Joplin Sibtain

English actor (born 1969)

Joplin Sibtain

Born| 1969 (age 55-56)

London, England

Other names| Chook Sibtain
Occupation| Actor
Years active| 2000–present

Joplin Sibtain, sometimes credited professionally as Chook Sibtain,[1][2][3] is a British actor known for the Netflix series Safe, his seasons at the National Theatre and as Tarak Ital on the Doctor Who special, "The Waters of Mars". He voiced Olin in Horizon Zero Dawn. He won best actor at the New York Movie awards for the title role in Memory Man, and starred as Brasso in the Star Wars television series Andor.

## Biography

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Sibtain was born in Waltham Forest, London in 1969. He won a scholarship and attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He has performed in theatres including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.[4] In the 1990s he played the role of the masked troubadour, who made himself appear in the idents and the commercial bumpers of the Swiss Italian-language television channel TSI produced by Lambie-Nairn.[5] He is known for playing various film and television roles including Mickey, opposite Nick Nolte in Head Full Of Honey, Neil Chahal in the Netflix series Safe and Tarak Ital in Doctor Who.

## Selected filmography

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Film

Year  | Film  | Role  | Notes
2000  | The Stretch | Richard Asher  | as Chook Sibtain
2012  | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Alpha | Robert "Pepper" Bonifacio  | as Chook Sibtain
Short film
2018  | Head Full of Honey | Mickey  |
2022  | I Used to Be Famous | Dave  |
Television
Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes
2000  | EastEnders | Jack Robbins[6] | 15 episodes
as Chook Sibtain
2002  | Bad Girls | Naj Khan Din  | as Chook Sibtain
Episode: "Curtain Call"
2002–2008  | Doctors | Matt Brown & 3 other characters  | 10 episodes
as Chook Sibtain
2003  | Grease Monkeys | Deep  | as Chook Sibtain
Episode: "Grease Monkeys"
2005  | Footballers' Wives | Surjit  | as Chook Sibtain
Episode: "Episode #4.5"
Where the Heart Is | Gary  | as Chook Sibtain
Episode: "Together"
2006  | The Bill | Chris Dalton  | as Chook Sibtain
Episode: "413: Up Against the Wall"
Holby City | Eddie McGuire  | 2 episodes
as Chook Sibtain
2007  | The Sarah Jane Adventures | Mark Grantham[1] | 2 episodes
as Chook Sibtain
2009  | Robin Hood | Isabella's Guard  | as Chook Sibtain
Episode: "The Enemy of My Enemy"
Doctor Who | Tarak Ital  | as Chook Sibtain
Episode: "The Waters of Mars"
2011  | Hustle | Lloyd/Danush Larijani  | as Chook Sibtain
Episode: "Benny's Funeral"
2018  | Vera | Naz Ahmed  | Episode: "Blood and Bone"
Marcella | Nick  | Episode: "Episode #2.1"
Hard Sun | DS Herbie Sarafian[1] | 6 episodes
as Chook Sibtain
Safe | Neil Chahal  | 8 episodes
2022  | Monster Ships (TV series) | Narrator  | 8 episodes
2022–2025  | Star Wars: Andor | Brasso  | 9 episodes
2023  | Death in Paradise | Charlie Banks  | 1 episode
Video games
Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes
2017  | Horizon Zero Dawn | Olin  | as Chook Sibtain
Voice
Star Wars Battlefront II | —  | as Chook Sibtain
Voice
2021  | Necromunda: Hired Gun | The Shadow / Orlocks  | Voice
The Ascent | stackBoss Poone  | Voice
2022  | Triangle Strategy | Sorsley  | Voice
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga | —  | Voice
A Plague Tale: Requiem | Milo  | Voice

### Television idents and bumpers

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* TSI "Masked troubadour" idents and bumpers (1993-1997) (uncredited)

## References

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1. ^ a b c Dowell, Ben (10 February 2018). "Meet the cast of BBC1's Hard Sun". Radio Times.
2. ^ "Chook Sibtain". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 July 2017.
3. ^ "Joplin Sibtain". IMDb.
4. ^ Bannister, Rosie (20 October 2014). "Meera Syal and cast rehearse NT's Behind the Beautiful Forevers". WhatsOnStage.com.
5. ^ Lambie-Nairn, Martin (1997). Brand Identity for Television: With Knobs On. Phaidon. p. 205\. ISBN 9780714834474.
6. ^ Sloan, Billy (3 September 2000). "chook up; Walford new boy survived horror cricket accident to bowl over girls in Albert Square". Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) - via The Free Library.

## External links

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* Joplin Sibtain at IMDb
* Joplin Sibtain at the British Film Institute

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