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| DOB: 11 February
1947
STAR SIGN: Aquarius
FILMS: Sid in THE
CHIFFY KIDS (serial)
TV: You name it,
Brian's been in it! Too many roles to list but they
include: Jack in BERYL'S LOT (Yorkshire 1970s); Mr Stuart
Hopwood in GRANGE HILL (BBC 1980-1983); Donald Worthington
in CORONATION STREET (1982); Tosh Carey in UP THE ELEPHANT
AND ROUND THE CASTLE (Thames 1980s); CASUALTY (BBC 1988);
Jerry McKenzie in EASTENDERS (BBC 1994); Richard Hillman
in CORONATION STREET (2001-2003); Ozias Harding in WHERE
THE HEART IS (Anglia 2004-2006); STRICTLY COME DANCING
(BBC 2007)
FAMILY: Brian has
two daughters, Lucy Jane and Ellen Louise, from his marriage
to actress Janette Legge (who played a French teacher
in the 1983 series of Grange Hill). Brian never knew his
father, of Algerian descent, for he was killed in a plane
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MR HOPWOOD MARRIES MARTIN'S MUM! Brian is now married
to Jacqueline Bucknell, who played Martin and Ben's mum in Series
24. Born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, he now lives in Brighton.
YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW...
Brian runs his own corporate entertainment firm, The Brilliant
Company, with Jacqueline Bucknell. Click here
to visit their web site. His villanous role in Coronation
Street won him several gongs at the 2003 British Soap Awards
- Best Actor, Best Exit, and - Villain Of The Year!
RETURN TO SCHOOL? Brian
has not ruled out a return to Grange Hill. "I'd love to
go back as headmaster", he says. But would Mrs Bassinger
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