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Born in
WythenshaweWythenshawe is a district in the south of the city of Manchester in North West England.Until 1931 the district formed a part of the administrative county of Cheshire....
,
ManchesterManchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. In 2007, the population of the city was estimated to be 458,100...
, Bisson first appeared on television as J.J. in
Children's WardChildren's Ward was a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children's ITV strand on weekday afternoons. The programme was set, as the title suggests, in the children's ward of a hospital, and told the stories of...
in 1990. He went on to appear in
Prime SuspectPrime Suspect is a British police procedural television drama series made by Granada Television for the ITV network in the 1990s and 2000s. The screenplays for the first and third serials were written by Lynda La Plante, and in 1993 she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America...
and
Holby CityHolby City, styled as HOLBY CI+Y, is a BAFTA award winning medical drama television serial transmitted by BBC One in the United Kingdom. It is a spin-off from Casualty, and is set in the same hospital, with occasional crossovers of characters and plots...
, but he is most recognized for his roles as Saleem Khan in
East is EastEast Is East is a BAFTA award-winning British comedy-drama film released in 1999.It is set in a British household of mixed-ethnicity, with a Pakistani father and a English mother in Salford, Manchester, in 1971...
, Vikram Desai in
Coronation StreetCoronation Street is an award-winning prime time soap opera set and produced in Manchester created by Tony Warren...
and Kash Karib in
ShamelessShameless is a BAFTA award-winning British comedy drama television series set in the fictional Chatsworth council Estate, Manchester, England. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004...
. He also appeared in the second series of
I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here! is a reality television show produced by ITV Studios for the ITV network in Britain. In it, celebrities live in jungle conditions with few comforts and have to earn human essentials. ABC aired one season of an American version in February and March 2003...
. Bisson most recently appeared in the
Perfect Day: The Wedding in 2005,
Perfect Day: The Funeral in 2006 on Five and the feature film
Stepdad which was filmed in February 2007 and is currently in post production. He participated in the Channel 4 Documentary
Empire's Children (2007) tracing his paternal heritage to
TrinidadTrinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the country of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just 11 km off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of 4,768 km² it is also the fifth...
in the West Indies.
His most recent television appearances have been on the Valentine's Day 2009 episode of
CasualtyCasualty, styled as CASUAL
+Y, is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world, and the second-longest-running medical drama in the world behind America's General Hospital. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted in the UK...
, and on the latest series of
Hotel BabylonHotel Babylon is a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, first shown in January 2006. Produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One, the show follows the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.-Ratings:The show...
.
He returned to
Shameless in April 2009 for only one episode. In September 2009, Bisson joined the cast of
EmmerdaleEmmerdale, known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989, is a popular and critically acclaimed British soap opera that has aired on ITV since 1972...
as part of the newly cast Sharma family.