Brennan Brown

Brennan Brown is an American actor, perhaps best known for playing Orange's spoof film board executive Mr. Dresden in the long-running series of UK cinema ads.

Orange Wednesday adverts

Brown's character Mr Dresden (the executive of the Orange Wednesdays cinema sketches) appeared in 24 ads with sidekick Elliot (Steve Furst), spoofing movies and film stars such as Rob Lowe, Dennis Hopper, Macaulay Culkin, Val Kilmer, Mena Suvari, Michael Madsen, Steven Seagal, Sean Astin, Patrick Swayze, Carrie Fisher, Roy Scheider, Spike Lee, John Cleese, Anjelica Huston, Alan Cumming, Verne Troyer, Daryl Hannah, Ewan McGregor, Snoop Dogg, Darth Vader, Emilio Estevez, Juliette Lewis, Sigourney Weaver and Danny Glover. The long-running campaign which promoted the Orange phone network's two-for-one tickets deal every Wednesday ended in May 2010.^[1]

Movies and television

• Played Miles Foster in two episodes of Ugly Betty (2009)
• Played Robert Treat Paine in HBO's John Adams
• Played Bob Goodrich in the 2002 movie Monday Night Mayhem
• Played Jerry Rivers in the episode "The Gift" (2003) of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Played Donald Houseman in the episode "The Ring" (2002) of Law & Order, as well as Forensic Technician in the episode "Teenage Wasteland" (2001)
• Played Ron Zinn in the episode "A Very Great Man" (2001) of The Education of Max Bickford
• Played Engineer in the episode "Somebody's Fool" (2001) of Deadline
• Played Atty Brendan Walsh in the episode "Asunder" (2000) of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Appeared in Deep Impact (1998)
• Appeared in State of Play (2009)
• Appeared in I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
• Appeared in Damages (2009)

Theatre

• Played David in the play Absolution in 2002.
• Played Richard III in the play of the same name, and Tomas in The Imaginary Invalid at Yale Repertory Theatre.
• Played Snobby Price in the Broadway production of Major Barbara.
• Brennan also performed in New York in the play The Second Man at the Keen Theatre, as well as in Asylum and Fair Night at Naked Angels.

Personal life

Brennan married Jenna Stern in 1998, making himself the son-in-law of Samantha Eggar and Tom Stern.

References

External links

• Brennan Brown at the Internet Movie Database
• Brennan at American Repertory Theater