Joe Absolom
Birthday: Born in 1978-12-16 in London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Joe Absolom (born 16 December 1978) is an English actor. He began acting in 1990 at age 11 in a peanut butter advertisement. After appearing in "Screenplay: Antonia and Jane (#5.2)" (1990) , he achieved fame as Matthew Rose in "EastEnders" (1985) in 1997 at age 18. After leaving "EastEnders" (1985) in 2000, he has appeared in Long Time Dead (2002), Extreme Ops (2002) and also popular television series "Doc Martin" (2004) and "Vincent" (2005) and most recently "Personal Affairs" (2009) .
TV Credits
EastEnders
Character: Matthew Rose
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough....
Doc Martin
Character: Al Large
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the fictional seaside village of Portwenn and filmed on location in the village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England, with most interior scenes shot in a converted local barn. Five series aired between 2004 and 2011, together with a feature-length special that aired on Ch...
The Bay
Character: Andy Warren
Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned....
Vincent
Character: Robert
Vincent is an ITV drama series. An initial series was made and aired in 2005 and starred Ray Winstone, in the title role, and Suranne Jones as two members of a team of private eyes hired by people to spy on their partners or indeed anyone else they need to keep tabs on. The four part series also starred Angel Coulby, Ian Puleston-Davies, Joe Absolom, Eva Pope and Philip Glenister. A second series was broadcast in the autumn of 2006....
P.O.W.
Character:
P.O.W. was a television series consisting of 6 episodes, broadcast on ITV in 2003. The series starred James D'Arcy and Joe Absolom. The drama series is based on true stories, set in Germany in the year 1940 and follows the character of Jim Caddon as he is captured after his plane crashes during a bombing raid over Normandy. In contrast to previous entries in the World War Two prison escape genre such as The Colditz Story, it concentrated on escape attempts by other ranks rather than officers. Th...
The Long Firm
Character: Tommy
The lives of characters who live, love and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks....
Hatfields & McCoys
Character: Selkirk McCoy
It’s the true American story of a legendary family feud—one that spanned decades and nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. The Hatfield-McCoy saga begins with Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy.. Close friends and comrades until near the end of the Civil War, they return to their neighboring homes—Hatfield in West Virginia, McCoy just across the Tug River border in Kentucky—to increasing tensions, misunderstandings and resentments that soon explode into all-out warfare bet...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Character: Fergus Markham
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Mike Barker. The serial stars Tara FitzGerald as Helen Graham, Rupert Graves as her abusive husband Arthur Huntington and Toby Stephens as Gilbert Markham....
Thorne
Character:
Thorne is a television drama series which debuted on Sky1 in the UK on 10 October 2010. It stars David Morrissey who plays the title role of Detective Inspector Tom Thorne created by crime writer Mark Billingham. The supporting cast includes Aidan Gillen, Eddie Marsan and Natascha McElhone....
The Level
Character: Shay Nash
A police detective finds herself at the centre of the most dangerous case of her life when she is seconded on to the investigation into the murder of a drugs trafficker. What nobody around her knows is that she is the missing witness that the police and the killer are searching for....
Midsomer Murders
Character: Luke Altman
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty. ...
Casualty
Character: Howard Jarrold
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Trevor's World of Sport
Character: Scott
Trevor's World of Sport began as a 2003 BBC television sitcom written and directed by Andy Hamilton and starring Neil Pearson as Trevor. Only one television series was made, and Hamilton felt mistreated by the BBC over the scheduling of the show. The first episode attracted an average of 3.4 million viewers, dropping to 2.9 million for the second and third episodes. The subsequent episodes were rescheduled from Friday evenings to Monday nights, despite the Radio Times issues having already been ...
Casualty
Character: Benny Steele
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: James Bentley
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions....
Silent Witness
Character: Kelvin Price
Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes....
Death in Paradise
Character: Aiden Parker
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie....
New Tricks
Character: Luke Hanson
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes....
Servants
Character: George Cosmo
Bold and irreverent drama following the fortunes of a group of servants in an 1850s English country house....
Loose Women
Character:
A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip....
A Confession
Character: Christopher Halliwell
The story of how Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher deliberately breached police procedure and protocol to catch a killer, a decision that ultimately cost him his career and reputation....
Loose Women
Character: Self
A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip....
Movie Credits
Farewell Doc Martin
Character: Self
Doc Martin, one of UK's iconic TV characters, hangs up his stethoscope for the final time as the long-running titular series comes to an end. This one-hour retrospective spotlights the longevity and impact locally and around the world of Doc Martin over the years, as well as offering behind the scenes of the final season with the cast and crew. From scripting and pre-production to shooting and delivery, meet the regular characters that live and work in the picturesque Cornish town of Portwenn, t...
Long Time Dead
Character: Rob
A group of British students embark on summoning spirits on a Ouija board after a night of clubbing. But someone breaks the link before they have finished and now a demon is trapped in their world and the only way to banish it, is for all the people who summoned it to die....
Extreme Ops
Character: Silo
While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists....
One of Those Days
Character: Counter Clerk
We've all had "one of those days" - when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be dealing you one poor hand after another. Unfortunately for Howard Whittam, that day is Judgment Day....
The Story of F***
Character: Baz
A frustrated music business executive accidentally creates a band called F**K and has to find a group of talentless no-hopers to take on the music industry and become rock stars....
I Spit on Your Grave 2
Character: Ivan
Broke, and in desperate need to update her portfolio, New York City model Katie calls a number from a tear-off flyer offering free photos. But this innocent attempt quickly turns into an unthinkable kidnapping nightmare where she's ripped away from everyone and everything she knows....
Dream
Character: Tommy
16-year-old Emma has a dream - her boyfriend Tommy, has a completely different one. Emma is less at the slow small town life; Tommy wants to get married and buy houses like everyone else....
The Best of EastEnders
Character: Matthew Rose (archive footage)
Join Adam Woodyatt, who has played the long suffering Ian Beale since the very first episode of EastEnders, as he takes the viewer on a special trip down memory lane. Adam re-lives the very best of the drama: the bust-ups and shocks, the cliffhangers (or "duff-duffs" as Adam calls them), the moments that made us laugh and the ones that made us cry....
Unconditional Love
Character: Benjamin Cain
A young criminal kidnaps a couple's young son and then blackmails them into committing his crime instead of asking for a ransom....
Antonia and Jane
Character: Daniel Nash
Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?...
Thorne: Scaredycat
Character: Stuart Nicklin
Two women have been murdered within hours of one another near St. Pancras station, but in quite different ways. When a connection is made with two other murders which occurred months before, but also on the same day, DI Thorne realizes two serial killers may be at work in a macabre partnership...
The Mermaid of Mevagissey
Character: Pete
Mathew Trewella is a lad adrift, living in the shadow of his brother Pete; fishermen in a small Cornish village. Banned from every pub, his options have run out. Whilst singing to himself at sea on Pete’s fishing trawler, Mathew finds a strange beast: unconscious, clearly female and part human, in the net. Seeing the chance to exploit this, the brothers smuggle it to the local aquarium and, roping in Pete’s wife Nessa, they debate what to do....
Jubilee
Character: Young Man
Two members of a right wing political party are on the campaign trail in a housing estate. During the course of a day knocking on doors, it becomes clear they have differing motivations for being there....