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Bryan Dick (born 1978 in Denton Holme, Carlisle, England) is an English actor, who has starred in multiple motion pictures, television series, and stage productions in both the United Kingdom and United States.
There’s no history of performing in the Dick family but Bryan always yearned for the spotlight’s heat, describing himself, with a laugh, as the black sheep.
He says acting is the only thing he’s any good at but until his teens he was desperate to be a dancer. After attending Robert Ferguson Primary School and spending a year at Trinity, Bryan’s ambitions took him to Elmhurst Ballet School in Surrey. Inspired by the legendary Fred Astaire, his original intention, he explains, was to be a dancer, and he studied classical dance at the famous Elmhirst School, “I said I wanted to tap dance but I eventually went to ballet school – and very quickly fell out of love with it”
After studying at Cumbria Institute of the Arts, he trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), although he had already worked professionally as a child actor. His first major role was in the ITV miniseries The Life and Times of Henry Pratt in 1992. Other series included Earthfasts in 1994 alongside Paul Nicholls.
He came home and studied performing arts at Carlisle College of Art, now part of the University of Cumbria, for three years. Then there was a gap year, not to travel the world but to raise the money to attend drama school. After working as a barman at the Front Page club in Carlisle Bryan finally made it to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he spent another three years; much of it living on Cup-a-Soups and Pot Noodles.
Since LAMDA, he has worked chiefly in television. He started off with a number of small and guest roles, including the younger version of Phil Davis's character, Archie, in the TV series based on the novel White Teeth. His profile was raised by a starring role in the series, Blackpool, in 2004, playing sidekick to David Tennant's police detective. The following year, he was one of the leads in the acclaimed and gritty Simon Curtis series, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, based on the novel by Patrick Hamilton, in which he played the idealistic Bob who falls in love with a prostitute.
He has also had several high-profile roles on the big screen, including the role of Joseph Nagle, carpenter's mate, opposite Russell Crowe, in Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and the werewolf, Rafe, in Katja von Garnier's film Blood and Chocolate (2007). Other films include Brothers of the Head (2005) and Colour Me Kubrick (2006).
On stage, he has appeared in Plasticine and Sliding With Suzanne at the Royal Court, in Edward Bond's Lear at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield and School Play at the Soho Theatre. In 2006, he appeared in two plays at the National Theatre in London, as Andrea Sarti in Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo and as Dapper in The Alchemist. In 2007, he played the lead role of Mozart in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, again at the Crucible Theatre, with Gerard Murphy as Salieri.
He was previously in a relationship with actress Loo Brealey, who is best known for playing Roxy Bird in Casualty.
Speaks with a "southern drawl" due to his 12 years in London, but admits, "when I’ve been drinking my Carlisle accent comes out more." |
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