Ray Shell

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Ray Shell is an African-American film, TV and stage actor, as well as an author, director and producer.

He is famous for creating the roles of Nomax in Five Guys Named Moe and Rusty in Starlight Express. He is a creative director of The Giant Olive Theatre Company, resident company at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town.

In 2008, Shell wrote about his appearance in and the closure of the musical Gone With The Wind for the Guardian newspaper. After arriving in London in 1978 with the Gospel musical Little Willie Jnr's Resurrection, Shell immediately became part of the London's New Wave music scene recording with Howard Devoto's Magazine, covering Kate Bush's Them Heavy People. He went on to record with his own band The Street Angels, featuring a "pre Simon Cowell" Sinita, Carl Mckintosh and Charita Jones.