Paterson Joseph

Born in London

London

[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...

, Joseph trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a leading British drama school in west London.The institutions that combined to form LAMDA date from 1861 and include the London Academy of Music founded by Henry Wylde in 1867...

 (LAMDA). In recent years he has had a high number of roles in continuing British television programmes, both drama and comedy. These include Reuben in William and Mary alongside Martin Clunes

Martin Clunes

Alexander Martin Clunes is a BAFTA and SAG award-winning British actor and comedian.-Early life:Clunes is the son and second child of the classical actor Alec Clunes who died of lung cancer when Martin was eight; he has an older sister, Amanda. His mother Daphne, later a board member of the London...

; Mark Grace in Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, 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...

; the Marquis de Carabas in Neverwhere

Neverwhere

Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two. The series is set in "London Below", a magical realm coexisting with the more familiar London, referred to as "London Above". It was devised by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry, and directed by Dewi...

; Alan Johnson in Peep Show

Peep Show (TV series)

Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb themselves, amongst others. It has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 2003, with the first episode of Series 6 aired on 18...

; Lyndon Jones in Green Wing

Green Wing

Green Wing is an award-winning British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital Trust. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt....

and Shorty in the first episode of Jericho.

He also appeared in the acclaimed drama Sex Traffic

Sex Traffic

Sex Traffic is a British-Canadian television 2-part drama production about the trafficking of women first shown in the UK and Canada in October 2004.It was written by Abi Morgan, directed by David Yates and stars Anamaria Marinca and John Simm...

, in the TV version of Kwame Kwei-Armah

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Kwame Kwei-Armah is a British actor, playwright, singer and broadcaster. In 2005 he became the first black Briton to have a play staged in the West End when his award-winning piece Elmina's Kitchen transferred to the Garrick Theatre in 2005....

's acclaimed play Elmina's Kitchen and in the Doctor Who

Doctor Who

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

episodes "Bad Wolf

Bad Wolf

"Bad Wolf" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 11 2005. It is the first of a two-part story...

" and "The Parting of the Ways

The Parting of the Ways

"The Parting of the Ways" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on 18 June 2005. It is the second of a two-part story. The first part, "Bad Wolf", was broadcast on 11 June...

" as Rodrick.

Career

Born in London

London

[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...

, Joseph trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art is a leading British drama school in west London.The institutions that combined to form LAMDA date from 1861 and include the London Academy of Music founded by Henry Wylde in 1867...

 (LAMDA). In recent years he has had a high number of roles in continuing British television programmes, both drama and comedy. These include Reuben in William and Mary alongside Martin Clunes

Martin Clunes

Alexander Martin Clunes is a BAFTA and SAG award-winning British actor and comedian.-Early life:Clunes is the son and second child of the classical actor Alec Clunes who died of lung cancer when Martin was eight; he has an older sister, Amanda. His mother Daphne, later a board member of the London...

; Mark Grace in Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, 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...

; the Marquis de Carabas in Neverwhere

Neverwhere

Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two. The series is set in "London Below", a magical realm coexisting with the more familiar London, referred to as "London Above". It was devised by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry, and directed by Dewi...

; Alan Johnson in Peep Show

Peep Show (TV series)

Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb themselves, amongst others. It has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 2003, with the first episode of Series 6 aired on 18...

; Lyndon Jones in Green Wing

Green Wing

Green Wing is an award-winning British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital Trust. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt....

and Shorty in the first episode of Jericho.

He also appeared in the acclaimed drama Sex Traffic

Sex Traffic

Sex Traffic is a British-Canadian television 2-part drama production about the trafficking of women first shown in the UK and Canada in October 2004.It was written by Abi Morgan, directed by David Yates and stars Anamaria Marinca and John Simm...

, in the TV version of Kwame Kwei-Armah

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Kwame Kwei-Armah is a British actor, playwright, singer and broadcaster. In 2005 he became the first black Briton to have a play staged in the West End when his award-winning piece Elmina's Kitchen transferred to the Garrick Theatre in 2005....

's acclaimed play Elmina's Kitchen and in the Doctor Who

Doctor Who

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

episodes "Bad Wolf

Bad Wolf

"Bad Wolf" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 11 2005. It is the first of a two-part story...

" and "The Parting of the Ways

The Parting of the Ways

"The Parting of the Ways" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on 18 June 2005. It is the second of a two-part story. The first part, "Bad Wolf", was broadcast on 11 June...

" as Rodrick. He has also appeared in various supporting roles in Dead Ringers

Dead Ringers (comedy)

Dead Ringers is a UK radio and television comedy impressions broadcasted on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. It starred Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwell, Kevin Connelly and Mark Perry....

. In 2006 he appeared in the television sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look

That Mitchell and Webb Look

That Mitchell and Webb Look is a BAFTA award winning British television sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, that has currently run for three six-part series. The first episode of the third series aired on June 11 2009. The first episode originally aired 14 September 2006 on BBC...

where he played Simon, a contestant on the game show Numberwang.

He appeared as Keaty in the Hollywood

Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...

 film The Beach

The Beach

The Beach may refer to:*The Beach , a 1996 novel by Alex Garland*The Beach , a 2000 movie based on the aforementioned novel*The Beach a 1995 short film made in New Zealand, directed by Dorthe Scheffmann...

alongside Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer whose career rose with his role in the television sit-com Growing Pains....

 and starred as Giroux alongside Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron is a South African actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She became an American citizen in 2007....

 and Peter Clarke

Peter Clarke

Peter Clarke may refer to:*Peter Clarke , from 2001 to 2007*Peter Clarke , footballer with Huddersfield Town F.C*Peter Clarke , cartoonist for The Guardian...

 in Paramount Pictures Æon Flux

Æon Flux (film)

Æon Flux is a 2005 science fiction film released on December 2, 2005. The film is a loose adaptation of the animated science fiction television series of the same name, which was created by animator Peter Chung and stars Charlize Theron as the title character.-Plot:In a post-apocalyptic future,...

.

Joseph played Space Marshall Clarke in two series of the BBC sci-fi sitcom Hyperdrive

Hyperdrive (TV series)

Hyperdrive is a British television science fiction sitcom series produced by the BBC created under the working title of "Full Power." BBC2 broadcast two seasons in 2006 and 2007, A third season is yet to be commissioned...

, and was Benjamin Maddox in the BBC serial-drama Jekyll. He also provided the voice of K.O. Joe in Chop Socky Chooks

Chop Socky Chooks

Chop Socky Chooks is a British animated television series produced by Aardman Animations and DHX Media that debuted on March 7, 2008. It was created by animator Sergio Delfino, a prominent animator at Aardman. It currently airs only on Teletoon . For now, it airs on Cartoon Network, except in the USA...

.

In 2008 he played Greg Preston in Survivors

Survivors (2008 TV Series)

Survivors is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme is a re-imagining of the BBC television series Survivors created by Terry Nation and depicts the activities of a group of people who survived a virulent strain of mutant or genetically engineered...

, the BBC remake of the 70s science fiction drama of the same name.

Joseph provided the narration for the National Geographic series 'Wild Russia' in 2009.
Joseph's theatre credits include the title role in Othello

Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...

, as well as parts in Henry IV

Henry IV, Part 1

Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV , and Henry V...

, King Lear

King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606, and is considered one of his greatest works. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king...

, and Hamlet

Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then...

for a performance in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...

. In 2004 he undertook a project, filmed for Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK public-service television broadcaster which began working on November 2, 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station owned now and operated by the Channel Four Television...

 in a documentary entitled My Shakespeare, to direct a version of Romeo & Juliet, using 20 young non-actors from the deprived Harlesden

Harlesden

Harlesden is an inner-city town in the London Borough of Brent. Its main focal point is the Jubilee Clock which commemorates Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee...

 area of London. In 2006, he became a patron of OffWestEnd.com, a listings site for theatre outside the mainstream. His more recent stage appearances include the leads in The Royal Hunt of the Sun

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

The Royal Hunt of the Sun is a 1964 play by Peter Shaffer that portrays the destruction of the Inca empire by conquistador Francisco Pizarro.-Premiere:...

and The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones is a 1920 play by American dramatist, Eugene O'Neill which tells the tale of Brutus Jones, an African-American man who kills a man, goes to prison, escapes to a Caribbean island, and sets himself up as emperor...

at the Olivier Theatre

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company....

, London.

Films

Year	Film	Role
1993	In the Name of the Father	Benbay
2000	The Long Run The Long Run (film) The Long Run is a 2000 film starring Oscar nominee Armin Mueller-Stahl and Nthati Moshesh. It was directed by Jean Stewart and written by Johann Potgieter....	Gasa
	The Beach The Beach (film) The Beach is a 2000 drama film by the Trainspotting team of writer John Hodge, producer Andrew Macdonald and director Danny Boyle based on The Beach, a 1996 novel by Alex Garland...	Keaty
	Greenfingers Greenfingers Greenfingers is a 2000 film directed by Joel Hershman. It is loosely based on a true story about the award-winning prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds, England.-Cast:*Clive Owen – Colin Briggs...	Jimmy
2004	The Baby Juice Express	Sean Boetang
2005	Æon Flux Æon Flux (film) Æon Flux is a 2005 science fiction film released on December 2, 2005. The film is a loose adaptation of the animated science fiction television series of the same name, which was created by animator Peter Chung and stars Charlize Theron as the title character.-Plot:In a post-apocalyptic future,...	Giroux

Television

Year	Series	Role	Notes
1992	Between the Lines	Sgt. Viv Jones	Episode "Words of Advice"
1994	Soldier Soldier Soldier Soldier Soldier Soldier is a British television drama series. The title comes from a traditional song of the same name.Produced by Central Television and broadcast on the ITV network, it ran for a total of seven series and 82 episodes from 1991 to 1997...	Fusilier Eddie Nelson	Episode "Changing the Guard"
1994-1998	Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, 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...	Michael Mark Grace	Appeared in the 1994 episode "Hidden Agendas" as Michael Joined main cast in 1997 as Mark Grace appearing from "Give my Love to Esme" to "New Year and All That".
1996	Neverwhere Neverwhere Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two. The series is set in "London Below", a magical realm coexisting with the more familiar London, referred to as "London Above". It was devised by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry, and directed by Dewi...	Marquis de Carabas	Appeared in all six episodes
2000	Safe as Houses	Gabriel
2001	Armadillo	Alan
	Now You See Her	Mark
	Cold Feet Cold Feet Cold Feet is a British comedy drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his award-winning 1997 Comedy Premiere of the same name. The storyline follows three couples experiencing the...	Suggs	Episodes 4.5 and 4.6
2002	Waking the Dead Waking the Dead (TV series) Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode was transmitted in September 2000 and there have been a total of...	Dermot Sullivan	Episode "Life Sentence: Part 1"
	Silent Witness Silent Witness Silent Witness is an acclaimed BBC thriller series, focusing on a team of forensic experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in 1996, the twelfth series was broadcast from 1 October - 6 November 2008. The series was created by Nigel McCrery, a former murder squad...	Sergeant Terry Harding	Episode "The Fall Out", parts 1 and 2
2003	Loving You	Felix Fisher
	A Touch of Frost A Touch of Frost (TV series) A Touch of Frost is a detective television series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV in the United Kingdom.It stars David Jason as Detective Inspector William Edward Frost, GC, known as Jack to everyone but his late wife . He is experienced and dedicated to his work,as well as being extremely...	Colin Stokes	Episode "Close Encounters"
2003-2005	William and Mary William and Mary (TV series) William and Mary is an ITV romantic comedy drama, starring Martin Clunes as William Shawcross, an undertaker, and Julie Graham as Mary Gilcrest, a midwife. Its title refers to its 2 principal characters and is a cultural reference to the reign of the English monarchs William and Mary. It was...	Reuben	Appeared in ten episodes
2003-	Peep Show Peep Show (TV series) Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb themselves, amongst others. It has been broadcast on Channel 4 since 2003, with the first episode of Series 6 aired on 18...	Alan Johnson	Has appeared in 11 episodes
2004	Murphy's Law Murphy's Law (TV series) Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Northern Ireland, starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy. Since 2003 there have so far been five series of the drama, shown on BBC One...	Dr. Mark Maddison	Episode "The Group"
	Sex Traffic Sex Traffic Sex Traffic is a British-Canadian television 2-part drama production about the trafficking of women first shown in the UK and Canada in October 2004.It was written by Abi Morgan, directed by David Yates and stars Anamaria Marinca and John Simm...	Martin
	My Dad's the Prime Minister My Dad's the Prime Minister My Dad's the Prime Minister is a British sitcom written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It centres around the life of the Prime Minister, his family and his spin doctor...	Detective Gary McRyan	Appeared in six episodes
2004-2006	Green Wing Green Wing Green Wing is an award-winning British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital Trust. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt....	Lyndon Jones	Appeared in nine episodes
2005	Dalziel and Pascoe Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series) Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives. The series differs from the books in many ways, particularly removing some of the...	Alisdair Collinson	Episode "Heads You Lose", parts 1 and 2
	Elmina's Kitchen	Deli
	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor" who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box...	Rodrick	Episodes "Bad Wolf Bad Wolf "Bad Wolf" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 11 2005. It is the first of a two-part story... " and "The Parting of the Ways The Parting of the Ways "The Parting of the Ways" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on 18 June 2005. It is the second of a two-part story. The first part, "Bad Wolf", was broadcast on 11 June... "
	Rose and Maloney Rose and Maloney Rose and Maloney is a British television crime drama starring Sarah Lancashire and Phil Davis as Rose Linden and Maloney, two investigators working for the fictional Criminal Justice Review Agency. This agency takes on claims of miscarriages of justice, assessing whether there are grounds to...	Harry Callaghan	Episode 2.1
	Jericho	Shorty	Episode "A Pair of Ragged Claws"
	Open Wide	Neil
2006	Mayo Mayo (TV series) Mayo was a comedy detective drama television series made by the BBC and starring Alistair McGowan, Jessica Oyelowo, Huw Rhys and Loo Brealey. The series is based on a popular series of Gil Mayo mysteries books by Marjorie Eccles. It was filmed on location in and around Leamington Spa. The series...	Dr. Rossi	Episode 1.1
	That Mitchell and Webb Look That Mitchell and Webb Look That Mitchell and Webb Look is a BAFTA award winning British television sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, that has currently run for three six-part series. The first episode of the third series aired on June 11 2009. The first episode originally aired 14 September 2006 on BBC...	Simon Various characters
2006-2007	Hyperdrive Hyperdrive (TV series) Hyperdrive is a British television science fiction sitcom series produced by the BBC created under the working title of "Full Power." BBC2 broadcast two seasons in 2006 and 2007, A third season is yet to be commissioned...	Space Marshal Clarke	Appeared in seven episodes
2007	Jekyll	Benjamin Maddox	Appeared in four episodes
	Chop Socky Chooks Chop Socky Chooks Chop Socky Chooks is a British animated television series produced by Aardman Animations and DHX Media that debuted on March 7, 2008. It was created by animator Sergio Delfino, a prominent animator at Aardman. It currently airs only on Teletoon . For now, it airs on Cartoon Network, except in the USA...	KO Joe
2008	Survivors Survivors (2008 TV Series) Survivors is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme is a re-imagining of the BBC television series Survivors created by Terry Nation and depicts the activities of a group of people who survived a virulent strain of mutant or genetically engineered...	Greg Peston	Main character throughout series
2009	The No1 Ladies' Detective Agency The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (TV series) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a television comedy-drama series, produced by the BBC in conjunction with HBO, and based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. The novels focus on the story of a detective agency opened by Mma Ramotswe and her courtship with the mechanic Mr....	Cephas Buthelezi	Episode 5 "Beauty and Integrity"
	Boy Meets Girl Boy Meets Girl (TV series) Boy Meets Girl is an ITV comedy-drama television mini-series starring Rachael Stirling and Martin Freeman. In the show, Danny Reed is struck by lightning. When he wakes up from the attack, he is inside the body of a woman, fashion journalist Veronica Burton...	Jay Metcalfe