John C Hyland was born at Upton Hospital, Slough Buckinghamshire to an English mother and Irish father. The third child of four.

Raised in Slough attending Holy Family Infant and Primary Schools. Later attending Churchmead Secondary, in Datchet.

After leaving school John undertook Day-Release studies while working for ICI Paints Division, Dulux. After graduating from Langley and Slough's colleges obtaining an ONC in Science from Langley and an HNC in Chemistry and Paint Technology from Slough.

In 1988 John moved to Bath and read Chemistry at the University of Bath After which he graduated with a Master degree in Advanced Analytical Studies from Bristol Univerisity.

Later in life, John would graduate with a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Studies from the University of Liverpool. John meet Christine Stöckli in 1986 and they got married in Flumserberg, St Gallen, Switzerland in 1989. They separated in the year 2000 (divorced in 2002). John moved address 26 times in 20 years across 4 countries since he left his parent's home in 1986. He lives in Basel, Switzerland.

John is working for the Basel Panto Theater and was part of different English based movie.

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John Conleth Hyland

Actor