Jordan Metcalfe

Jordan Metcalfe (born 24 May 1986) is an English actor best known for his role as Adil the Genie in the children's comedy Genie in the House, screened in the UK and the Netherlands on Nickelodeon, in Germany on Nick Germany, in France on Canal J and Spain on Antena 3 (.NEOX). He finished recording a second series of Genie in the House in September 2007, for broadcast from November 2008.

Jordan Metcalfe
Born (1986-05-24) 24 May 1986
Kingston-upon-Hull, East Yorkshire, England
OccupationActor
Years active2002-Present

Metcalfe has appeared as Jake in The Queen's Nose in 2003. He has played the roles of Chris Travis in Heartbeat, Andy Murphy in Casualty, and Kieran Tyler in Tea with Betty, an Afternoon Play in 2006. He also played the voice of 'Mould' in Fungus the Bogeyman (2004), the character 'Chip' in My Parents Are Aliens in 2006, Young Garstin in These Foolish Things (2006), a telephone receptionist in The Last Detective (2005), Lightfoot in the documentary The Iceman Murder (2005), John Chappel Jr. in the drama-documentary The Last Flight To Kuwait, Byron in Ultimate Force, Wayne in Jacqueline Wilson's Girls In Love and Brian in Misfits. 2019 saw Metcalfe join the cast of Father Brown on BBC1 afternoons.

Other notable appearances include Timon in Maddigan's Quest and Oliver in Neil Bartlett's acclaimed production of Oliver Twist at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in 2004. He has also worked in theatre playing the roles of the Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist, Nibs in Peter Pan, Jack in The Dreaming, and Young Katurian in The Pillowman.

Metcalfe lives in Highbury, London.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2005 These Foolish Things Garstin at 14
2009 Hearts & Minds Customer
2014 Pride Charlie
2017 Play the Game Billy Short
2018 Fractured Freyr

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2003 The Queen's Nose Jake Main role
2004 Fungus the Bogeyman Mould (voice) TV series
2005 The Iceman Murder Lightfoot TV film
2005 Girls in Love Wayne Episode: "True Romance"
2005 The Last Detective Telephone Receptionist Episode: "Towpaths of Glory"
2005 Casualty Andy Murphey Episode: "Naming Names"
2006 The Afternoon Play Kieran Tyler Episode: "Tea with Betty"
2006 Maddigan's Quest Timon Main role
2006 Ultimate Force Byron Episode: "Violent Solutions"
2006 My Parents Are Aliens Chip Episode: "Abandon Chip"
2006 Heartbeat Chris Travis Episode: "Memoirs of a Fighting Man"
2006–2010 Genie in the House Adil Lead role
2009 Casualty Huck Episode: "Who Do You Think You Are?"
2010 Doctors Super-San Episode: "Domo Arigato, Super San"
2010 Misfits Brian Episode: "2.6"
2014 Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This Les Dennis TV film
2018 Wars Jake Titan TV series
2019 Father Brown Jamie Cheeseman Episode: "The Passing Bell"

Theatre
Title Role Notes
Oliver! The Artful Dodger New Theatre, Hull
Peter Pan Nibs Royal Festival Hall
The Dreaming Jack Royal Opera House
Oliver Twist Oliver Lyric Hammersmith
The Pillowman Young Katurian National Theatre

in 2014 Metcalfe toured in the production The Hypochondriac alongside Sir Tony Robinson and Imogen Stubbs [1]

gollark: <@356209633313947648> Make sure to update the BIOS.
gollark: No.
gollark: The main danger with that in the UK is that you might blow the fuse on one of the outlets.
gollark: I could probably bodge together a simple P2Pish chat application without much trouble, but it wouldn't be very secure.
gollark: What would be cool is Discord but federated and partly end to end encrypted.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2014-10-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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