Olivier's first role was in 1995 in the
Channel 4 production
Hearts and Minds with
Christopher Eccleston. In 1996, he started playing his first television role as Timothy "Tinhead" O'Leary in the Channel 4 soap opera
Brookside, and continued in the role until the show was cancelled in 2003. He also appeared in the one-off drama
Brookside: Unfinished Business, which followed the series in 2003. After leaving
Brookside, Olivier performed in two dozen
audio plays based on the
Doctor Who television series by
Big Finish Productions as a companion of the
Seventh Doctor named
Hex. He has also appeared as one of the guest regulars in the Channel 4 comedy sketch show
Bo Selecta. Popular with gay audiences, Olivier hosted
Mr Gay UK in 2005 and appeared on-stage at several
Gay Pride events. Olivier appeared nude in the December 2008 and April 2009 editions of the gay magazine
Attitude. In 2005, he won the Channel 4
reality TV show
The Games, dominating the competition from start to finish. After displaying an impressive physique in the series, Olivier went on to do a number of photo shoots and released calendars from 2006 to 2009. In 2006 he appeared as Jimmy Price, a self-centred professional footballer who sustains a broken leg in
The Royal episode "From This Day Forward". Olivier appeared in a celebrity edition of
Come Dine with Me in February 2009. He competed alongside
Christopher Biggins,
Julia Bradbury and
Edwina Currie and finished second to Biggins, the eventual winner. During February and March 2009, Olivier competed in "Escape from Takeaway Prison", a section on ''
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
, which he won on 21 March 2009. Olivier also appeared in an episode of Missing
, a BBC One afternoon drama, playing club owner and gangster Mark Stone in March of the same year. 2009 also saw Olivier start to perform in musicals. He starred in Never Forget, about a Take That tribute band forming. He played the role of former stripper Dirty Harry. He also starred in the title role of the Camberley Theatre pantomime Dick Whittington''. In 2014, Olivier first appeared in the sixth series of
Benidorm as the troublesome Jason Gallagher. He reprised the role in 2015. In 2019, he appeared in the LGBT short film
Just Me co-starring actor Carl Loughlin. The film addressed the theme of accepting your sexuality, and heterosexual men who have sex with men. The film gathered a lot of attention in the LGBT press, including an interview in
The Advocate magazine.
Just Me was released in October 2019 by
Peccadillo Pictures as part of their "Boys on Film" collection. ==Personal life==