Daniel Brocklebank (born 21 December 1979) is a British actor, best known for portraying the roles of Ivan Jones in the ITV

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'' (2005–2006), and Billy Mayhew in ITV's other long-running soap ''

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'' (2014–present). He is also known for his performance in the films '' Shakespeare in Love'' (1998), and '' The Hole'' (2001).

Career

From 1994, Brocklebank has starred in various TV programmes such as '' Down to Earth'' (BBC), '' Born and Bred'' (BBC), '' Ed Stone is Dead'' (BBC 3/Channel 4), '' Casualty'' (BBC), ''

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'' (ITV) and played Ivan Jones in ITV's ''

'' between the beginning of 2005 to the end of 2006. Other TV credits include ''The Crazy World of Captain Llama'', ''

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'', '' Doctors'' and '' Waterloo Road''. Brocklebank's other films include: '' The Hole'' starring opposite

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and Thora Birch, '' The Hours'' opposite

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, '' Another Life'' opposite

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and Tom Wilkinson, ''

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'' opposite

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and Helena Bonham Carter, ''

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'' opposite Kirsten Dunst and

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, produced by

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and '' The Criminal'' with

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. Brocklebank has worked with the

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in productions of ''

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'' playing Silvius, Chiron in''

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'', Rowland in ''

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'' and Ralph in ''Lord of the Flies''. His other theatre credits include Martin Von Heilmann in '' The Curse of the Werewolf'' at the Union Theatre in London, John Rutherford in '' Rutherford and Son'' at the Royal Exchange in Manchester and John Honyman in '' Cressida'', directed by

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for the Almeida Theatre in London's West End. Among other projects in 2008, Brocklebank starred in ''One Night In November'', a new play by Alan Pollock directed by Hamish Glenn at the

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, and in ''

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'' at the ''

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'', directed by Selina Cartmell. In 2009, he played Brother Jasper and Kaisa in ''

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'', a co-production between the Birmingham Rep and the

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directed by Rachel Kavanaugh and Sarah Esdaile. In 2009, he completed filming ''

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'', 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 completed '' Age of Heroes'', in which he plays Sergeant Hamilton, a small role, opposite Danny Dyer and

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. In December 2014, he joined the cast of ''

'' as Billy Mayhew, the new

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at Emily Bishop's parish, St. Mary's, and began dating the barman Sean Tully. He appears as Carl Saunders in the second (2014) and third (2015) series of the BBC's '' WPC 56''. Brocklebank has played roles in other films such as ''Admiral'', a movie where he plays opposite

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; ''Soft Lad'', a movie written and directed by Leon Lopez; and ''Native'', playing opposite Rupert Graves and Ellie Kendrick.

Personal life

Brocklebank is gay. In a 2021 interview with ''

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'', Brocklebank shared, “I pretend for a living, I didn’t want to pretend in my private life. When you spend your life on screen, it’s important to hold on to the bits that are real. Who I am in my real life should bear no relevance to what I play on screen ..I remember my management in Los Angeles trying to convince me not to come out because they said it would affect work – and it did ..I stopped being screen-tested for the heterosexual male leads and I was either the gay best friend or the character parts."

Filmography

Theatre

*''

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'' (Ralph) (1995) RSC *''Mensch Mier'' (Ludwig) (1996) Leicester Haymarket *''

'' (Rowland) (2003–2004) RSC *''

'' (Chiron) (2003) RSC *''

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'' (Silvius) (2003) RSC *'' Cressida'' (John Honyman) (2000) Almeida in the West End *''

'' (Brother Jasper) (2009) Birmingham Rep

References

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