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Brennan Brown | |
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| Born | November 23, 1968 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University (MFA) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
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 .
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 .
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| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 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 Goodrich | TV 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 Foster | 2 episodes | |
| 2010 | Billy Green | The LA Executive | Unknown 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 Donnelly | 9 episodes |
| 2013 | Gilded Lilys | Mr. Lavage | TV 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 Ward | 8 episodes |
| Mozart in the Jungle | Edward Biben | 8 episodes | |
| 2015 | Focus | Horst | |
| 2015–2019 | The Man in the High Castle [5] | Robert Childan | series regular (season 2–4), recurring (season 1) |
| 2015–present | Chicago Med [6] | Dr. Sam Abrams | Recurring Role |
| 2018 | The Sinner | Lionel Jeffries | 3 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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