Name	Joseph Gilgun
Height
Naionality	English
Date of Birth	9-March-1984
Place of Birth	Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK
Famous for	Acting

Joseph Gilgun is an English actor best known for playing Eli Dingle in ITV's Emmerdale, Woody in the film This Is England and its subsequent TV spin-offs, and Rudy Wade in E4's Misfits. As a child actor, Gilgun played little tearaway Jamie Armstrong in Coronation Street between 1994 and 1997. He left the soap when the actress playing his on-screen mother left. Gilgun revisited the set in an ITV special The Kids from Coronation Street in 2004.

Gilgun took a break in his teens, acting part-time in local and national stage productions including the Manchester-based Hanky Park the Musical at the Lowry. He played Charlie Millwall in a tour of the stage play Borstal Boy, which ended at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Critics liked the production. He found the break difficult, telling The Guardian in December 2011 that "I went off the fucking rails" and became confused about what to do with his life. He ended up working as a plasterer.

Joe Gilgun's debut as a film actor was as the kind-hearted skinhead Woody in This Is England, which he completed filming shortly before he started on Emmerdale. A semi-autobiographical feature film written and directed by Shane Meadows, it was released in the UK on 27 April 2007 and subsequently won several awards including a BAFTA for 'Best British Film' 2008. Joe was granted time off from Emmerdale to shoot the British crime thriller Harry Brown where he played drug dealer Kenny Soames. Harry Brown was released on 11 November 2009. Gilgun plays Hydell in US sci-fi film Lockout co-written and produced by Luc Besson and starring Guy Pearce. It was released on 13 April 2012. In 2007, Gilgun starred alongside welterweight boxing champion Michael Jennings in a locally produced feature-length documentary entitled Chorley: Where People Go to Fight. All proceeds went to Derian House Children's Hospice, with Joseph helping to present the cheque.