Brett Fancy

Brett Fancy is an English actor who grew up in Portsmouth. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, receiving its Gold Medal for acting, and returned to Chichester Festival Theatre to join the repertory company; his first job there was a nightly fight sequence opposite Donald Sinden in Nicholas Hytner's production of The Scarlet Pimpernel. At the Royal National Theatre he played Kevin in Single Spies, appeared in Antony and Cleopatra, and was Eilif in Mother Courage opposite Diana Rigg. On television he broke through as the racist rookie detective Steve Hood in Rockliffe's Babies (1987) and went on to appear in series including Silent Witness and Luther. His film work began with a scene opposite Charlton Heston in Treasure Island (1990), and he later played a Russian mercenary in Outpost (2008) and a fireman in Lost Christmas (2011).