Josh Brown (actor)

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Josh Brown
Born19 February 1990
Occupation actor

Joshua Brown, is a British actor from Leeds. He is best known for playing Alex Pickering in the long-running BBC school drama, Grange Hill and for the main role of Matt in the Being Human spin-off Becoming Human . [1] He has also appeared in another long-running series, Casualty . [2] He guest starred in an episode of Holby City as a character called Frankie Moores. [3] Joshua has filmed episodes for series 5 of Waterloo Road. [4]

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Brown was born in Leeds and grew up in Batley. He attended the Stage 84 Performing Arts School in Bradford. [5]

In 2013, Brown started his acting school, the Joshua Brown School of Acting. [6]

Filmography (selection)

Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
2005 Casualty Darren SullivanTV series, 1 episode [2]
2005–2008 Grange Hill Alex PickeringTV series, 66 episodes, Lead
2007–2009 Holby City Frankie MoorsTV series, 5 episodes
2010: Waterloo Road Aiden KeenTV series, 1 episode
2011 Becoming Human Matt TV series, Lead, 8 episodes [7]
2011 Shameless MushroomTV series, 1 episode [7]
2012 Emmerdale Oli AppletonTV series, 4 episodes
Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
2014 The Knife That Killed Me Billy
2017They Finally Made a Handmaid's Tale for Men

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References

  1. Dan Martin (31 January 2011). "Becoming Human: meet the cast". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Grange Hill News - The weekly news from GH online". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011.
  3. Lintons (30 September 2008). "News. Holby City". Lintonmanagement.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  4. "Becoming Human: meet the cast". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  5. "Student Success". Stage84.com. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  6. "TV star to pass on craft. TV TALENT Joshua Brown has set up his own acting school". batleynews.co.uk. 25 October 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
  7. 1 2 "BBC - Becoming Human".