Ricky Grover

Ricky Grover (born 24 December 1961) is an English actor and comedian. Born in West Ham, East London, he worked as a ladies' hairdresser and a boxer before becoming a stand-up comedian, actor and occasional television presenter; he is dyslexic and could not read or write until his early thirties. He is best known for his role in EastEnders as Andrew Cotton and for voicing Yangus in the Dragon Quest series, and one of his most regular characters is "Bulla", a violent offender who featured on The 11 O'Clock Show. His other television credits include Red Dwarf, Black Books, Getting On and Not Going Out, and his 1996 short film Punch won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2011 he starred in and co-wrote the feature-length film Big Fat Gypsy Gangster with his wife, Maria Grover. From 2003 he wrote the column "Raging Bulla" for the magazine Loaded until its final issue in 2015.