a hallucination) in I.D., a play about Dimitri Tsafendas and his assassination of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.
He also played the title role (and sang, played guitar and drums) in the critically-acclaimed 1993 "blues musical" Dillinger, written and directed by Luke Tagg, which had runs at the Grahamstown Festival of the Arts and in Cape Town.
Ferns has been married to South African-born actress Jennifer Woodburne since 1996. They currently live in London with their son Cameron, who was born in 2002.
Ferns as Liam Carnegie in Low Winter Sun (2006)