Nicholas Brown

On stage in 2022 Brown played Edmond Rostand opposite Angie Milliken in Queensland Theatre's production of Bernhardt / Hamlet. On screen he played the role of Chubba in Tim Minchin's Upright Season 2, Hamish in the Netflix film A Perfect Pairing, Paul in Channel 9's drama series After the Verdict and Rahul in Joe vs. Carole. In 2021 he played the role of Miles in the Stan film Christmas on the Farm, appeared in the drama series Wakefield and played Sigrid Thornton's love interest Dr. Omar Sebastian in the Channel 9 drama series Amazing Grace. From 2019 to 2020 Brown appeared in the smash hit stage musical Come from Away as Kevin J at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne. From 2015 to 2019, Brown appeared in the TV shows The Unlisted for Netflix, Harrow, The Letdown and The Code 2. He played the lead role of Sid in the film Laka and was cast as a regular presenter on Play School. From 2016 to 2019 Brown appeared in the plays Lighten Up at Griffin Theatre in Sydney, Still Point Turning for Sydney Theatre Company, The Long Forgotten Dream (Sydney Theatre Company) and the Helpmann Award-winning play Counting and Cracking at Belvoir for Sydney Festival. In 2015 Brown played the role of Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar directed by Alyque Padamsee in Mumbai. He also played Lumiere in Disney India's Beauty and the Beast which toured to Mumbai and Delhi. Earlier TV credits include Mr & Mrs Murder, Packed to the Rafters and the real life heroin drug smuggler Supahaus Chowdury in the Australian television show Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away. Brown has also appeared in the police series City Homicide, Anh Do's Channel 7 comedy pilot Lucky Dragon, and Australian feature films The Characters, Temptation and A Man's Gotta Do. His other television credits include Home and Away, White Collar Blue, Heartbreak High, Drama School and The Cooks. Acting in many international theatre festivals, in 2010 Brown performed in three new plays at the Australian National Play Festival in Brisbane, in Rehaan Engineer's ‘'Seven Jewish Children'’ by Caryl Churchill, Project 88 Art Gallery in Mumbai and Doctrine: How to Survive Under Siege in Brussels, Belgium, for the Kunsten Festival Des Arts. Brown also represented the NIDA company at the UNESCO 2007 drama schools festival in Transylvania Romania, playing Orestes in Aeschylus's Ancient Greek tragedy The Oresteian Trilogy. Shortly after moving to Mumbai in 2007, Brown was cast as the villain Tony Grover opposite Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan in the film Kites, directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Rakesh Roshan. The film was re-cut for an English audience by Brett Ratner and was released worldwide as Kites The Remix. Kites was released worldwide in May 2010. Brown was typecast as the villain in India for several years playing the negative role in the film Unindian opposite Brett Lee and the villain Nikhil Madhvani opposite Shilpa Shetty in Miss Bollywood, which toured Germany and the UK including London's West End. Other theatre credits include There Is No Need To Wake Up at the Sydney Opera House directed by Barrie Kosky; Kurt Weill's Berlin to Broadway, directed by Jim Sharman; Spunks at the Stables Theatre; Frozen for Company B Belvoir St Theatre, directed by Kate Gaul; Toad in the Australian Shakespeare Company's productions of The Wind in the Willows, and Martin Crimp's Fewer Emergencies at the Old Fitzroy Theatre and 2005 Hi-5 Space Magic – World Tour. In May 2021, Brown played Petruchio in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew with Queensland Theatre (in the Bille Brown Theatre, Brisbane), directed by Damien Ryan.