Martin Delaney (born June 1982) is an English actor and filmmaker. He has appeared in films such as ''

Zero Dark Thirty ''Zero Dark Thirty'' is a 2012 American thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. The film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for Osama bin Laden, leader of terrorist network Al-Qaeda, after the S ...

'', ''Judas Ghost'', and ''

Amar Akbar & Tony ''Amar Akbar & Tony'' is a 2015 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Atul Malhotra and starring Rez Kempton, Sam Vincenti and Martin Delaney in the lead roles. ''Amar Akbar & Tony'' is an independent British feature film. The title ...

''.

Early life

Delaney was born in

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

in June 1982, the son of an Irish father and Burmese mother. He is one of four children; his sister Jennie is a singer and performer, while his brothers Mike and Pat are both heavily involved in designing commercials and films for football clubs. He had a Catholic upbringing and attended school in Chislehurst, Kent.

Career

Delaney started work in

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, appearing in ''

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- The British Musical'' and ''

Oliver! ''Oliver!'' is a coming-of-age stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the 1838 novel '' Oliver Twist'' by Charles Dickens. It premiered at the Wimbledon Theatre, southwest London in 1960 before op ...

'' Following performances in the West End, Delaney swiftly moved into television with the

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series, the ''

Renford Rejects ''Renford Rejects'' is a teen sitcom produced and broadcast by Nickelodeon UK between 1998 and 2001. The show briefly aired in the United States on Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids, Nick GaS. Reruns used to be broadcast on Nickelodeon UK at ...

''. He played loveable Jason Summerbee, the captain of the useless Soccer team and appeared in the show for 4 years. ''Renford Rejects'' was Nickelodeon's first UK project and is considered a classic cult children's sit-com. In 2003, he was employed by the same team that made Renford Rejects to Direct episodes of a children's drama, The A-Z of everything and again in 2010 to direct on a pilot for

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. Delaney was nominated for the

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for Best Young Actor (in 2000), Best Actor and Best Newcomer (both 2001), for his role of Paul Webb in ''

Family Affairs ''Family Affairs'' is a British soap opera that aired on Channel 5. It debuted on 30 March 1997, the day of the launch of said channel and was the first programme broadcast on the channel. It was screened as five thirty-minute episodes per w ...

''. Post Family Affairs, he also starred in New Zealand's highest rated home-grown drama, ''

Shortland Street ''Shortland Street'' is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera centring on the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital, first broadcast on TVNZ 2 on 25 May 1992. It is New Zealand's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously ...

'', playing an edgy young chef from

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called Samuel Whittaker. He also briefly starred in sitcom ''

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps ''Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps'' is a British sitcom that ran from 26 February 2001 to 24 May 2011. First broadcast on BBC Two, it starred Sheridan Smith, Will Mellor, Natalie Casey, Ralf Little, Kathryn Drysdale and Luke Gell. Cr ...

'' where he played a

stylist Stylist can refer to: Occupations * Automotive stylist or car stylist, a person involved in designing the appearance and ergonomics of automobiles * Food stylist, a person who makes food look attractive in photographs * Hair stylist, a person w ...

from

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. Has appeared in BAFTA winning ‘Him & Her’, as well as ‘JOSH’ for BBC. Technically he has made three movies in

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. He starred in ''

Beowulf and Grendel ''Beowulf & Grendel'' is a 2005 Canadian- Icelandic fantasy adventure film directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem '' Beowulf''. It stars Gerard Butler as Beowulf, Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar, Ingvar Eggert ...

'' alongside

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and

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, he played a US marine in the

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directed, ''

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'' with

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, both shot on location on the island. He also appeared as himself, lent his voice to and co-produced ''

Wrath of Gods ''Wrath of Gods'' is a 2006 documentary film directed by Jon Gustafsson. It tells the story of the dramatic circumstances Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson and his crew had to go through during the making of the film ''Beowulf & Grendel''. The m ...

'', a feature documentary about the making of ''Beowulf and Grendel''. ''Wrath of Gods'' won many awards at a number of film festivals. He has written Queen’s Mile, a short film which was nominated for Best British Film at BAFTA qualifying Iris Prize in 2016. Other writing includes co-writer of additional material for the British Comedy award nominated, ''

The Kevin Bishop Show ''The Kevin Bishop Show'' is a sketch comedy written by and starring English comedian Kevin Bishop, part of the ''Star Stories'' team. The show was commissioned by Channel 4 for a six-part series starting on 25 July 2008 at 10 p.m. A pilot was b ...

'', in 2008. He has made two smaller horror pictures. ''

Stormhouse ''Stormhouse'' is a 2011 British independent horror film directed by Dan Turner and starring Grant Masters and Katie Flynn. Plot Four months before the war in Iraq, a supernatural creature is caught by the United States army and locked in a Br ...

'' was released in the UK and the US, in which Delaney plays an American military technician Brandon Faber. In ''Judas Ghost'', he plays the lead Jerry Mackay, leader of a Ghost Finder team in a spin-off feature, to ''New York Times'' Best Seller, Simon R. Green's ''Ghost Finder'' Series. In 2012, he appeared in a role in

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's Oscar winning film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, ''

'' and starred 2014 in the Fantasy horror film

Judas Ghost ''Judas Ghost'' is a 2013 horror film directed by Simon Pearce and written by Simon R. Green based on his ''Ghost Finders'' novels. Plot A team of professional ghost finders are trapped in an old village hall. The haunting they set out to inves ...

. In 2014 he starred opposite Charlie Condou in "Next Fall" at The Southwark Playhouse in the West End, taking the role of Luke. ‘Next Fall’ is American play set in New York, written by Geoffrey Nauffts. 2014 was the UK debut, following a strong opening on Broadway. In 2015 British comedy film Amar Akbar & Tony opened to a limited audience in the U.K. it is currently shown on Netflix worldwide. Delaney plays Tony in the film, which has been described as an “homage to Bollywood”. 2016 Delaney played Bo Walsh in John M. Chu’s sequel to Now You See Me, Now You See Me 2. He also starred in the sequel to crime thriller

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, Bonded by Blood 2, which focuses on the new generation involved in the Essex gang-wars.

Films and TV

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Gadgetman ''Gadgetman'' is a 1996 American-British TV movie directed by Jim Goddard starring Martin Delaney and Marina Sirtis. Plot When an inventor is captured by kidnappers attempting to access ATMs, his son and his son's friends use computers to rescu ...

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Television

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'' as Jason Summerbee *''

'' as Paul Webb *''

'' as Samuel Whitaker *''

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Rock and Chips ''Rock & Chips'' is a British television comedy-drama miniseries and a prequel to the sitcom ''Only Fools and Horses''. The show is set in Peckham, southeast London, during the early 1960s, focusing primarily on the lives of Del Trotter, Fred ...

'' *''

Robin Hood Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature and film. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is depic ...

'' as Tiernan McMurrough *''

Teenage Kicks "Teenage Kicks" is the debut single by Northern Irish punk rock band the Undertones. Written in the summer of 1977 by the band's principal songwriter, the song was recorded on 15 June 1978 and initially released that September on independent Be ...

'' as Damien *''

Victoria Cross Heroes ''Victoria Cross Heroes'' is a three-part television UK docudrama recipients first broadcast by Channel 5 in 2006 that tells the stories of some of the recipients of the Victoria Cross. Production The series was commissioned to celebrate the ...

'' Lt. Ian Fraser *''

Him & Her ''Him & Her'' is a British television sitcom about a lazy twenty-something couple: Steve and Becky, who live in Walthamstow, London. It was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Three on 6 September 2010. It is written by Stefan Golasz ...

'' *'' The Promise'' *''

The Shadow Line ''The Shadow-Line'' is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial in New York's ''Metropolitan Magazine'' (September—Oct ...

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Delaney, Martin English male television actors Living people 1982 births