Andy Wear is an English actor born in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Wear starred in three series of the Children's ITV video game programme Bad Influence! as the character Nam Rood, who presented the segment on cheat modes for games. He also played Stan in the UK edition of Big Bag from 1996–1999. He has appeared in two episodes of Heartbeat. He played Alun in "Out of the Blue" in 2003 and Harry Healey in "Fall Out" in 1998. He played Billy Hooper in an episode of The Grand. From 2011 to 2014 he played Jude Watson in the ITV soap Emmerdale.