Daniel Brocklebank

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Daniel Brocklebank is an award-winning actor best known for his portrayal of Billy Mayhew in Coronation Street.

Daniel started acting professionally at the age of 14 on stage and screen. In 1999 Daniel won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the multi award-winning Shakespeare In Love (Miramax) and in 2010 he won a Best Actor Award at LesGaiCineMad International Film Festival for his role in British indie film Release (FAQs Ltd). As well as his classical tuition at LAMDA Daniel also trained in musical theatre and is a strong singer and pianist. He was crowned winner of ITV’s All Star Musicals in 2019.

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Daniel Brocklebank is an award-winning actor best known for his portrayal of Billy Mayhew in Coronation Street.

Daniel started acting professionally at the age of 14 on stage and screen. In 1999 Daniel won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance in the multi award-winning Shakespeare In Love (Miramax) and in 2010 he won a Best Actor Award at LesGaiCineMad International Film Festival for his role in British indie film Release (FAQs Ltd). As well as his classical tuition at LAMDA Daniel also trained in musical theatre and is a strong singer and pianist. He was crowned winner of ITV’s All Star Musicals in 2019.

On screen, Daniel has played much loved character Billy Mayhew in Coronation Street since 2014. He played Ivan Jones in ITV’s Emmerdale between 2005 – 2006, and Carl Saunders in seasons 2-3 of BBC’s WPC 56. Other credits include Finding Joy (Acorn TV); Midsomer Murders, Chasing Shadows, The Bill, Emmerdale, Oliver Twist (ITV); Born And Bred, Down To Earth, Doctors, Ed Stone Is Dead, Captain Lamar and Casualty (BBC); Fair City (RTE).

On film, Daniel’s work includes The Hole starring opposite Keira Knightley and Thora Birch; The Hours opposite Meryl Streep; Another LifeMerlinThe Devil’s Arithmetic and The Criminal with Eddie Izzard. Further credits include AdmiralSoft Lad; Native; The Vintage; Cal; Age Of Heroes, and Little Deaths/Mutant Tool.

Theatre credits include numerous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company including Silvius in As You Like It; Chiron in Titus Andronicus; Rowland in The Tamer Tamed, and Ralph in Lord of the Flies. Further theatre includes The Hallowe’en Sessions (Leicester Square Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Rose Theatre Kingston); A Dolls House (The Lowry); His Dark Materials (Birmingham Rep / West Yorkshire Playhouse); One Night In November (Belgrade Theatre); Big Love (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Martin Von Heilmann in The Curse of the Werewolf (Union Theatre); John Rutherford in Rutherford and Son (Manchester Royal Exchange); John Honyman in Cressida (Almeida Theatre).

 

 

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