Born in Waltham Abbey, Essex, Vincent Allen turned professional in 1982 making his film   debut that same year as ‘Spud’ in ‘Just a walk in the dark’ written and directed by Udayan Prasad (My Son the Fanatic, Brothers in Trouble). T.V work then followed including two episodes of Nigel William’s ‘Johnny Jarvis’ for the B.B.C and an episode of ‘Minder’ with Denis Waterman and George Cole in 1984, in which he played ‘Barney’ the delinquent son of ‘Joaney’ played by June Brown. Video work includes the comic rock opera ‘Shock Opera’ by acclaimed screen writer Howard Schuman (Rock Follies, Nervous Energy, Upline) in which he played ‘Denis Jonston’, a psychopathic skinhead banged up in borstal for arson, and ‘Brand values go dotty’ for supermarket giant TESCO with Prunella Scales. Stage performances include ‘Bob Cratchit’ in the King’s Theatre Southsea production of Charles Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ opposite Bryan Johnson, and ‘Craig’, the cockney wideboy, ideas man and male stripper, in Newpalm production’s national tour of the ‘cult’ comedy classic ‘Ladies Night’, which allegedly inspired the hit film ‘The Full Monty’.