1. Joe Gilgun was born in Chorley, Lancashire, to Judith and Andrew Joe Gilgun.
31 Facts About Joe Gilgun
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Joe Gilgun grew up in Rivington, Lancashire, as part of a working-class family with his two younger sisters, Jennie Seddon and Rosie Thomson.
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Joe Gilgun attended Rivington VA Primary School and Southlands High School.
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Joe Gilgun has dyslexia and ADHD, which he describes as the "biggest pain of [his] life" and in interviews has openly discussed depression and anxiety.
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Joe Gilgun started drama workshops at the age of eight, following advice from an educational psychologist, and was described as having "exceptional talent".
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Joe Gilgun trained at the Laine Johnson Theatre School and the Oldham Theatre Workshop.
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Joe Gilgun stayed with the show until he was thirteen years old.
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Outside of odd jobs and a few roles in small theatre productions, Joe Gilgun worked as a plasterer until returning to acting full-time with Emmerdale in 2006.
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Joe Gilgun left the soap when the actress playing his on-screen mother left the show.
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Joe Gilgun revisited the set in an ITV special The Kids from Coronation Street in 2004.
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Joe Gilgun took a break in his teens, acting part-time in local and national stage productions including the Salford-based Hanky Park the Musical at The Lowry.
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Joe Gilgun played Charlie Millwall in a critically acclaimed tour of the stage play Borstal Boy, which ended at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Joe Gilgun returned to acting full-time in 2006, when he won the roles of both trouble-prone Eli Dingle in long-running soap opera Emmerdale and kind-hearted skinhead Woody in This Is England, his debut as a film actor.
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In 2007, Joe Gilgun starred alongside welterweight boxing champion Michael Jennings in a locally produced feature-length documentary entitled Chorley: Where People Go to Fight.
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All proceeds went to Derian House Children's Hospice, with Joe Gilgun helping to present the cheque.
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Joe Gilgun was granted time off from Emmerdale to shoot the 2009 British crime thriller Harry Brown, where he played drug dealer Kenny Soames.
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Joe Gilgun announced he would leave Emmerdale on 10 November 2009, feeling the time was right to move on.
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Joe Gilgun reprised the character of Woody for three Channel 4 TV spin-off series of This Is England, called This Is England '86.
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On 9 May 2011, it was announced that Joe Gilgun had been cast as newcomer Rudy Wade in the third series of Misfits.
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Joe Gilgun appeared in the first episode of the third series in late October 2011.
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Joe Gilgun replaced as lead the character of Nathan following the departure of Robert Sheehan.
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Joe Gilgun appears in the music video for "Tiny Legs" by Then Thickens, released in 2014.
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In 2015, Joe Gilgun played Ellic in Breck Eisner's The Last Witch Hunter alongside Michael Caine, Vin Diesel, and Elijah Wood.
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In March 2015 Joe Gilgun earned the role of drug-addicted, Irish vampire Cassidy, one of the main characters in the AMC series Preacher.
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In Spring 2015, Joe Gilgun both filmed the pilot episode of Preacher, as well as The Infiltrator, a 2016 crime thriller film starring Bryan Cranston.
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Joe Gilgun was part of the main cast of all four series of Preacher which premiered on 22 May 2016 and concluded on 29 September 2019.
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Additionally, Joe Gilgun was an executive producer of the show, producing half of its third series and all of its fourth.
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In 2019, Joe Gilgun created, executive produced, and starred in the Sky One comedy series Brassic.
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Joe Gilgun has developed a close relationship with his co-stars from the This Is England stories, referring to them in interviews as "the gang".
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Joe Gilgun has opened up in podcasts and various media sources about his bipolar disorder and the effects that it has had on his life.
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Joe Gilgun has stated that many of the stories within the show Brassic are based upon his life.