Brennan Brown

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Brennan Brown
Born (1968-11-23) November 23, 1968 (age 55)
Education Yale University (MFA)
OccupationActor
Years active2000–present
Spouse
(m. 1998)
Children1

Brennan Brown (born November 23, 1968) is an American film, television, and stage actor. He currently plays Dr. Samuel Abrams on NBC's Chicago Med . He played Robert Childan on Amazon's Man in the High Castle .

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Career

He received his MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama. [1]

He first came to widespread attention in the UK for playing "Mr. Dresden" the spoof film board executive in Orange UK's long-running series of cinema adverts. [2] Brown's other film and television credits include I Love You Phillip Morris with Jim Carrey; [3] Focus opposite Will Smith and Margot Robbie; [4] State of Play ; Turn the River ; two seasons playing Edward Biben on Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle ; [5] HBO's John Adams playing Robert Treat Paine; and two seasons playing Special Agent Nicholas Donnelly on Person of Interest .

Brown has appeared in numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway stage productions. At the Atlantic Theater he appeared in Harold Pinter's Celebration and Ethan Cohen's Offices . At the National Actor's Theater he appeared in Aeschylus' The Persians and Pirandello's Right You Are (If You Think You Are) . He played Snobby Price in The Roundabout Theatre Company's Major Barbara .

Filmography

Film and Television
YearFilmRoleNotes
2000-2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Attorney Brendan Walsh
Defense Attorney
"Asunder"
"Paranoia" [uncredited]
2001 Deadline Engineer"Somebody's Fool"
The Education of Max Bickford Ron Zinn"A Very Great Man"
2001–09 Law & Order Forensic Technician
Donald Houseman
Attorney Hoyt
3 episodes
2002 Monday Night Mayhem Bob GoodrichTV movie
2003–09 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Jerry Rivers
Merrill
2 episodes
2006 Kidnapped Paul Levine"Sorry, Wrong Number"
2007 The Girl in the Park Man Fan
Turn the River Randolph
2008 John Adams Robert Treat Paine 2 episodes
Gossip Girl Mr. Smith"Bonfire of the Vanity"
2009 I Love You Phillip Morris Larry Birkheim
Damages Arthur Phillips"I Agree, It Wasn't Funny"
State of Play Andrew Pell
Ugly Betty Miles Foster2 episodes
2010 Billy Green The LA ExecutiveUnknown episodes
Agatha Christie's Marple Hailey Preston"The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"
2011 Detachment Greg Raymond
2012–13 Person of Interest Special Agent Nicholas Donnelly9 episodes
2013Gilded LilysMr. LavageTV movie
Breaking Bad US Attorney"Granite State"
2014 The Blacklist Dr. Nikolaus Vogel"Berlin (No. 8)"
Elementary Kevin Elspeth"Enough Nemesis To Go Around"
2014–15 Beauty & the Beast Captain/Chief Ward8 episodes
Mozart in the Jungle Edward Biben8 episodes
2015 Focus Horst
2015–2019 The Man in the High Castle [5] Robert Childanseries regular (season 2–4), recurring (season 1)
2015–present Chicago Med [6] Dr. Sam AbramsRecurring Role
2018 The Sinner Lionel Jeffries3 episodes
2019 The Wolf Hour [7] Hans
Midway Commander Joseph Rochefort [8]
Bull Attorney Steve Perry"Labor Days"
2022 Not Okay Harold

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