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Emun Elliott is a Scottish actor, known for portraying Dr. Christian King in Paradox, Richie in Threesome, John Moray in The Paradise, and Kenny in Guilt.

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Emun Elliott
Born	Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma mater	Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2005–present

Background

Elliott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland as Emun John Mohammadi.[1][2] His father is of Persian descent; his mother is Scottish.[3] He was raised in Duddingston, Portobello, Edinburgh, and attended George Heriot's School before beginning a degree in English literature and French at the University of Aberdeen.[4] Dropping out of university after a year,[5] he went on to train at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.[4]

Career

Elliott's television credits include Monarch of the Glen, Feel the Force, Afterlife and Paradox, in which he played the lead role of Dr Christian King. He also plays Jay Adams in the BBC Three drama Lip Service,[4] an episode of Inspector George Gently,[6] and the crime drama Vera.[7]

Elliott made his film debut in The Clan (2009). He appeared in Black Death (2010) and Strawberry Fields (2011).[7] He has lent his voice to the radio dramas Places in Between and Black Watch.[8]

On stage, Elliott has appeared in Black Watch as Private Fraser, a role he played for two-and-a-half years with the National Theatre of Scotland.[5] In 2010 he played Claudio in a production of Measure for Measure at the Almeida Theatre.[7]

In 2009, Elliott was named as "one to watch" by Screen International.[9]

Elliott starred as Richie, a gay man who gets his friend pregnant, in the Comedy Central sitcom Threesome.^{[citation needed]}. He appeared as charismatic 19th-century department store owner John Moray in the BBC One series The Paradise and played Andrew Brenner in the BBC One drama Trust Me. In 2019, he played Kenny Burns in the BBC Scotland drama Guilt.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Monarch of the Glen	Danny	Episode 7.5 (2005) Comedy-Drama
2006	Feel the Force	PC MacGregor	Sitcom
	Afterlife	Tariq	Roadside Bouquets (2006) Supernatural Drama
2009	Paradox	Dr Christian King	Sci-fi Crime Drama
2010	Lip Service	Jay	Drama
	Inspector George Gently	Damien Barratt	Peace And Love (2010) Period Crime Drama
2011	Vera	James Bennett	Telling Tales (S1, Ep2, 2011) Crime Drama
	Game of Thrones	Marillion	Epic fantasy drama
2011–2012	Threesome	Richie	Sitcom
2012	Labyrinth	Guilhem Du Mas
	The Paradise	John Moray	Period drama
	Falcón	Basilio Sánchez	Police drama
2013	Rubenesque	Grant	Dramedy
2016	Jonathan Creek	Stephen Belkin	Christmas Special (2016)
2017	Clique	Alistair McDermid	Series 1 Drama
2017	Trust Me	Andy Brenner	Series 1 Drama
2019–2021	Guilt	Kenny Burns	Series 1 & 2 Black Comedy - Drama
2022	The Rig	Leck Longman	Upcoming series

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2007	Then a Summer Starts	Luke
2009	The Clan	Cal McKinley
2010	Black Death	Swire
2012	Prometheus	Chance	Sci-fi
	Strawberry Fields	Kev	Drama
2013	Filth	Peter Inglis
	The Ring Cycle	Richard	Short film
2014	Exodus: Gods and Kings
2015	Scottish Mussel	Leon	Comedy
	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Brance
2017	6 Days	Roy	Biographical action
2018	Tell It to the Bees	Robert Weekes	Drama Romance
2021	Old	Adult Trent Cappa
2021	The King's Man	Black Watch Sergeant Major

Theatre

Year	Play	Role	Theatre	Notes
2015	Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge	Marco	Young Vic, London
2016	Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet	Pierre LaPorte	The Garrick, London
2017	Fatherland		Royal Exchange, Manchester
2019	The Rose Tattoo	Alvaro Mangiacavallo	American Airlines Theater, New York City

References

External links

Media related to Emun Elliott at Wikimedia Commons

• Emun Elliott at IMDb

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