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Joplin Sibtain

English actor (born 1969)

Summary

English actor (born 1969)

Field	Value
name	Joplin Sibtain
birth_name
birth_date
birth_place	London, England
other_names	Chook Sibtain
occupation	Actor
years_active	2000–present

Joplin Sibtain, sometimes credited professionally as Chook Sibtain, 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

Sibtain was born in Waltham Forest, London in 1969 to an English mother Mary, who named him after Janis Joplin, and an Arab father. The couple separated when Sibtain was young, and subsequently he was raised by his mother.

Sibtain 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. 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. 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

Film	Year	Film	Role	Notes	Television	Year	Title	Role
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
2025	The Strangers – Chapter 2	Billy Bufford
2000	EastEnders	Jack Robbins	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	url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/2018-02-10/meet-the-cast-of-bbc1s-hard-sun/	title=Meet the cast of BBC1's Hard Sun	last=Dowell	first=Ben	date=10 February 2018	website=Radio Times}}	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	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
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

References

"Chook Sibtain".
Sloan, Billy. (3 September 2000). "chook up; Walford new boy survived horror cricket accident to bowl over girls in Albert Square.". Scottish Daily Record.
Bannister, Rosie. (20 October 2014). "Meera Syal and cast rehearse NT's Behind the Beautiful Forevers".
Lambie-Nairn, Martin. (1997). "Brand Identity for Television: With Knobs On". Phaidon.
Sloan, Billy. (3 September 2000). "chook up; Walford new boy survived horror cricket accident to bowl over girls in Albert Square.". [[Sunday Mail (Scotland).
Dowell, Ben. (10 February 2018). "Meet the cast of BBC1's Hard Sun".

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