Name |
Martin Delaney |
Height |
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Naionality |
English |
Date of Birth |
8-June-1982 |
Place of Birth |
England, UK |
Famous for |
Acting |
Martin Delaney is a British actor. He started work in musical theatre, appearing in Peter Pan - The British Musical and Oliver! Following performances in the West End, Delaney swiftly moved into television with the Nickelodeon series, the Renford Rejects. He played loveable Jason Summerbee, the captain of the useless Soccer team and appeared in the show for 4 years. Renford Rejects was Nickelodeon's first UK project and is considered a classic cult children's sit-com. In 2003, he was employed by the same team that made Renford Rejects to Direct episodes of a children's drama, The A-Z of everything and again in 2010 to direct on a pilot for Disney. Delaney was nominated for the British Soap Awards for Best Young Actor (in 2000) and Best Actor (in 2001), both for his role of Paul Webb in Family Affairs.
Technically he has made three movies in Iceland. He starred in Beowulf and Grendel alongside Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgard, he played a US marine in Clint Eastwood directed, Flags of our Fathers with Ryan Phillipe, both shot on location on the island. He also appeared as himself, lent his voice to and co-produced Wrath of Gods, a feature documentary about the making of Beowulf and Grendel. Wraths of Gods won many awards at a number of film festivals. He was a co-writer of additional material for the British Comedy award nominated, The Kevin Bishop Show, in 2008. Also in film, he has made two smaller horror pictures. Stormhouse was released in the UK and the US, in which Delaney plays an American military technician Brandon Faber. In Judas Ghost, he plays the lead Jerry Mackay, leader of a Ghost Finder team in a spin-off feature, to New York Times Best Seller, Simon R. Green's Ghost Finder Series.
In 2012 he appeared in Kathryn Bigelow's film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty. As well as English, Delaney is fluent in German and French.