Articles Where Are They Now: Meat Cast? By DJ Forrest

Broadcast February 6^th 2008

Written by Catherine Tregenna

Directed by Colin Teague

Series 2

When Torchwood investigate a lorry with a suspicious package of alien meat, Rhys finally discovers just who his girlfriend has been working for and finds himself working with the team to uncover and rescue a large sentient creature from a life of living torture at an abattoir in Cardiff.

Loved this episode – so full of witty dialogue, especially between Rhys and Jack.

Patti Clare

‘Ruth’

‘Leighton was their regular. Apart from that first booking, they just went through him.’

Patti Clare played Ruth who worked as secretary to Rhys Williams at Harwood's - You Won't be Sorry with a Harwood's lorry!!!

Since Torchwood, Patti is probably better known for her role as Mary Taylor and Mary Cole in Coronation Street where she's been for 10 years from 2008 - 2018. Patti also played Mrs Palmer in Casualty a year after Torchwood, and Geraldine Buck in Doctors, another medical drama in 2010.

In ITVs Text Santa, she played Mary Christmas for the 2014 edition. Text Santa if some aren't aware of it, is the annual ITV series that supports UK charities during the Christmas period and stars a multitude of well known celebrities.

Lee Baxter

‘Policeman at crash scene’

‘Stay back, please. (to Rhys) You’ll have to move your car. You can check on the vehicle later. (about removal of the lorry) Not yet. There’s something suspicious in the back. Torchwood want to look at it first.’

Lee Baxter (credited as Colin Baxter in episode) played the Policeman at the crash scene. Born in Liverpool in 1970, Lee has played a variety of different characters throughout his career, playing one character twice for a video short.

Since Torchwood Lee has reprised his role as Shawn Wellington for A Writer's Tale in 2008, after playing him in Bathroom Story in 2004. Played Malcolm Bricks in Shut in 2009 and Profile of Fear as Andrew Hanna in 2011.

Lee was in the 90s boy band Caught in the Act which began in 1992. Their first hit in 1995, was Love is Everywhere which reached number 8 in Switzerland. They were extremely successful in Germany even appearing in the soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. In 1998 they disbanded releasing their final studio album 'Solo 4 C.I.T.A.

Garry Lake

‘Vic’

‘Boys, you should’ve waited for the ketamine injection before doing that. That’s only lidocaine. It’s not strong enough.’

Garry played Vic, who despite his role seemed to hold some level of conscience regarding the alien creature secured in their warehouse.

Since his role in Torchwood, Garry played Owain in Made in Wales in 2013 in the episode Now or Never. He was a reporter in Harley and the Davidsons a mini series on television in 2016 in the episode Race to the Top and played a journalist in the Netflix series The Crown in the episode Pride & Joy in the same year.

Gerard Carey

‘Greg’

‘What happened to the meat? Did anyone see the meat?’

Gerard played Greg, brother to Dale, and partner of the Harries & Harries abattoir company. When Torchwood got wind of the sentient creature being carved up while still alive, Greg panicked and threw money from the safe for a quick get away, but was stopped in his tracks by Ianto Jones.

Gerard was also credited as Greg in the episode From Out of the Rain (noted as credit only) so not sure if he also appeared in the role or had been overlooked in the previous episode??

Since Torchwood, Gerard has played a variety of characters for some well known programmes including Michael Neville in Jack Taylor: The Magdalen Martyrs in 2011, Bernie Doyle in Titanic: Blood and Steel in 2012, Love/Hate as Dave from 2011 - 2014, and finally as Feeney in Paddy's in the Boot, a short film in 2015.

Matt Ryan

‘Dale’

‘You thought the two of you could take us out? Nah, you're not that stupid. Dave, get some ropes, tie their hands. I want every door locked, inside and out. Nobody leaves the building till this is sorted. Move it.’

Matt Ryan who was born Matthew Darren Evans played Dale in Torchwood episode Meat. The brother of Harries & Harries abattoir who had in their possession a cash cow. A meat supply that just kept giving.

Since Torchwood Matt is probably better known to fans as the character John Constantine who appeared in 13 episodes of the series of the same name from 2014 - 2015. Also reprising the role of the character for one episode of CW Arrow in 2015 for the episode Haunted. He was the voice of the character for Justice League Dark for the animated video in 2017, and the movie Constantine City of Demons animation in 2018, along with the animated series in the same year for 10 episodes (so far). He also played the role of John Constantine for 24 episodes of Legends of Tomorrow for a year from 2017 - 2018.

He is currently playing the role of Jake in Adverse, currently in production.

Before his role of John Constantine and after Torchwood, he played a few small roles until he played Mick Rawso in Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour for 13 episodes, appearing in many video shorts in 2011 relating to the series.

He provided the voice of Edward Kenway of Assassin's Creed IV: The Black Flag in 2013.

And played Joe O'Hara in The Halcyon in 2017 for 8 episodes.

Although there were a couple of small role actors in the episode, their names didn’t come up on the credits and so haven’t been able to list them here.