Craig Fairbrass (born 15 January 1964) is an English actor. The big
man is best known for his role as English villain Delmar in the 1993
action film Cliffhanger, as Dan Sullivan in the BBC soap opera
EastEnders, and as Pat Tate in the Rise of the Footsoldier film
series. Fairbrass had other notable roles in the films White Noise:
The Light (2007), The Bank Job (2008), as well as lead roles in
Devil's Playground (2010), St George's Day (2012), The Outsider
(2014), Breakdown (2016), and London Heist (2017). More recently the
critically acclaimed Villain and the highly anticipated
Muscle.[sentence fragment] He also voiced several iconic characters in
the Call of Duty video game franchises Gaz, Ghost and Walcroft as well
as the motion capture games Battlefield V, Star Citizen and Squadron
42.Fairbrass was born in Mile End Hospital in East London, the son of
a machinist dressmaker and stevedore docker, Jack and Maureen
Fairbrass. After being expelled from Eaglesfield Boys Comprehensive in
Woolwich at 15, Fairbrass successfully auditioned for the National
Youth Theatre.He then worked as a roofer's labourer for the following
years, while managing to land an agent. After a few years of doing
walk-on roles in Emmerdale, Three Up Two Down, and Shelley, Fairbrass
made his first real TV appearance as an actor in the 1984 BBC
television series Big Deal as Nev in the episode "Fighting chance"
followed by another BBC role in Tuckers Luck.
man is best known for his role as English villain Delmar in the 1993
action film Cliffhanger, as Dan Sullivan in the BBC soap opera
EastEnders, and as Pat Tate in the Rise of the Footsoldier film
series. Fairbrass had other notable roles in the films White Noise:
The Light (2007), The Bank Job (2008), as well as lead roles in
Devil's Playground (2010), St George's Day (2012), The Outsider
(2014), Breakdown (2016), and London Heist (2017). More recently the
critically acclaimed Villain and the highly anticipated
Muscle.[sentence fragment] He also voiced several iconic characters in
the Call of Duty video game franchises Gaz, Ghost and Walcroft as well
as the motion capture games Battlefield V, Star Citizen and Squadron
42.Fairbrass was born in Mile End Hospital in East London, the son of
a machinist dressmaker and stevedore docker, Jack and Maureen
Fairbrass. After being expelled from Eaglesfield Boys Comprehensive in
Woolwich at 15, Fairbrass successfully auditioned for the National
Youth Theatre.He then worked as a roofer's labourer for the following
years, while managing to land an agent. After a few years of doing
walk-on roles in Emmerdale, Three Up Two Down, and Shelley, Fairbrass
made his first real TV appearance as an actor in the 1984 BBC
television series Big Deal as Nev in the episode "Fighting chance"
followed by another BBC role in Tuckers Luck.
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