Nicholas Brown (actor)

Nicholas Brown is an Australian actor, singer, songwriter, and screenwriter.

Nicholas Brown
Born
Sydney, Australia
Other namesNick Brown
OccupationActor, singer,songwriter, radio presenter and screenwriter.
Years activeSince 1994
Websitenicholasbrowntown.com

Personal life

Brown grew up in the Western Sydney suburb of Greystanes with parents Roy and Patricia Brown and older sister Tracey. He attended Newtown High School of the Performing Arts in years 11 and 12 as an auditioned drama student. Whilst at NHSPA he represented the school in various drama and music festivals including OnStage and School Spectacular and was elected School Captain in 1997.[1]

In 1998 Brown was accepted into the prestigious Australian drama school the National Institute of Dramatic Art and was said to be both one of the youngest students and the first student to be accepted directly from high school.[2]

In 2010 Brown was a Cleo Bachelor of the Year[3] nominee.

Acting career

Brown recently returned to Australia from Mumbai to appear in Mr and Mrs Murder, Packed to the Rafters and played the real life heroine drug smuggler Supahaus in the leading Australian television show Underbelly: The Man Who Got Away. Brown has also appeared in the short film 'Bani Ibrahim' and Channel 7 comedy pilot 'Lucky Dragon'[4] and Australian feature films ‘The Characters’, 'Temptation' and 'A Man's Gotta Do'. His television credits include 'Home and Away',[5] 'White Collar Blue', 'Heartbreak High', 'Drama School' and 'The Cooks'.[6]

Acting in many international theatre festivals, in 2010 Brown performed in three new plays at the Australian National Play Festival in Brisbane, in Rehaan Engineer's ‘Seven Jewish Children’ by Caryl Churchill, Project 88 Art Gallery in Mumbai and 'Doctrine: How To Survive Under Siege' in Brussels, Belgium for the Kunsten Festival Des Arts.[7] Brown also represented the NIDA company at the UNESCO 2007 drama schools festival in Transylvania Romania, playing Orestes in Aeschylus's Ancient Greek tragedy 'The Oresteian Trilogy.'[8]

Brown also played the villain Nikhil Madhvani opposite Shilpa Shetty in 'Miss Bollywood' which toured Germany and the UK including London's West End.[9] Other theatre credits include ‘There Is No Need To Wake Up’ at the Sydney Opera House directed by Barrie Kosky; Kurt Weill's 'Berlin to Broadway' directed by Jim Sharman; 'Spunks' at the Stables Theatre; 'Frozen' for Company B Belvoir St Theatre directed by Kate Gaul; Toad in the Australian Shakespeare Company's productions of 'Wind in the Willows' and Martin Crimp's 'Fewer Emergencies' at The Old Fitzroy Theatre[10] and 2005 Hi-5 Space Magic – World Tour.[11]

Writer

Brown's screenwriting credits include The Aussie Bollywood film 'Lighten Up'[12] with Olivia Newton-John[13]

Music

Brown was the lead singer of the LA based funk band Knuckle Funk in 2011–2012. As singer/songwriter, Brown also recorded the album 'Big Score' in 2005 with his Australian disco funk band The Modernists[14] in 2004 and performed at Australian venues such as The Basement and The Metro.

In 2005 he was the male understudy for the children's internationally recognised pop group Hi-5[15] on their world tour.

Brown was also invited to sing at ‘Raise the Roof’ at Sydney’s State Theatre in a special concert to raise funds for the Tsunami Appeal in 2006.[16] Nick wrote and recorded an album with the electro rock outfit ‘Listen Like Thieves’ and is planning a solo release in 2010.

Radio presenter

Brown is currently hosting SBS Radio's PopDesi – the biggest Bollywood, Bhangra and Desi pop playing on Australian digital radio, online and mobile[17]

Awards

In 2004 Brown was a recipient of The Mike Walsh Fellowship.[18]

Community work

His charity work includes:

  • 2012 – Supporting the work of the National Youth Theatre Company Foundation[19] as an ambassador and through facilitating youth welfare programs.
  • 2010 – The official male Ambassador for Ovarian Cancer Australia's 2010 Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month campaign [20]
  • 2006 – Raise The Roof – Tsunami Appeal special appearance for the Red Cross
  • 2005 – Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Foundation – official MC and voice of the RPA Foundation Research Prize
  • 2004 – Royal Prince Alfred Hospital – RPA Health Festival volunteer and special guest
  • 2003 – Music For Timor – Master of Ceremonies and performer at Music benefit concert to support the work of the Bairo Pite Clinic[21]

Credits

Screen
Year Genre Title Role Credits Notes
2013 TV The Elegant Gentlemen's Guide to Knife Fighting Xavier Jungleboys, Scott Pickett
2012 TV Mr & Mrs Murder Dt Mukajee Fremantle Media, Scott Pickett
2012 Short Film The 5 Kris Junglee Films and Off-Chance Productions, Ravi Kapoor (Dir.) Official Selection and LA Premiere Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles[22][23]
2012 TV Home and Away Dr Padley Seven Network, Various
2012 TV Packed to the Rafters Yuppie SNO, Kevin Carlin
2011 Feature Film Love You To Death John (Lead) Fat Mama Films, Rafeeq Ellias Official Selection Mumbai Film Festival, the Indian Film Festival in Tampa Bay Florida, the Anchorage Film Festival in Alaska (where it won an award) and the New York Indian Film Festival[24]
2011 Short Film The Shadower in 3D Dani Wicked Little Dragon Films, Jenny Januszewski Official Selection LA 3D Festival and WINNER Best Experimental Film[25]
2010 Telemovie Underbelly: Files The Man Who Got Away Chowdury UBTM Pty Ltd, Cherie Nowlan
2010 TV Lucky Dragon Ranjit SNO, Kevin Carlin Pilot
2010 Feature Film Random 8 Michael Henderson (Lead) Random 8 Films, Kathryn Millard
2010 Feature Film Kites: The Remix Tony (Lead) Brett Ratner Official English-language version Kites, reedited
2010 Feature Film Kites Tony – Lead Reliance/Big Pictures/Filmkraft, Brett Ratner/Anurag Basu Bollywood Film
2009 TV City Homicide Sanjay Roshan SNO, Richard Jasek
2008 Short Film Ghazali Bani Ibrahim VCA, Raihan Harun
2007 TV Home and Away Mark Davidson SNO, Scott Hartford-Davis
2007 Short Film Don't Panic Abe Temple Films. Luci Temple
2004 TV The Cooks Sachin Chapman Pictures, Tony Tilse, Brendan Maher, Ian Watson, Ian Gilmour Main Character, Eps 1–13
2003 Feature FIlm A Man's Gotta Do Dr Grace Oilrag Productions, Chris Kennedy
2003 TV White Collar Blue Damien Lewis Knapman Wyld, Network 10, Ken Cameron
2002 Feature Film Temptation Sachin Chapman Pictures, Tony Tilse Film was adapted into Channel 10 TV Series The Cooks
2002 Short Film Bait Fisherman BB Films, Boyd Britton
2002 Short Film The Man on the Boay Taxi Driver Boyd Britton Films, Boyd Britton Tropfest Best of the Rest 2003
2001 Feature Film The Characters El Muncho MR Films, Ryan Kwanten
2001 Short Film All Tomorrow's Parties Patty 8 Player Film, Melanie Hogan
2001 TV Life Support Guest SBS

Stage
Year Genre Title Role Company & Director Notes
2014-15 Musical Theatre Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus Raell Padamsee’s Ace Productions, Alyque Padamsee
2013 Stage The Wind in the Willows Mr Toad Australian Shakespeare Company, Marian Bragge
2012 Theatre The Wind in the Willows Badger Australian Shakespeare Company, Marian Bragge
2010 Theatre The New Black, Tilt, Student Body Various 2010 National Playwrights Festival, Chris Mead
2009 Theatre Seven Jewish Children 1 Industrial Theatre Company, Rehaan Engineer
2008 Theatre How To Survive Under Siege Xerxes Kunsten Festival Des Arts (Brussels), Rehaan Engineer
2007 Musical Theatre Miss Bollywood – The Shilpa Shetty Musical Nick Cineyug European, UK and Royal Albert Hall Tour.
2007 Theatre The Oresteia Orestes NIDA Company, Mark Gaal Australian representative company at the UNESCO Festival Transylvania
2006 Theatre Fewer Emergencies by Martin Crimp Various Old Fitzroy Theatre/Tamarama Rock Surfers. Anyroad.
2005 Musical Theatre Hi-5 Space Magic – World Tour Understudy / Swing Kids Like Us, Lisa Freshwater
2003 Musical Theatre Burning Bridges – A Musical Odyssey Various Opera X, Andrew Davidson
2003 Theatre The Wind in the Willows Mr Toad Australian Shakespeare Company, Marian Bragge
2003 Theatre Frozen Patrick Belvoir (theatre company) B Sharp, Siren Theatre Company, Kate Gaul
2002 Theatre Spunks Chad Push Up Theatre at The Stables Theatre, Melita Rowston
2002 Theatre Sticks and Stones Joe Brainstorm Productions, Jenny Johnson
2002 Theatre Pokie Face Luigi Jnr Short and Sweet, Mark Cleary
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gollark: Apparently I've managed to not fail my GCSEs (even English Literature), which is nice. Although they're pretty meaningless this year, as there weren't actual exams and there was a horrible mess with grades.
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References
  1. NHSPA Annual Report. Newtown High School of the Performing Arts. 2008.
  2. "NIDA Calls". Parramatta Advertiser. 12 February 2008.
  3. "Triple Treat". MX Brisbane. 17 February 2010.
  4. "Ben Bangay". Archived from the original on 8 August 2013.
  5. "Home & Away – Youtube". Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  6. "Australian Television: The Cooks". www.australiantelevision.net.
  7. "Kunstenfestivaldesarts".
  8. "2007 Annual Report". National Institute of Dramatic Art. 26 March 2008. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. "Miss Bollywood - Nicholas Brown & Anousha Dandekar". 14 October 2007 – via Flickr.
  10. "Nicholas Brown - actor, singer, songwriter and screenwriter - starring in the International Blockbuster Bollywood film Kites". www.nicholasbrowntown.com.
  11. Litson, Jo (5 May 2010). "Nick Flies High". The Sunday Telegraph.
  12. Ganguly, Prithwish (26 May 2010). "Grammy winner's Indian 'love affair'". DNA India.
  13. Chiu, David. "Olivia Newton-John Could Be Bollywood-Bound". NBC New York.
  14. "Myspace".
  15. "Sunny Shah Events". Archived from the original on 30 June 2013.
  16. "Raising the roof for tsunami victims". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 January 2005.
  17. "SBS Radio". SBS.
  18. "Mike Walsh O.B.E. - Official Website". www.mikewalsh.com.au.
  19. "NYTC Foundation Official Website". Archived from the original on 19 April 2013.
  20. "Ovarian Cancer Australia Media Release" (PDF). Ovarian Cancer Australia.
  21. "Bairo Pite Hospital".
  22. "Indian Film Festival – LA". Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  23. "Durance Magazine: The 5". Archived from the original on 4 July 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  24. "Love You to Death : The Film". www.facebook.com.
  25. "STEREO 3D". vfxstereo3d.blogspot.com.au.
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