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Harry Cadby

British actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ135509061
Source-derived summary

Harry Cadby is a British actor. On television, he is known for his roles in the BBC series Red Rose (2022) and Dope Girls (2025), and the Netflix series Everything Now (2023). His films include Little Bone Lodge (2023).

Career

He trained at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In 2022, he appeared in BBC One drama series Inside Man alongside Lydia West. He appeared in BBC 3 horror series Red Rose and British horror film Little Bone Lodge with Joely Richardson and Neil Linpow, prior to having a leading role in Netflix coming-of-age drama series Everything Now alongside Sophie Wilde, and written by Ripley Parker.

In February 2025, he had a leading role in the short drama film Heirlooms, about suicide bereavement. He had a small role in 2025 musical drama film O'Dessa. In 2025, he could also be seen in BBC One historical crime drama series Dope Girls. In April 2025 he was reported to be joining Brenda Blethyn and Emmett J. Scanlan in the Channel 4 reboot of the Barbara Taylor Bradford bestselling novel, A Woman of Substance.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Harry Cadby” as british actor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2025, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Harry, Cadby and British can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as british actor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q135509061. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022, 2025 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from Harry Cadby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.