Netflix The Bank of Dave 2 star Amit Shah's life from romance to Happy Valley confession

Amit Shah, who plays Oliver successful Netflix's The Bank of Dave 2, has been a regular connected our screens for the past 2 decades - but there's a batch much to cognize astir the actor.

Bank of Dave 2 features a big of recognisable faces, including Happy Valley histrion Amit Shah. But what other is determination to cognize astir him beyond the Netflix film?

It's been 2 years since the heartwarming 'true' communicative of Bank of Dave archetypal graced our screens connected Netflix, with The Diplomat prima Rory Kinnear taking connected the pb relation arsenic Dave Fishwick.

The sequel, The Loan Ranger, has present landed connected Netflix, with Dave enlisting the assistance of assorted individuals successful his quest to tackle payday lenders and indebtedness sharks who prey connected susceptible people.

Among these allies is Oliver (portrayed by Amit Shah), a section Citizens Advice counsellor who is much than consenting to enactment Dave's mission, and who finds himself increasing person to American fiscal writer Jessica (Chrissy Metz) on the way.

As Netflix subscribers delve deeper into Bank of Dave 2, here's everything you request to cognize astir the antheral down Oliver, histrion Amit Shah.

Early life

Shah was calved successful North London successful 1981, though his parents hailed from Kenya and his grandparents from Gujarat successful India.

His begetter worked arsenic an accountant portion his parent was employed astatine a health-food shop. Shah hadn't considered acting arsenic a vocation until helium was formed successful the pb relation successful a schoolhouse play astatine the property of 16.

This sparked his passionateness for performing, starring him to survey play astatine Staffordshire University earlier attending the renowned play schoolhouse LAMDA successful West London.

In 2003, helium was granted aboriginal graduation by the main to commencement rehearsals for Bombay Dreams, a West End philharmonic backed by nary different than Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber.

Happy Valley

Since his aboriginal days successful showbiz, Shah has graced our screens successful immoderate of the astir fashionable bid retired there, including Benidorm, Casualty, Hustle, Black Mirror, Fresh Meat, Silent Witness, His Dark Materials, The Witcher, and Mr Bates Vs The Post Office.

But it's his relation arsenic pharmacist Faisal Bhatti successful the Sally Wainwright BBC play Happy Valley that truly sticks out.

His quality was secretly supplying Joanna Hepworth (Mollie Winnard) with diazepam, and viewers were near gobsmacked erstwhile Faisal resorted to murder, bludgeoning her with a rolling pin.

Yet, Shah himself was successful the acheronian astir Faisal's fate. On the podcast Obsessed with...Happy Valley, helium confessed they changeable aggregate endings for the finale.

He divulged: "I inactive don't cognize however it each ends up for him due to the fact that we filmed the last scenes successful assorted antithetic ways."

"Sally [Wainwright, creator] was really directing those. So it's rather unfastened and we did antithetic options, truthful I'm not wholly definite however he's gonna extremity up."

Love life

The Bank of Dave histrion is rather backstage astir his off-screen escapades, keeping his idiosyncratic beingness firmly nether wraps, leaving fans funny astir what helium does distant from the limelight.

It's been revealed that he's successful a narration with Amy Green, a voiceover creator who, arsenic per her Instagram bio, is the "voice of Bixby", Samsung's virtual assistant.

While the duration of their narration remains private, speculation has arisen that they mightiness beryllium married, arsenic Shah has been spotted wearing a ringing connected his wedding digit successful caller photos.

What's adjacent

His IMDb illustration indicates that Shah volition look arsenic Sanjay successful the upcoming six-part bid Riot Women, which is presently successful post-production.

He'll beryllium sharing the surface with Sue Johnston of The Royle Family fame, who plays Auntie Mary, and different notable actors including Tamsin Greig from Friday Night Dinner, Joanna Scanlan of The Larkins, and Lorraine Ashbourne from Alma's Not Normal.

The show's premise is intriguing: "Follows a radical of middle-aged women, arsenic they signifier a punk-rock set to enactment successful a endowment contest".

Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger is disposable to ticker connected Netflix.