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Bille Brown, AM (born 1952) is an Australian Shakespearean actor and acclaimed writer of plays. Brown was born in Biloela, Queensland and studied drama at the University of Queensland where he received and Honorary Doctorate of Letters. He began his career at Queensland Theatre Company, working alongside Geoffrey Rush. He also appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and London, in England. Bille Brown has also appeared in movies, including: Fierce Creatures (as "Neville"), The Dish (as "the Prime Minister"), Oscar and Lucinda (as "Percy Smith") and Singularity. Bille Brown... MORE

Bille Brown, AM (born 1952) is an Australian Shakespearean actor and acclaimed writer of plays. Brown was born in Biloela, Queensland and studied drama at the University of Queensland where he received and Honorary Doctorate of Letters. He began his career at Queensland Theatre Company, working alongside Geoffrey Rush. He also appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and London, in England. Bille Brown has also appeared in movies, including: Fierce Creatures (as "Neville"), The Dish (as "the Prime Minister"), Oscar and Lucinda (as "Percy Smith") and Singularity. Bille Brown has been a visiting Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and has also appeared on stage at Broadway in New York. In 1996 he directed the Australian stage production of Over the Top with Jim which exceeded box office expectations. Brown began his career as an actor with Queensland Theatre Company in the early 1970s. Bille's career took him abroad to Britain where he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), and was the first Australian commissioned to write and perform in their own play – The Swan Down Gloves. The show opened the Barbican Theatre (RSC's Home theatre from LESS