Joseph Gilgun

Acting · Born 1984-03-09 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK

Biography

Joseph William Gilgun (born 9 March 1984) is an English actor known for several roles, including that of Vinnie O'Neill in the Sky One series Brassic, Eli Dingle in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, Jamie Armstrong in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, Woody in the film This Is England (2006) and its subsequent spin-off series, and Rudy Wade in E4's Misfits. From 2016 to 2019, he starred in the AMC television adaptation of the Vertigo comic Preacher as the Irish vampire Cassidy. Gilgun was born in Chorley, Lancashire, to Judith and Andrew Gilgun. He grew up in Rivington, Lancashire, as part of a working-class family with his two younger sisters, Jennie Seddon and Rosie Thomson. Gilgun attended Rivington VA Primary School and Southlands High School. He has dyslexia and ADHD,…

Filmography

• This Is England as Woody
• Pride as Mike
• Lockout as Hydell
• Henry as Martin
• Tennis as Jerry
• Vegas Baby! as Rudy Wade
• The Infiltrator as Dominic
• The Last Witch Hunter as Ellic
• Harry Brown as Kenny

TV

• Misfits as Rudy Wade
• This Is England '86 as Richard 'Woody' Woodford
• Brassic as Vincent "Vinnie" O'Neill
• Shameless as Rico
• Emmerdale as Eli Dingle
• This Is England '90 as Richard 'Woody' Woodford
• This Is England '88 as Richard 'Woody' Woodford
• Preacher as Cassidy
• Ripper Street as Carmichael
• Sorted as Mechanic