Charles Venn

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Charles Venn
Venn at the 9th Asian Awards in 2019
Born (1973-06-24) 24 June 1973 (age 50)
Queens Park, London, England
OccupationActor
Years active2001–present

Charles Venn (born 24 June 1973), formerly known by the stage names Chucky Venice and Chucky Venn, is a British actor, known for his roles as

Tremaine Gidigbi in Footballers' Wives
. He's co-starred with actors such as Michael Jai White, Tom Frederic & Erik Palladino. In 2018 he took part in BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with Karen Clifton.

Early life

Born in

Queens Park, London, he grew up on the tough Mozart estate, which was at the time a notorious inner-London sink estate.[1] As a boy his passion was for athletics.[2] He attended West London College [formerly Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College] studying performing arts.[3]

Career

Venn took a variety of roles as a jobbing actor, using the surname Venice. He got his big break in 2003 when he was cast as Curtis Alexander in the footballing drama Dream Team[2] on the satellite channel Sky One. Initially only contracted to appear in two episodes, he became part of the regular cast, appearing in 98 episodes in all until the character was killed off in 2005.

Venn moved to another football drama the following year, appearing as the cuckolded 'alpha male' Tremaine Gidigbi in the final season of Footballers' Wives.

In late 2006, Venn landed a role in the horror film sequel

Bourne Ultimatum, as Agent Hammond, and The Dark Knight
, as bodyguards of one of the film's main villains, Gambol. He can also be seen in the music video "Twisted" by Fredi Kruga. Venn guest starred in an episode of the series
subtitled throughout when the episode aired 17 July 2007. Prior to the Hull City-Tottenham Hotspur game on Setanta Sports on 23 February, Venn performed a strange[according to whom?
] monologue.

He appeared in the play The Brothers by

MC Harvey and Jason Barrett in the line-up.[4]

Venn played the lead role in the film A.W.O.L also starring Jade Asha and Rough Copy.

Venn joined the cast of

Morgan Jackson-King, in November 2011, appearing in the series from 10 January 2012. He departed the show on 28 May 2013. He played a firefighter on the Miranda 2014 Christmas Special: I Do, But to Who?
.

On 18 July 2015, Venn made his debut on BBC One's medical drama Casualty as the new nurse Jacob Masters. He later became a series regular.[2]

In January 2018, Venn participated in And They're Off! in aid of Sport Relief.

On 21 August 2018, Venn was announced as the fourteenth celebrity to join the

Karen Clifton[2]
and they finished in 6th place.

Partial filmography

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2012 TV Choice Awards Best Soap Newcomer EastEnders Nominated [5]
2012 Inside Soap Awards Best Newcomer EastEnders Nominated [6]
2012 Inside Soap Awards Sexiest Male EastEnders Nominated [6]
2013 The British Soap Awards Sexiest Male EastEnders Nominated [7]
2019 Inside Soap Awards Best Drama Star Casualty Nominated [8]
2021 Inside Soap Awards Best Drama Star Casualty Nominated [9]
2022 27th National Television Awards Drama Performance Casualty Nominated [10]

References

  1. ^ "Chucky Venn: Working hard to live his dream". Flavourmag. 2009-04-20. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Who is Strictly's Charles Venn? Find out everything you need to know". HELLO!. 2018-11-03. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  3. ^ "A day in the life of Khali Best: Part 1" (video). EastEnders. BBC Online. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Chucky Venn, Harvey & Jason Barrett star in The Brothers". Flavourmag. 2009-03-19. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  5. ^ Nickie (22 May 2012). "Vote in the TVChoice Awards". EastEnders. BBC. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  6. ^ a b Kilkelly, Daniel (19 July 2012). "Inside Soap Awards 2012 - longlist nominees in full". Digital Spy. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  7. ^ Kilkelly, Daniel (11 March 2013). "British Soap Awards 2013 voting opens, nominations revealed". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
  8. ^ "Inside Soap Awards 2019 longlist has been revealed". Digital Spy. July 2019.
  9. Hearst Magazines UK). Archived
    from the original on 2 October 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  10. ^ Morris, Lauren (24 May 2022). "NTA 2022 longlist revealed as David Tennant and Sex Education nominated". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022. Retrieved 23 May 2022.

External links

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