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Brennan Brown

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Brennan Brown
Born (1968-11-23) November 23, 1968 (age 55)
EducationYale University (MFA)
OccupationActor
Years active2000–present
Spouse
(m. 1998)
Children1

Brennan Brown (born November 23, 1968) is an American film, television, and stage actor. He currently plays Dr. Samuel Abrams on NBC's Chicago Med. He played Robert Childan on Amazon's Man in the High Castle.

Career

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He received his MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama.[1]

He first came to widespread attention in the UK for playing "Mr. Dresden" the spoof film board executive in Orange UK's long-running series of cinema adverts.[2] Brown's other film and television credits include I Love You Phillip Morris with Jim Carrey;[3] Focus opposite Will Smith and Margot Robbie;[4] State of Play; Turn the River; two seasons playing Edward Biben on Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle;[5] HBO's John Adams playing Robert Treat Paine; and two seasons playing Special Agent Nicholas Donnelly on Person of Interest.

Brown has appeared in numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway stage productions. At the Atlantic Theater he appeared in Harold Pinter's Celebration and Ethan Cohen's Offices. At the National Actor's Theater he appeared in Aeschylus' The Persians and Pirandello's Right You Are (If You Think You Are). He played Snobby Price in The Roundabout Theatre Company's Major Barbara.

Filmography

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Film and Television
Year Film Role Notes
2000-2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Attorney Brendan Walsh
Defense Attorney
"Asunder"
"Paranoia" [uncredited]
2001 Deadline Engineer "Somebody's Fool"
The Education of Max Bickford Ron Zinn "A Very Great Man"
2001–09 Law & Order Forensic Technician
Donald Houseman
Attorney Hoyt
3 episodes
2002 Monday Night Mayhem Bob Goodrich TV movie
2003–09 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Jerry Rivers
Merrill
2 episodes
2006 Kidnapped Paul Levine "Sorry, Wrong Number"
2007 The Girl in the Park Man Fan
Turn the River Randolph
2008 John Adams Robert Treat Paine 2 episodes
Gossip Girl Mr. Smith "Bonfire of the Vanity"
2009 I Love You Phillip Morris Larry Birkheim
Damages Arthur Phillips "I Agree, It Wasn't Funny"
State of Play Andrew Pell
Ugly Betty Miles Foster 2 episodes
2010 Billy Green The LA Executive Unknown episodes
Agatha Christie's Marple Hailey Preston "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"
2011 Detachment Greg Raymond
2012–13 Person of Interest Special Agent Nicholas Donnelly 9 episodes
2013 Gilded Lilys Mr. Lavage TV movie
Breaking Bad US Attorney "Granite State"
2014 The Blacklist Dr. Nikolaus Vogel "Berlin (No. 8)"
Elementary Kevin Elspeth "Enough Nemesis To Go Around"
2014–15 Beauty & the Beast Captain/Chief Ward 8 episodes
Mozart in the Jungle Edward Biben 8 episodes
2015 Focus Horst
2015–2019 The Man in the High Castle[5] Robert Childan series regular (season 2–4), recurring (season 1)
2015–present Chicago Med[6] Dr. Sam Abrams Recurring Role
2018 The Sinner Lionel Jeffries 3 episodes
2019 The Wolf Hour[7] Hans
Midway Commander Joseph Rochefort[8]
Bull Attorney Steve Perry "Labor Days"
2022 Not Okay Harold

Theater

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Video games

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References

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  1. ^ "Graduating actors to perform in 'Richard III'". archives.news.yale.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-04-20. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  2. ^ "Orange cinema ads: Mr Dresden's back again". The Guardian. 2 February 2007. Archived from the original on 7 June 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  3. ^ Holden, Stephen (December 2, 2010). "A Winning Smile Makes the Scamming a Breeze". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 1, 2022. Retrieved March 1, 2022 – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ McCarthy, Todd (February 25, 2015). "'Focus': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on March 1, 2022. Retrieved March 1, 2022.
  5. ^ a b Petski, Denise (August 13, 2015). "Brennan Brown Joins Amazon's 'Man In The High Castle'; Noah Harpster In Untitled Tig Notaro Pilot". Archived from the original on March 1, 2022. Retrieved March 1, 2022.
  6. ^ "Chicago Med season 6, episode 2 photos: Those Things Hidden In Plain Sight". November 17, 2020. Archived from the original on March 1, 2022. Retrieved March 1, 2022.
  7. ^ McNary, Dave (November 29, 2017). "Film News Roundup: Jennifer Ehle, Emory Cohen Join Naomi Watts' Thriller 'Wolf Hour'". Archived from the original on June 7, 2024. Retrieved March 1, 2022.
  8. ^ Ellwood-Hughes, Pip (2 March 2020). "Midway: watch a clip from Joe Rochefort: Breaking the Japanese Code featurette". Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
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