Jim Millea

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Jim Millea (born 1 December 1958 in Stockton-on-Tees) is an English actor who currently plays shopkeeper Neville Ashworth in British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. But he first came to public attention in 1989 as Pete Whiteley in Emmerdale Farm, later Emmerdale, a married man who embarked upon an affair with teenager Rachel Hughes. Pete Whiteley was killed off and his embittered wife Lynn set about confronting Rachel. He also appeared in a one off special episode of EastEnders 'the return of Nick Cotton in 2000 playing a cell enemy named Colin

A role in the ITV children's drama Children's Ward followed in 1993, in which Millea played the parent of a patient who removes his son from the ward on learning one of the other patients is HIV positive.