Joseph Maxwell Dempsie was born in Liverpool on the 22nd of June 1987 at Oxford Street hospital and spent his early life in the Newsham Park area with parents Gretta and Jim, but the family moved to Nottingham when he was just four months old and he grew up in West Bridgford. However he still has family living in Crosby and south Liverpool. Educated at the West Bridgford School, he honed his acting skills while attending the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham and made his first-on screen appearance in hit drama 'Peak Practice' (ITV1 1993-2002), aged thirteen. Following small parts in bittersweet road movie 'Heartlands' (2002), the rehab-based comedy 'One For The Road' (2003), one-off appearances in medical drama 'Sweet Medicine' (ITV1 2003), Doctors' (2001-04) and in the gentle nostalgic series 'Born & Bred' (BBC1 2002-05), he achieved his big break and rose to fame when he was cast as the strangely likeable party animal Chris Miles, arguably the most multi-layered and ultimately tragic character to grace the first two seasons of controversial teen phenomenon 'Skins' (E4 2007-2013). He later admitted lying about his age during the audition process as Brian Elsley, who created the show, was adamant he wasn't going to have actors too much older than the age they were supposed to be portraying. Joe was just coming up to his 19th birthday so one of the casting people told him to lie and tell him he was 17. Fresh from his departure from the show, he guested as soldier Cline on 'Doctor Who' (2008) and as the titular character's old friend William in 'Merlin' (BBC1 2008-2012). He next portrayed Leeds United striker Duncan McKenzie in the Brian Clough biopic 'The Damned United' (2009), followed by dopey moped gang member Higgy in Shane Meadows' gritty mini-series 'This Is England '86' (Channel 4 2010).
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| as Chris in 'Skins' |
Joe then had his first leading film role as one of six lost souls who find solace at a seaside hotel in indie drama 'Edge' (2010), and also appeared as PC Theo Nelson in the Jason Statham thriller 'Blitz' (2011). Returning to television, he played the villainous leader John in the BAFTA-winning paranormal drama 'The Fades' (2011), and worked with acclaimed directors Jimmy McGovern and Birger Larsen, delivering well-received performance as a threatening gang member in the former's legal drama 'Accused' (2012) and as an ex-soldier accused of homicide in the latter's 'Murder: Joint Enterprise' (2012). Having cropped up as Gendry, the skilled blacksmith bastard son of King Robert Baratheon, several times during the first two seasons of fantasy HBO hit 'Game of Thrones' (2011-19 ), he was promoted to a series regular for its third. After landing the role of Chris Cooper, a young soldier returning from Afghanistan whose brutal behavior kick starts a small-town tragedy in harrowing drama 'Southcliffe' (2013), he was cast as Frankie in the sequel to Gareth Edwards' low-budget hit, 'Monsters: Dark Continent' (2014) and returned to the costume drama genre as Ned Hawkins in 1680s epic 'New Worlds' (2014).
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| in Game of Thrones |
In September 2015 he was named Liverpool's seventh most famous movie star, with Jason Isaacs coming top of the list. A star role followed as Harry Clarke in the TV series 'Deep State' (2018-19) opposite Mark Strong, followed by the Netflix drama 'Pieces of Her' (2022) and as DI Miles Southgate in the TV series 'Showtrial' (2024).
His other Film credits include the BBC TV movie 'Gamechangers' (2015) opposite Daniel Radcliffe, Clio Barnard’s 'Dark River' (2017), the Netflix feature 'Beem So Long' (2018) opposite George MacKay and Michaela Coel and Marcelle Lunam’s 'Addition' (2024).
see also :- http://www.thefootballvoice.com/2025/06/a-history-of-liverpool-thespians-steven.html
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