Nathan David Bryon (born 3 July 1991) is a British actor and author best known for playing Jamie Bennett in ''

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'' and Joey Ellis in the

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sitcom ''

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'' from 2016 to 2018. Bryon was born in

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, London, to a White British father and a Jamaican mother. He attended ADT school in Putney now called Ashcroft Technology Academy. In June 2019, Puffin published Bryon's first book, ''Look Up!'', conceived jointly with illustrator

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. It won both the overall award and the illustrated book award at the 2020

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. Adeola later complained that, although Bryon had given him full credit for his part in the book's creation, both the book trade and the media minimized the significance of the illustrator's role. Bryon published a play in July 2019 called ''Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency'' and another book in July 2020 called ''Clean Up''. In March 2021, Puffin announced Nathan as the first Puffin World of Stories ambassador.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bryon, Nathan British male television actors Living people 21st-century British male actors 1991 births Black British male actors English people of Jamaican descent