1. Ralph Brown won the Samuel Beckett Award for his first play Sanctuary written for Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1987, and the Raindance and Sapporo Film Festival awards for his first screenplay for the British film New Year's Day in 2001.
18 Facts About Ralph Brown
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Ralph Brown lived in Portsmouth, Hampshire until the age of seven, then moved to East Sussex where he attended Lewes Priory School.
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Ralph Brown graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a Bachelor of Laws in 1979.
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In 1997, Brown appeared in Steven Spielberg's slavery epic Amistad.
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Ralph Brown starred as DJ Bob Silver in The Boat That Rocked aka Pirate Radio, written and directed by Richard Curtis, Huge directed by Ben Miller, The Kid, directed by Nick Moran, Mission: London, a Bulgarian comedy directed by Dimitar Mitoviski which premiered in Sofia on 13 April 2010, and Sus, written by Barrie Keeffe and directed by Robert Heath.
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Ralph Brown worked on the film Killing Bono and the feature film Dark Tide in Cape Town, opposite Halle Berry, I, Anna with Gabriel Byrne and Charlotte Rampling, then went on to work on Tower Block in London, Jack the Giant Slayer directed by Bryan Singer, and Stoker in Nashville, directed by Park Chan-wook.
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Ralph Brown worked with Will Smith in Ang Lee's Gemini Man.
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In 2015 Ralph Brown starred in all ten episodes of Legends with Sean Bean, with whom he had worked on Extremely Dangerous in the early 1990s.
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In June 2016, Ralph Brown played the role of Bob Clay in the BBC film Reg.
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In September 2017 Ralph Brown travelled to Guadeloupe for a guest role in the BBC show Death In Paradise.
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In 2021, Ralph Brown portrayed former US President Lyndon Johnson in two episodes of Godfather of Harlem, a series on EPIX which explores the intersection between the criminal underworld and civil rights movement in the 1960s.
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Ralph Brown retired from the stage shortly thereafter, and returned briefly 20 years later at The Bush Theatre to play guitar in punk play The Dysfunkshonalz by writer Mike Packer.
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Ralph Brown wrote the play Sanctuary for Joint Stock Theatre Company in 1987 which toured the UK and won the Samuel Beckett Award in 1987 for best first play.
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Ralph Brown has written two plays, both rap musicals: Sanctuary for Joint Stock Theatre Company, adapted for the stage in Washington, DC, as Sanctuary DC produced by No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company.
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Ralph Brown wrote the screenplay for the film New Year's Day directed by Suri Krishnamma in 1999, released in 2001 after screening at Sundance Film Festival and winning Raindance Film Festival award in 2001 and Sapporo Film Festival in the same year.
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Ralph Brown wrote the screenplays for the abandoned films Red Light Runners, High Times and In God's Footsteps.
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Ralph Brown was a regular contributor to the Readers Recommend music blog in The Guardian, now at Song-Bar.
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Ralph Brown has been married to actress Jenny Jules since 1992.