# Daniel Brocklebank

Daniel Brocklebank (born 21 December 1979) is a British actor, best known for portraying the roles of Ivan Jones in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale (2005–2006), and Billy Mayhew in ITV's other long-running soap Coronation Street (2014–present). He is also known for his performance in the films Shakespeare in Love (1998), and The Hole (2001).

## Career

From 1994, Brocklebank has starred in various TV programmes such as Down to Earth (BBC), Born and Bred (BBC), Ed Stone is Dead (BBC 3/Channel 4), Casualty (BBC), The Bill (ITV) and played Ivan Jones in ITV's Emmerdale between the beginning of 2005 to the end of 2006. Other TV credits include The Crazy World of Captain Llama, Fair City, Doctors and Waterloo Road. Brocklebank's other films include: The Hole starring opposite Keira Knightley and Thora Birch, The Hours opposite Meryl Streep, Another Life, Merlin, The Devil's Arithmetic and The Criminal with Eddie Izzard.
Brocklebank has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in productions of As You Like It playing Silvius, Chiron in Titus Andronicus, Rowland in The Tamer Tamed and Ralph in Lord of the Flies. His other theatre credits include Martin Von Heilmann in The Curse of the Werewolf at the Union Theatre in London, John Rutherford in Rutherford and Son at the Royal Exchange in Manchester and John Honyman in Cressida for the Almeida Theatre in London's West End. Among other projects in 2008, Brocklebank starred in One Night in November, a new play by Alan Pollock directed by Hamish Glenn at the Belgrade Theatre, and in Big Love at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
In 2009, he played Brother Jasper and Kaisa in His Dark Materials, a co-production between the Birmingham Rep and the West Yorkshire Playhouse. In 2009, he completed filming Release, a British feature film, written by Christian Martin and Darren Flaxstone of FAQ's LTD, in which he plays the lead role of Father Jack Gillie. In 2010, Brocklebank starred in one of three new dark tales Little Deaths directed by Andrew Parkinson.
In December 2014, he joined the cast of Coronation Street as Billy Mayhew, the new vicar at Emily Bishop's parish, St. Mary's, and began dating the barman Sean Tully. He appears as Carl Saunders in the second (2014) and third (2015) series of the BBC's WPC 56. Brocklebank has played roles in other films such as Admiral; Soft Lad, and Native.

## Personal life

Brocklebank is gay. In a 2021 interview with Attitude, Brocklebank said,
   I pretend for a living, I didn't want to pretend in my private life. When you spend your life on screen, it's important to hold on to the bits that are real. Who I am in my real life should bear no relevance to what I play on screen [...] I remember my management in Los Angeles trying to convince me not to come out because they said it would affect work – and it did [...] I stopped being screen-tested for the heterosexual male leads, and I was either the gay best friend or the character parts.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1994 | Brum | Newspaper boy | Episode: "Brum and the Very Windy Day" |
| 1995 | Casualty | Greg Althorpe | Episode: "Shame the Devil" |
| 1997 | The Bill | Simon | Episode: "The Old Pals' Act" |
| 1998 | Merlin | Young Merlin | Miniseries; 2 episodes |
| 1998 | Monk Dawson | Young Dawson | Film |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Sam Gosse | Film |
| 1999 | The Devil's Arithmetic | Schmuel Lubitch | Television film |
| 1999 | The Criminal | Jonny | Film |
| 1999 | Oliver Twist | Board Clerk | 1 episode |
| 2000 | Sam's Circus | Private Mooch | Television film |
| 2001 | The Hole | Martin Taylor | Film |
| 2001 | Another Life | Newnie Graydon | Film |
| 2002 | The Hours | Rodney | Film |
| 2002–2003 | Ed Stone Is Dead | Adam Dearfield | All 13 episodes |
| 2002 | Doctors | Tim Garrett | Episode: "Time Bomb" |
| 2003 | Born and Bred | Connor Docherty | Episode: "His Brother's Keeper" |
| 2005 | Down to Earth | Ben | 2 episodes |
| 2005 | Pandora | Declan | Short film |
| 2005–2006 | Emmerdale | Ivan Jones | Regular role; 107 episodes |
| 2008 | The Bill | Ian Andain | Episode: "Spilt Blood" |
| 2010 | Release | Father Jack Gillie | Film |
| 2010 | Doctors | Matthew Thorn | Episode: "Echoes" |
| 2010 | Silent Things | PC Kearns | Short film |
| 2010 | EastEnders | Roger Green | 2 episodes |
| 2011 | Casualty | Tom Watkins | Episode: "Choose Your Illusion" |
| 2011 | Little Deaths | Frank | Film |
| 2011 | Justice | Jason | Episode: "Like Father Like Son" |
| 2011 | Age of Heroes | RMP Sergeant Hamilton | Film |
| 2011 | Waterloo Road | Karl Johnson | Series 7: Episode 2 |
| 2012 | Jeffrey | Jeffrey | Short film |
| 2013 | Cal | Ivan | Film |
| 2013 | Waterloo Road | Stuart Cooper | Episode: "Lies Mothers Tell" |
| 2013 | Imaginary Boys | Simon | Film |
| 2014 | Three Minutes | Casey | Short film |
| 2014 | Doctors | Dave Walker | Episode: "Blink" |
| 2014 | Holby City | Craig Donovan | Episode: "My Name Is Joe" |
| 2014 | Air | Daniel | Short film |
| 2014 | Turn Off Your Bloody Phone | Model | Short film |
| 2014 | Chasing Shadows | Dr Francis | Episode: "Off Radar: Part 1" |
| 2014–present | Coronation Street | Billy Mayhew | Regular role |
| 2014–2015 | WPC 56 | Carl Saunders | Main role; 6 episodes |
| 2015 | Admiral | Lord Chancellor | Film |
| 2015 | Midsomer Murders | Brian Grey | Episode: "The Ballad of Midsomer County" |
| 2015 | Soft Lad | Jules | Film |
| 2016 | Native | Delin | Film |
| 2016 | Prisoner Zero | — | Voice only; 17 episodes |
| 2016 | The Confessions of Dorian Gray | James Anderson | 4 episodes |

### Theatre

* Lord of the Flies (Ralph) (1995) RSC
* Mensch Mier (Ludwig) (1996) Leicester Haymarket
* The Tamer Tamed (Rowland) (2003–2004) RSC
* Titus Andronicus (Chiron) (2003) RSC
* As you like it (Silvius) (2003) RSC
* Cressida (John Honyman) (2000) Almeida in the West End
* His Dark Materials (Brother Jasper) (2009) Birmingham Rep