The man killed by a tiger at a Yorkshire zoo after jumping into the big cat's enclosure was once a 'passionate' child actor with TV roles under his belt.
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William Chapman, 24, in 2009 appeared in the two-part ITV comedy May Contain Nuts starring Shirley Henderson who is best known for playing Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter films.
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Mr Chapman played Alfie Chaplin, the son of Henderson's character Alice Chaplin who masqueraded as her 11-year-old daughter to take a school entrance exam in the acclaimed drama which also starred Darren Boyd.
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He also appeared in the BBC series True Stories about the lives of historical people in 2012 when he portrayed the English physician and scientist Edward Jenner as a boy before he became the father of immunology and the pioneer of vaccination.
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Mr Chapman had a further role in the ITV period drama series Breathless which aired in 2013 and featured hospital staff secretly performing illegal abortions in the 1960s, according to a blog post written in 2014 by his mother.
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But his acting work apparently largely stopped during his adolescence and he appeared to not have had any screen work for many years before his tragic death on Saturday in the tiger's cage at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster.
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The mother revealed her son's early enthusiasm for acting in her post 12 years ago, saying that he became a pupil at the Jackie Palmer Stage School in High Wycombe, Berkshire, when he was just four years old.
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She recalled in her blog how he was aged only around five when he went for an audition for May Contain Nuts.
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William Chapman, 24, was killed by a tiger at a Yorkshire zoo after jumping into the big cat's enclosure
A young Mr Chapman (far left) appeared in 2009 in the two-part ITV comedy May Contain Nuts starring Shirley Henderson (second from left) who is best known for playing Moaning Myrtle in the Harry Potter films
A young Mr Chapman at Madame Tussauds in London with 'Daniel Craig', playing James Bond
The 24-year-old was named as the victim of the
Describing his time at the stage school, she said: 'He has learnt a great deal in his time there, and whilst he doesn't enjoy singing and dancing so much now he's a teenager, he is passionate about acting and drama.
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Over the years he has attended many auditions, and I have a few stories to tell there…
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The most notable one was when he went for the part of Alfie in "May Contain Nuts" the ITV two part drama adaptation of John O'Farrell's satirical book.'
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She went on to describe having her car impounded after she left it on double yellow lines to get him to the audition in central London because she could not find a proper parking space.
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The mum wrote: 'William was only about five then, and unburdened by the nerves he can sometimes suffer from these days.
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He seemed to relax and thoroughly enjoy himself.
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We left and went back into the road, and walked to where I parked the car; only there was no car.
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With my car gone, and the kids in tears, I ran back into the casting agency and became somewhat hysterical.
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They were brilliant; they called Westminster Council and established where my car had been taken, then called me a taxi to get there.'
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The mother told how her son's other acting work includes roles on radio, commercials, children's TV, a Snow White panto, as well as filming & photo shoots for Oxford University Press and a part as an extra playing a 'tribal kid' in the Warner Bros film Pan in 2015.
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Her blog included a passage where Mr Chapman wrote about his experience on Pan, saying: 'Working as an extra in Pan is amazing; it's such an awesome experience!
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I normally had a 6.45am start at the rendezvous, where we travelled by minibus to Cardington Studios in Bedfordshire.
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'Luckily we always had a warm welcome and a warm breakfast to wake us up.
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Costume fitting and makeup took about an hour, but it was good to admire all the costumes.
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Once on set we were sheltering from the pirates under the ship's floorboards and we had to be terrified!
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Our chief gets shot by Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman), so remember to look out for that scene if you watch the movie.
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'After lunch we just did more tutoring then we went back on set for a retake of the earlier scene, but we were lucky enough to meet and say hi to Hugh Jackman!
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We gave him a high five, awesome right?
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His mother added: 'It was great to collect him at the end of a busy day, and hear him enthuse about a multitude of impressions such as: exploding mud, the energy of being on set, watching the actors practising their sword fighting skills, the delicious meals they had for lunch, meeting other young actors from a few other stage schools, including Levi Miller who plays Peter Pan.
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For most of June and some of July he was filming (about 15 days), so I'm hoping it won't be a case of blink and you'll miss him when I get to see it!
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It's due for release on 26th June 2015, I can't wait…'
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Mr Chapman posted a series of bizarre pictures and footage on social media in the days leading up to his decision to climb into the tiger's cage on Saturday.
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It included a terrifying video of the moment he entered the pen and approached a lone tiger lying on a raised wooden platform.
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Just minutes later, he was attacked and killed by the animal.
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In the background, he can be heard breathing heavily as shocked onlookers cry out 'oh my God'.
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His Instagram account included a selfie taken at the gym, which he uploaded to social media hours before sharing the video of him slowly approaching the big cat.
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Another picture shows him holding a bible and a crossbow while wearing the same clothes he had on when he entered the pen at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.
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In the image, shared on the day of his death, he has a crossbow bolt between his teeth.
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Eyewitnesses at the zoo told how Mr Chapman, who was described as vulnerable by police, had been dancing to music and had asked a parkgoer to take a picture of him with the 200kg male Siberian tiger, Altai, in the background.
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The scene at Yorkshire Wildlife Park on Saturday
A video, purporting to be filmed in the pen itself, shows Mr Chapman slowly approaching a wooden platform on which one of the tigers is resting
He then began climbing into the enclosure as a woman desperately tried to hold him back, before dropping 12ft to the floor.
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When the tiger attacked, Mr Chapman screamed 'stop' several times and appeared to make a gesture for 'bad' in Makaton – a sign language system generally used by individuals who struggle to communicate.
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The horrifying drama unfolded just minutes before emergency services were called at 1.35pm
It comes as a witness who took the final photograph of the man fought back tears as she pleaded with 'not very nice' trolls to think before they post.
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