Gavin brocker biography

Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Learn more about contributing. Edit page. More from this person. That's one of my favourite things about being an actor, you get to do that stuff and that was what was great playing George in that script. I got to fight, got to dance, got to flirt, got to kind of be a little bit drunk and wear a great costume and that was all in that one episode, so the dancing was great fun.

Did you have much of a background story about George? Gavin: I, as an actor I like to create a backstory. Your biggest part though is to start with the script. It's easy to make up all these things that can sometimes lead you down a different track and you end up performing a different character that is way out there. So starting with the script is the key point and I was very, very lucky to work with a great group, you know there was four of us, and Matt who played the real Captain Jack, we all stayed in the same hotel with each other and we all got on so well the four of us, so me and Matt after work we met up for the read through which was a day before we started filming and we would have a chat and we would talk about our character's previous relationships, and what they would be like and what they would do and the respect they would have for each other.

So for example, in the scene where all of a sudden I punch John Barrowman, there's a kerfuffle and eventually going to be a fight, and Matt's character, the real Captain Jack, says something like 'That's enough, kiddo. That was really helpful. We talked a little about Matt Rippy, the actor who played the real Captain Jack, about the character he played, the interview we had and how much Gavin enjoyed working with him.

Gavin: He was great, man, he was so great to work with and a real lovely generous actor that was really happy to speak. It was really important I think for the four of us just to speak and bond off screen, so it could come across on screen when you're playing this character. So that's where that becomes really useful when you talk about back story and relationships.

Who were your acting influences growing up? Gavin: It started as Robert De Niro. Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando. I grew up in a very working-class family background so most days it was watching soap and that's what I thought was acting. It is a part of acting but the films that I'd go and see were as a kid, were Ghostbusters and great, great real films that I love but never really watch it for the acting, I'd watch it for the entertainment value of it, which again is nothing wrong with it, because I loved film and I loved TV but I didn't look at it from a point of, 'oh that person inspires me or influences me'.

When I went to the Miskin and my friends now, an actor called Neil Maskell, he introduced me to a load of De Niro films and Scorsese films, Brando and Gary Oldman and suddenly, watching these performances where it kind of really excited me and wowed me and I thought gasps 'Oh WOW, who are these writers, who are these filmmakers? How are they creating that?

I started to watch TV and watch films as an actor - I don't mean that to sound pretentious in any way, it just got my juices flowing, just excited me. I wanted to watch more. Do you come from an acting family? Gavin: No, I don't.

Gavin brocker biography

I am the only actor in my family. There are characters in my family laughs. I think there's one in every family isn't there? Both laugh. Gavin: There's a few in mine but my Nan was a real massive support for me. She always called me her little actor when I was a child. If we would go on holiday and there was someone who had to go up on stage and dress up I would go and do that.

So my Nan was always really supportive and always said 'You'll be an actor one day, you'll be an actor' and bless her, she was right. I come from a really supportive family and again I'm very fortunate. Are you naturally a private person? Gavin: Yeah. The reason why I enjoy acting is because I get to play loads of different people and different characters.

Social media for example, I'm not one that gets into or particularly understands social media. I do it because now it certainly, in , it's a part of my job so - the sort of things like Instagram, I'm involved in it but do it from a point of - this is what I'm up to, in terms of work and work environment. But personal stuff and private, I value that because that's my life and the people that know me personally.

I'd say that I'm fairly private, yes. I explained a little about the reason for the privacy question - it had come from an IMDB posting that only listed his year of birth rather than the full date, so now having talked a little more, I can post that Gavin celebrates his birthday with Paul Rudd, Asa Butterfield and Pharell Williams. Have you guessed it yet?

You also played a character in The Sarah Jane Adventures. Gavin: Do you know why I was so excited about being cast in Torchwood? One of my brothers, Nick, my closest brother is twelve years older than me and I was born in so a lot of my childhood and my brother Nick is probably, well one of the biggest Doctor Who fans. So flash forward and obviously taken off the TV and my brother was gutted and lo and behold and flash forward I don't know how many years it was for Doctor Who to air back on TV he was super excited as was I.

When they were doing the spin off of Torchwood and then I got the phone call 'would I like to go in to audition for it' I was super wowed by it. And of course, really excited and it was a no brainer that I loved the script, and of course after that, the same casting directors were casting Sarah Jane and they called me and it was actually the same director, Ashley Way that directed it, and directed Captain Jack Harkness, that was doing this episode of Sarah Jane Adventures so worked with me before.

So, they got me in and said 'do you want to do this part? He was prepared to train for computer work and went to North West Kent College, where, on the strength of his performance record in school plays, it was suggested he considered taking up acting instead. He received in-service training at the Miskin Theatre before going on to the London Arts Educational School, where he won the Laurence Olivier Bursary, and from where he graduated in He has since appeared in all media, from the stage revival of 'Beautiful Thing' to the role of a conniving spiv in 'Foyle's War' and a strong supporting part in the football picture 'Cass'.

He was prepared to train for computer work and went to North West Kent College, where, on the strength of his performance record in school plays, it was suggested he considered taking up acting instead. He received in-service training at the Miskin Theatre before going on to the London Arts Educational School, where he won the Laurence Olivier Bursary, and from where he graduated in He has since appeared in all media, from the stage revival of 'Beautiful Thing' to the role of a conniving spiv in 'Foyle's War' and a strong supporting part in the football picture 'Cass'.

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