Lisa Jên Brown is a Welsh actress and singer with the Welsh language folk band . She is originally from
Bethesda, Gwynedd, north Wales and is the daughter of Welsh actress Linda Brown, who runs in
Caernarfon
Caernarfon (; ) is a royal town, community and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,852 (with Caeathro). It lies along the A487 road, on the eastern shore of the Menai Strait, opposite the Isle of Anglesey. The city of Bangor is ...
. She attended drama school at , beginning her acting career at 14 years old; she landed her first acting break on the Welsh TV drama ' on
S4C
S4C (, ''Sianel Pedwar Cymru'', meaning ''Channel Four Wales'') is a Welsh language free-to-air public broadcast television channel. Launched on 1 November 1982, it was the first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking ...
. Brown met her husband, Martin Hoyland, the guitarist for , in London. They have two children.
Career
In 2015, Lisa Jên Brown's band won the best album award at the
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It is the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Since launching in 1967, the station broadcasts a wide range of content. ...
Folk Awards. Their album, ', was nominated for the Welsh Language Album of the Year award in 2016. She also has a successful career in acting, appearing in numerous Welsh drama series, such as ', ', ' and '.
Personal life
Brown is a supporter of
Welsh independence. "The right to govern ourselves in an independent Wales would give us a solid vessel to navigate our future with empathy, knowledge and strength," she said. "We are a country with different attitudes and perspective, tradition and culture – but we've been colonised, forced to always be second class citizens in our own country. Having independence means many things… but what excites me is the value and status our indigenous language will have – as a nation we'd be much more confident speaking our words."
References
Living people
Welsh actresses
21st-century Welsh women singers
Year of birth missing (living people)
People educated at Ysgol Tryfan
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