Kelvin Fletcher was born on 17th January 1984 in Oldham, Lancashire, UK. At the age of seven, Kelvin started going to Saturday morning drama sessions at the Oldham Theatre Workshop and was first seen on television when it was featured in a Saturday Disney report and he was starring as Charlie in Charlie Is My Darling, which he also performed in a special show at the London Palladium. His other major stage performance was as Tom Sawyer in a play of the same name at the Grand Theatre, Manchester. Kelvin's big break came in TV soap Emmerdale , following a string of television roles, in programmes such as In Suspicious Circumstances, Cracker, Heartbeat and Chiller. He also co-presented an episode of You've Been Framed with Jeremy Beadle. The young actor was thrilled to get a trip to South Africa simply to film a Persil advert.