Adam Fogerty


Adam Heywood Fogerty is an English actor and former boxer and rugby league footballer. He is the son of rugby league footballer Terry Fogerty, who played in the 1960s and 1970s then coached in the 1980s.

Career

Background

Fogerty was born in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Boxing

Fogerty's boxing career saw him facing a number of opponents. He twice faced Paul Lister, with their first meeting in 1989 handing Fogerty his first and only loss in a 6-round decision. He repaid the favour with an 8th-round knockout of Lister the next year.

Rugby league

After ending his boxing career, Fogerty joined Halifax. He also played for Warrington, and won a Super League medal with St. Helens. Fogerty is currently working with Toronto Wolfpack as assistant coach.
Beginning around the same time as his rugby league career, Fogerty began acting and has played supporting roles in several films such as Shooting Fish and Played, as well as the unlicensed boxer, Gorgeous George, in the Guy Ritchie crime caper Snatch. He played Mouse in Mean Machine and Raw in Greenfingers. He has also worked on soaps Coronation Street and Hollyoaks. In 2012 he joined Barrie Rutter's Northern Broadsides theatre company to play Costard in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.
In 2019, Fogerty was cast as an 'emergency plumber' for the British insurance company Direct Line. A television commercial starring Harvey Keitel.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1995Coronation StreetHitman1 episode
1995Coogan's RunIan Parry1 episode
1995, 1996HeartbeatKen Fairbrother2 episodes
1998EmmerdaleJez Hudson4 episodes
1999Queer as FolkRoger Clements1 episode
2000City CentralEd the Dog1 episodes
2001Forensic DoctorTV film
2002, 2006Ultimate ForceRostrum/Taras Rustum2 episodes
2003The RoyalBernieEpisode: Dead Air
2008CasualtyPaul 'Cutsy' CusickEpisode: Diamond Dogs
2008DoctorsSyd Harrington1 episode
2009HollyoaksJohnny Bishop1 episode
2017HollyoaksButler2 episodes
2019Coronation StreetPrison officerTBC