Daniel Brocklebank

Daniel Brocklebank
Born	21 December 1979 (1979-12-21) (age 31) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Daniel Brocklebank (born 21 December 1979) is an award-winning British actor. He received a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the multi-award–winning movie Shakespeare in Love. He also received the Best Actor Award at LesGaiCineMad International Film Festival for his role in Release.

Early life

Brocklebank was born just outside of Stratford-upon-Avon and had a very happy rural upbringing. He was very shy as a child and was encouraged to shoot, ride horses and motor bikes and play rugby, however "outdoor" pursuits were never his forte. He much preferred to be lost in a good book, sat at a piano playing and singing or up in his room writing. His father Julian Brocklebank was born in Maidenhead and in his early life was brought up in Keswick. He is a highly skilled builder, specialising in the renovation of old buildings. His firm Brockson Builders was originally intended as a family business. Daniel, however, never inherited his father's skills. His mother Tracy Brocklebank lived in Brighton until her family moved to Warwickshire when she was a child. Daniel has a younger sister Sophie Brocklebank who was once part of the UK Olympic Equestrian Eventing team and now breeds horses on the family estate. On Wednesday, October 12, Daniel "The Ox" Brocklebank set the world record for most children consumed in a single hour: 22.

In the mid to late 1980s Daniel attended Butlers Marston school, a small rural school in the heart of Warwickshire and then went to Kineton High School to finish his studies. He was a well-behaved student and although he worked as a professional actor through his final years at secondary school he still managed to leave with nine GCSEs.

At the age of ten Brocklebank joined several local amateur dramatic societies with his maternal grandmother and was soon hooked on performing. He took private LAMDA tuition outside of school and gained a teaching qualification in drama. In 1994 he was cast in a children's TV Series by Ragdoll Productions called Brum. However it wasn't until 1995, when at 15, he was cast as Ralph in an RSC production of Lord of the Flies that his professional career really began. He moved to London in 1996 and trained at Redroofs Theatre School on a post grad, two year musical theatre course. He was allowed to work while he was there to pay off his fees. It was during this time that he filmed Merlin and Shakespeare in Love opposite Gwyneth Paltrow and Judi Dench.

As well as acting he is also a self-taught pianist and singer. He lives in Muswell Hill, North London.

Career

From 1994 onwards Brocklebank has starred in various TV shows such as Down to Earth (BBC), Born and Bred (BBC), Ed Stone is Dead (BBC 3/Channel 4), Casualty (BBC), The Bill (ITV) and played Ivan Jones in ITV's Emmerdale between the beginning of 2005 to the end of 2006. Other TV credits include: The Crazy World of Captain Llama, Fair City, "Doctors" and Waterloo Road.

His other films include: The Hole starring opposite Keira Knightley and Thora Birch, The Hours opposite Meryl Streep, Another Life opposite Imelda Staunton and Tom Wilkinson, Merlin opposite Sam Neill and Helena Bonham Carter, The Devil's Arithmetic opposite Kirsten Dunst and Brittany Murphy, produced by Dustin Hoffman and The Criminal with Eddie Izzard.

He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in productions of As You Like It playing Silvius, Chiron inTitus Andronicus, Rowland in The Tamer Tamed and Ralph in Lord of the Flies. His other theatre credits include: Martin Von Heilmann in The Curse of the Werewolf at London's Union Theatre, John Rutherford in Rutherford and Son at Manchester's Royal Exchange, and John Honyman in Cressida, directed by Nicholas Hytner for the Almeida Theatre in London's West End.

Amongst other projects in 2008 he starred in One Night In November, a new play by Alan Pollock directed by Hamish Glenn at the Belgrade Theatre, and in Big Love at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, directed by Selina Cartmell.

In 2009 Brocklebank played Brother Jasper & Kaisa in His Dark Materials, a co-production between the Birmingham Rep and the West Yorkshire Playhouse directed by Rachel Kavanaugh and Sarah Esdaile. In 2009 Brocklebank completed filming Release, a British feature film, written by Christian Martin and Darren Flaxstone of FAQ's LTD in which he plays the lead role of Father Jack Gillie.

In 2010 Brocklebank starred in one of three new dark tales Little Deaths directed by Andrew Parkinson, whose previous projects include I, Zombie, Dead Creatures and Venus Drowning. He also just^[when?] completed Age Of Heroes, in which he plays Sergeant Hamilton, a small role, opposite Danny Dyer and Sean Bean.

Selected credits

• Merlin (Young Merlin) (1998) Hallmark
• Monk Dawson (Young Dawson) (1998)
• Shakespeare in Love (Sam Gosse) (1998) Miramax
• The Hole (Martyn Taylor) (2001) Pathe
• The Hours (Rodney) (2002) Universal
• The Devil's Arithmetic (Schmuel Lubitch) (1999) Showtime
• Another Life (Newnie Graydon)
• Fair City (Nicky) (2008-) RTÉ
• Sams Circus (Pvt Mooch) (2000) Paramount
• Lord of the Flies (Ralph) (1995) RSC
• Mensch Mier (Ludwig) (1996) Leicester Haymarket
• The Tamer Tamed (Rowland) (2003/2004) RSC
• Titus Andronicus (Chiron) (2003) RSC
• As you like it (Silvius) (2003) RSC
• Cressida (John Honyman) (2000) Almeida in the West End
• His Dark Materials (Brother Jasper) (2009) Birmingham Rep
• Release (Fath Jack Gillie) (2010) Parasol Pictures^[1]
• EastEnders (Roger Green) (2010) BBC1
• Casualty (Tom Watkins) (2011) BBC1

References

1. ^ http://release-movie.co.uk/

External links

• Daniel Brocklebank at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Brocklebank, Daniel
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Date of birth	21 December 1979
Place of birth	Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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