Career
He is best known for his teenage role as Liverpudlian scamp Ziggy Greaves in Grange Hill, a role he played from 1986 to 1989. The character was a hit with viewers, and Wilson himself has compared his alter-ego with the series" original hero, Tucker Jenkins. After Grange Hill, Wilson took on another high-profile role in the Channel 4 soap, Brookside, as Little Jimmy Corkhill.
He played the drug addict son of Jimmy Corkhill senior.
George has since taken on a variety of stage and film roles, and describes a play about the Hillsborough tragedy as one of the hardest things he"s ever had to do.
