- Joe McGann
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name = Joe McGann
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1958|7|24|df=yes
birthplace =Liverpool ,Merseyside , UK
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yearsactive = 1983–Present
spouse =Joe McGann (born
24 July 1958 ) is an English actor. His most well known role was playing the lead role — Charlie Burrows, the "house keeper" in the TV comedy series "The Upper Hand " (1990-1996). He is also known as a television reporter on the BBC's South Today programme, reporting on local events in the south of England. He was also a key character in ITV's ill-fated soap "Night and Day", who had an affair with the underage main character Jane Harper before her disappearance.McGann was born in
Liverpool , to ametallurgist father and a teacher mother, Claire McGann. [http://www.filmreference.com/film/37/Paul-McGann.html] His three younger brothers — Paul, Stephen, Mark — are also actors. Together with Stephen and Mark, he starred in "Tom, Dick and Harry", a play by Ray andMichael Cooney at theDuke of York's Theatre , in 1995.Joe starred as Nathan Detroit (alongside Clare Sweeney who played Miss Adelaide) in the UK tour of Guys and Dolls from September 2006 to February 2007.
He recently participated on
16 December 2007 playing one of the three Magi in BBC Three's "Nativity"; a live performance of the Bible story of Jesus's birth, set in modern day Liverpool. His main solo song was "Lady Madonna ", singing to the newly-born Jesus who is lying in a shopping trolley in a pub garage. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/nativity/index.shtml]Currently appearing on tour with "
Fiddler on the Roof " playing the paterfamilias, Tevye.References
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