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Owen Brenman is an English
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 actor best known for his role as Nick Swainey in the multi-award-winning BBC sitcom One Foot In The Grave
One Foot in the Grave

One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television situation comedy series written by David Renwick. The show ran for six series, with several specials over a ten year period, from 1990 to 2000....
, which ran for ten years (1990-2000) and was written by David Renwick
David Renwick

David Peter Renwick is an Englan television writer, best known for creation of the situation comedy One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek....
. He currently plays Dr. Heston Carter in the BBC drama series Doctors

Brenman also played Lloyd Drewitt in two series of David Renwick's BBC dramedy Love Soup
Love Soup

Love Soup is a United Kingdom television comedy-drama, produced by the BBC and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005. It stars Tamsin Greig as Alice Chenery and Michael Landes as Gil Raymond ....
 (2005/8). He also starred in People Like Us
People Like Us

People Like Us is a British comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton , and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer....
, three series of the children's television series Woof!
Woof!

Woof! is a CiTV television series produced by Central Independent Television about the adventures of a boy who shapeshifting. It was based on the book by Allan Ahlberg....
, and three series of Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Alexei Sayle's Stuff

Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.It stars stand-up comedian Alexei Sayle, with a recurring cast including Angus Deayton, Mark Williams , Arabella Weir, Tony Millan, Jan Ravens, Owen Brenman, Harriet Thorpe, and Felicity Montagu....
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Owen Brenman is an English
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 actor best known for his role as Nick Swainey in the multi-award-winning BBC sitcom One Foot In The Grave
One Foot in the Grave

One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television situation comedy series written by David Renwick. The show ran for six series, with several specials over a ten year period, from 1990 to 2000....
, which ran for ten years (1990-2000) and was written by David Renwick
David Renwick

David Peter Renwick is an Englan television writer, best known for creation of the situation comedy One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek....
. He currently plays Dr. Heston Carter in the BBC drama series Doctors

Brenman also played Lloyd Drewitt in two series of David Renwick's BBC dramedy Love Soup
Love Soup

Love Soup is a United Kingdom television comedy-drama, produced by the BBC and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005. It stars Tamsin Greig as Alice Chenery and Michael Landes as Gil Raymond ....
 (2005/8). He also starred in People Like Us
People Like Us

People Like Us is a British comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton , and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer....
, three series of the children's television series Woof!
Woof!

Woof! is a CiTV television series produced by Central Independent Television about the adventures of a boy who shapeshifting. It was based on the book by Allan Ahlberg....
, and three series of Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Alexei Sayle's Stuff

Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.It stars stand-up comedian Alexei Sayle, with a recurring cast including Angus Deayton, Mark Williams , Arabella Weir, Tony Millan, Jan Ravens, Owen Brenman, Harriet Thorpe, and Felicity Montagu....
. He played Mark Thatcher
Mark Thatcher

The Honourable Sir Mark Thatcher, 2nd Baronet is the only son of Denis Thatcher and The Rt Hon. The Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and twin brother of Carol Thatcher....
 opposite John Wells
John Wells (satirist)

John Wells was an England actor, writer and satire, educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. The son of a clergyman, he was born in Ashford, Kent and died in Sussex....
 and Angela Thorne
Angela Thorne

Angela Thorne is an English people actor who is best known for her roles in To the Manor Born and Anyone for Denis?....
 in the political sitcom Dunrulin'. He also played the milkman in kids tv series Bernards Watch in the 90's.

On the London stage Brenman played Theo in the 2006 European premiere of Steve Martin
Steve Martin

Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an Emmy Award-winning United States actor, comedian, writer, playwright, Film producer, musician, and composer....
's The Underpants
The Underpants

The Underpants is the most recent adaptation of the 1910 German farce Die Hose by playwright Carl Sternheim. The adaptation was written by Steve Martin....
 at the Old Red Lion Theatre
Old Red Lion Theatre

The Old Red Lion Theatre is a fringe theatre, situated above a pub at The Angel, Islington, in the London Borough of Islington.It was founded in 1979 as the Old Red Lion Theatre Club....
 - a reworking of Carl Sternheim
Carl Sternheim

Carl Sternheim was a Germany playwright and short story writer. One of the major exponents of German Expressionism, he especially satire the moral sensibilities of the emerging German bourgeoisie during the William II, German Emperor....
's 1911 satirical comedy, Die Hose. Brenman also played Ian in the football comedy An Evening with Gary Lineker
An Evening with Gary Lineker

An Evening with Gary Lineker is a 1992 stage play, later adapted for television, by Arthur Smith and Chris England.The action takes place against the backdrop of the 1990 FIFA World Cup England and Germany football rivalry#1990 World Cup, between England national football team and Germany national football team, which is taking place i...
 at the Duchess Theatre
Duchess Theatre

The Duchess Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster, London, located in Catherine Street, near Aldwych.The theatre opened on 25 November, 1929 and is one of the smallest 'proscenium arched' West End theatres....
, and Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali is a United Kingdom-Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch , and the London Review of Books....
's and Howard Brenton
Howard Brenton

Howard John Brenton is an English playwright. He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on 13 December, 1942, son of Donald Henry Brenton and his wife Rose Lilian ....
's New Labour satire Ugly Rumours (Tricycle Theatre), The Ghost Train (Lyric Hammersmith Theatre), C4 Sitcom Festival (Riverside Theatre) which resulted in the C4 comedy series In Exile and a rarely performed Ionesco play, Journeys Among The Dead (Riverside Theatre).

Outside London Brenman played Felix in Elly Brewer’s and Sandi Toskvig’s Shakespeare deconstruction The Pocket Dream (York Theatre Royal), Brian in Terry Johnson
Terry Johnson (dramatist)

Terry Johnson is a United Kingdom dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. He is a Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre....
's Dead Funny (Nottingham Playhouse), toured with Butterflies Are Free, appeared in The Winslow Boy and The Trial of Lady Chatterley (Nottingham Playhouse) and Richard Hope's brilliant black comedy about serial killers and the press, Good Copy, in which he played a paedophile priest opposite Robert Bathurst
Robert Bathurst

Robert Guy Bathurst is a United Kingdom actor. Bathurst was born in Ghana and raised in Republic of Ireland and England. He took up amateur dramatics while at boarding school and continued acting with the Cambridge Footlights at university, alongside reading for a degree in law....
's prostitute murderer (West Yorkshire Playhouse).

In 2007, Brenman completed a UK tour with Richard Wilson of Steve Thompson's political comedy Whipping It Up and featured in a new series of Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
 for BBC7.

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