Louis Emerick
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Louis Emerick, born June 10, 1953, Liverpool, England, UK, is a British TV actor, best known for his portrayal of Mick Johnson in the soap opera Brookside.
He currently plays a police officer in the BBC One series Last of the Summer Wine and had a minor role in the British film Layer Cake. He has made an appearance on BBC's Strictly African Dancing as part of Africa Lives season. He pulled last place.
He is also starring as Mike Bateman in the BBC One hospital series Casualty.
During 2006 Louis' familiar sounding voice could be heard advertising certain products for radio (especially for Manx Radio station "Energy FM").
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Career
He started out his theatrical life acting and singing in amateur productions, in particular being a long time member of Genesis Theatre, who were active from 1974 - 1982 in the Manchester area of the UK. At the time he still had a daytime job. In this theatre group he took lead parts in Hair,Stag, Demolition Man,You're A Good man Charlie Brown, Marilyn and many more.After the theatre group broke up in 1982 he went on to further his career and subsequently turned professional. For more information on Genesis Theatre see :- www.genesistheatre.co.uk, and also their wikipedia site. He often performs in several small scale community theatre productions in his hometown of Liverpool. Locals promote these productions by telling people that, 'It has Mick from Brookie in it!'
However, his acclaimed stage performances in productions such as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Liverpool's Playhouse Theatre, 2004) give a true measure of his talent and power as a stage actor.
[edit] Personal life
Emerick lives in Liscard, Merseyside next to Liscard Primary School.
[edit] Filmography
- The Fruit Machine (1988), a/k/a/ Wonderland (USA), as Billy
[edit] External links
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