Nicholas Brown is Samir

A charismatic doctor, Indian and single.
All women love him … or so he thinks.

Since graduating from NIDA in 2000, Nick’s feature film credits include lead roles in the Bollywood films Awake, written and directed by Atul Mongia, Ice Cube Films’ Love You To Death and Kites opposite Hrithik Roshan. In Australia, Nick has appeared in the films Random 8, directed and written by Katherine Millard, A Man’s Gotta Do, Temptation and The Characters.

On TV, he has appeared in Packed To The Rafters, Mr and Mrs Murder, The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting, Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away, Lucky Dragon, City Homicide, Home and Away, The Cooks, White Collar Blue and Heartbreak High.

Nick has recently worked on the Seven Network pilot Dr Feelgood and will play Jesus in Alyque Padamsee’s Jesus Christ Superstar in Mumbai.

His theatre credits include Dead Man Brake (Merrigong Theatre), The Laramie Project (Sydney Theatre Company Education), A Counting And Cracking Of Heads (CarriageWorks), Seven Jewish Children (Project 88 Art Gallery, Mumbai), Doctrine: How to Survive Under Siege (Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels), Miss Bollywood – The Shilpa Shetty Musical (Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, and Netherlands and German tour), The Oresteia, Romeo and Juliet (representing the NIDA company at the 9th International Drama Schools Festival in Transylvania, Romania), Fewer Emergencies (Any Road Productions/ Tamarama Rock Surfers), Spew (Darlinghurst Theatre) and Frozen (B Sharp). As a singer, Nick was understudy on the 2005-2006 Hi-5 world tour. He released an album called Big Score in 2005 with his disco funk band The Modernists, played to sell out crowds at The Basement and The Metro, and received radio airplay on Triple J and FBI. Nick has also co-written for and recorded vocals with Listen Like Thieves, Louiz Banks and Bombay Dub Orchestra. He will release his single I Spent My Rent On A Record in early 2015 with his band Luck Now.

Nick is also a screenwriter and has written the upcoming Aussie Bollywood film Lighten Up, the fantasy film The Brownies and the art house film Tantra 2. His play version of Lighten Up is in development with Sydney Theatre Company and will be part of its Rough Drafts season in 2015.