Derren Brown Wiki Biography
Derren Brown was born on the 27th February 1971, in Croydon, Greater London, England, and is an illusionist and mentalist, best known to the world from his numerous television specials, most notably “Derren Brown: Mind Control” (2000), “Derren Brown: Inside Your Mind” (2003), “Derren Brown: Messiah” (2005), and most recently “Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge” (2016), among many other differing creations.
Have you ever wondered how rich Derren Brown is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Brown’s net worth is as high as $7.5 million, an amount earned through his successful career, which has been active since the early ‘90s.
Derren Brown Net Worth $7.5 Million
Derren is the son of Chris and Bob Brown and has a brother who is nine years younger than him. He went to the private Whitgift School, located in South Croydon, and after matriculation, enrolled at the University of Bristol, where he studied the German language and Law. During his college years, Derren became interested in illusions and hypnotism when he went to a hypnotist show by Martin S Taylor, and from then on, decided that illusion and hypnosis would be his career. As early as 1992, he became a restaurant and bar act, performing his magic and slowly building up a name for himself. He soon reached the stage of his alma mater, the University of Bristol, and from there, showed himself to the whole world.
After several years of working in the shadows, Derren made his first TV appearance “Derren Brown: Mind Control” in 2000, and since then has produced 19 more TV specials, but also appeared in other variety shows that have only increased his wealth. He won a BAFTA TV Award in the category Best Entertainment (Program or Series) in 2012, for his TV special “Derren Brown: The Experiments” (2011). He has been seen in such shows as “Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind” (2004-2006), then “Derren Brown: Trick or Treat” (2007-2008), “Derren Brown: The Events” (2009), “Living the Life” (2013), “Choccywoccydoodah” (2014), and “Derren Brown Presents Twisted Tales” (2016), among many others, all of which were very popular, and increased his wealth to a large degree.
Aside from television appearances, Derren is also an accomplished author; he has written four books on magic, including “Absolute Magic”, “Confessions of a Conjuror”, and “Tricks of the Mind”, the sales of which have also contributed to his wealth.
Regarding his personal life, Derren is openly gay and has been in a long-term relationship with a designer, whose identity remains a mystery.
Since his early twenties Derren has been an atheist, though he was raised as a Christian with his parents sending him to Bible classes from when he was five years old.
He is also known for his dedication to and love for parrots – in his line of work, he finds their ability in mimicry fascinating; he is the patron of the registered charity the Parrot Zoo Trust in Friskney, Lincolnshire.
| Full Name | Derren Brown |
| Net Worth | $7.5 Million |
| Date Of Birth | February 27, 1971 |
| Place Of Birth | Purley, London, United Kingdom |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.753 m) |
| Profession | Illusionist |
| Education | University of Bristol, Whitgift School |
| Nationality | British |
| Parents | Bob Brown, Chris Brown |
| Siblings | Dominic Brown |
| Nicknames | Derren Victor Brown , Darren V. Brown |
| https://www.facebook.com/DerrenBrown | |
| http://www.twitter.com/derrenbrown | |
| Google+ | http://plus.google.com/+OfficialDerren |
| IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1494925/ |
| Awards | Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and Family, British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Programme |
| Movies | Derren Brown: An Evening of Wonders, Derren Brown: Miracles for Sale, Crooked House, Derren Brown: Enigma, Ghosts in the Machine, Medium Rare |
| TV Shows | Trick or Treat, Derren Brown: The Events, Apocalypse, Messiah, Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind, Mind Control with Derren Brown, The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, Derren Brown Investigates, Derren Brown The Specials, Derren Brown: The Experiments |
| Quote | |
|---|---|
| 1 | One of the hardest things I’ve had to learn is that if someone misunderstands you, it’s your own fault. |
| 2 | You can’t perform mind-reading all the time or you’d never be able to have friends or form relationships. |
| 3 | Returning for a moment to the theatre stage doors, it is not uncommon to meet there a small band of truly devoted people who follow me from show to show. Among this group are numbered an even smaller handful, who, having stood in the rain and cold with many other patient and delightful people awaiting my arrival, usher everyone else before them so that they themselves can spend more time with me after the others have left, as if they and I enjoy an exclusive relationship not extended to ordinary ‘fans’; and then, out of this same eagerness not to appear obsessive(as if the other people were being anything other than entirely flattering), they finally feign indifference and exaggerated nonchalance to the point of actual rudeness, wordlessly thrusting across photographs to sign and then looking away with a grand display of apathy while I accede to their requests. They are kind enough to have spent their money on several shows, sufficiently sweet to follow me from city to city and queue in unfavourable conditions when they should be getting home, yet in a misjudged effort not to seem like a loony, they act exactly like one. I have spoken about this with many performers, and it seems a very common occurrence – a wonderful, predictable glitch in our natures that makes us behave quite antithetically to how we would like to appear. I have, of course, made the same mistake. |
| 4 | (on finding a partner) If it happens, it happens, you know. The more you go out and look for it, the worse you make it for yourself. One day someone will turn up – or they won’t. But I’m sure one day they will. |
| 5 | I am embarrassingly incompetent at football or any kind of team sport. I’m so bad it would anger you. |
| 6 | I was inspired by a stage hypnotist, but I didn’t really want to do that – I didn’t want to make people look stupid. So I started doing magic. But the trouble with magic is that it’s either naff or, however good a trick it is, you know it’s just a trick. It’s inherently quite patronising. If you say, ‘When I click my fingers the coin travels through the air,’ you know it’s rubbish. |
| 7 | (Talking about two of his TV shows) “Seems The Séance has become the most complained-about show. It received 700 complaints. I might add that the prospect of me blowing my head off on live TV last year attracted only twenty. Fair enough, I suppose.” |
| Fact | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Had two dogs as a child called Tammy and Lucy. |
| 2 | Owned a parrot called Figaro for ten years, that went to live at The National Parrot Sanctuary in Friskney, Lincolnshire, UK, before passing away. |
| 3 | Is the patron for The National Parrot Sanctuary and its registered Charity – Parrot Line. |
| 4 | A principle demonstrated at one of his stage shows, of how the distraction of counting ping-pong ball transits prevents one from noticing the guys in gorilla suits entering the edge of vision, was used in a Mayor of London 2008 awareness campaign advert that alerted motorists to the need for looking out for unexpected cyclists. |
| 5 | His show, Something Wicked This Way Comes, won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment Show 2006. |
| 6 | Has a parrot named Rasputin. |
| 7 | Other than his main work, he is also an artist who paints caricatures of famous people. |
| 8 | Studied Law and German at Bristol University. |
| 9 | Attended Whitgift School, Croydon. |
| 10 | Lives in Marylebone, London. |
| 11 | Has one brother, Dominic, who is nine years younger. |
| 12 | Is a fan of Taxidermy. |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Next Great Magician | 2016 | TV Series executive producer | |
| Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge | 2016 | TV Movie documentary executive producer | |
| Derren Brown: Fear and Faith | 2012 | TV Mini-Series documentary producer | |
| Derren Brown: Apocalypse | 2012 | TV Mini-Series documentary executive producer – 1 episode | |
| Derren Brown: The Experiments | 2011 | TV Series documentary producer | |
| Derren Brown: Enigma | 2011 | TV Special executive producer | |
| Derren Brown: Hero at 30,000 Feet | 2010 | TV Movie executive producer | |
| Derren Brown Investigates | 2010 | TV Series documentary executive producer | |
| Derren Brown: The Events | 2009 | TV Series executive producer – 4 episodes | |
| Derren Brown: An Evening of Wonders | 2009 | TV Special executive producer | |
| Derren Brown: Trick or Treat | 2007-2008 | TV Series executive producer – 12 episodes | |
| Derren Brown: The System | 2008 | TV Special executive producer | |
| Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes | 2006 | TV Special executive producer | |
| Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind | 2004-2006 | TV Series documentary executive producer – 14 episodes | |
| Derren Brown: The Heist | 2006 | TV Special executive producer | |
| Derren Brown: The Gathering | 2005 | TV Special executive producer | |
| Derren Brown: Messiah | 2005 | TV Special documentary executive producer | |
| Derren Brown: Séance | 2004 | TV Special documentary executive producer | |
| Derren Brown: Inside Your Mind | 2003 | Video documentary producer |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derren Brown: Fear and Faith | 2012 | TV Mini-Series documentary writer | |
| Derren Brown: Apocalypse | 2012 | TV Mini-Series documentary deviser – 1 episode | |
| Svengali | 2012 | TV Movie | |
| Derren Brown: The Experiments | 2011 | TV Series documentary | |
| Derren Brown: Miracles for Sale | 2011 | TV Special documentary | |
| Derren Brown: Enigma | 2011 | TV Special writer | |
| Derren Brown: Hero at 30,000 Feet | 2010 | TV Movie | |
| Derren Brown: The Events | 2009 | TV Series material created and written by – 4 episodes | |
| Derren Brown: An Evening of Wonders | 2009 | TV Special written by | |
| Derren Brown: Trick or Treat | 2007-2008 | TV Series writer – 12 episodes | |
| Derren Brown: The System | 2008 | TV Special creator | |
| Mind Control with Derren Brown | 2007 | TV Series | |
| Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes | 2006 | TV Special | |
| Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind | 2006 | TV Series documentary routines – 2 episodes | |
| Derren Brown: The Heist | 2006 | TV Special | |
| Derren Brown: The Gathering | 2005 | TV Special | |
| Derren Brown: Messiah | 2005 | TV Special documentary | |
| Derren Brown: Inside Your Mind | 2003 | Video documentary |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherlock | 2014 | TV Series | Derren Brown |
| Crooked House | 2008 | TV Series | Sir Roger Widdowson |
| Medium Rare | 2007 | Short | Waiter |
| Psychic Secrets Revealed | 2003 | TV Series | Voiceover |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magicians | 2007 | the producers wish to thank |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derren Brown Presents Twisted Tales | 2016 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge | 2016 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Choccywoccydoodah | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Infamous | 2014 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Derren Brown: The Great Art Robbery | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Living the Life | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| This Morning | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| Stephen Fry: Gadget Man | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Fear and Faith | 2012 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Apocalypse | 2012 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself – Host |
| Sunday Brunch | 2012 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Svengali | 2012 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The One Show | 2012 | TV Series | Himself – Guest |
| Derren Brown: The Experiments | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Miracles for Sale | 2011 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Behind the Mischief | 2011 | TV Special documentary | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Enigma | 2011 | TV Special | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Hero at 30,000 Feet | 2010 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Ultimate Big Brother | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
| Derren Brown Investigates | 2010 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Channel 4’s Comedy Gala | 2010 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Derren Brown Presents the 3D Magic Spectacular | 2009 | TV Special | Himself – Host |
| The Xtra Factor | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| Derren Brown: The Events | 2009 | TV Series | Himself – Presenter |
| Ghosts in the Machine | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Derren Brown: An Evening of Wonders | 2009 | TV Special | Himself – Presenter |
| Derren Brown: Trick or Treat | 2007-2008 | TV Series | Himself – Presenter |
| Derren Brown: The System | 2008 | TV Special | Himself – Presenter |
| The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz | 2007 | TV Special | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Enemies of Reason | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Mind Control with Derren Brown | 2007 | TV Series | Himself – Host |
| Derren Brown: Something Wicked This Way Comes | 2006 | TV Special | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Trick of the Mind | 2004-2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself – Host / Illusionist |
| Derren Brown: The Heist | 2006 | TV Special | Himself – Presenter |
| The Big Fat Quiz of the Year | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
| Derren Brown: The Gathering | 2005 | TV Special | Himself – Host / Illusionist |
| Comic Aid | 2005 | TV Movie | Himself – Performer |
| Derren Brown: Messiah | 2005 | TV Special documentary | Host / Illusionist |
| Harry Price: Ghost Hunter | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Big Fat Quiz of the Year | 2004 | TV Special | Himself |
| Magic | 2004 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Séance | 2004 | TV Special documentary | Host / Illusionist |
| Richard & Judy | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 100 Greatest Scary Moments | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Inside Your Mind | 2003 | Video documentary | Host / Illusionist |
| Derren Brown Plays Russian Roulette Live | 2003 | TV Special documentary | Host / Illusionist |
| Kelly | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
| 50 Greatest Magic Tricks | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Derren Brown: Mind Control | 2000 | TV Series documentary | Host / Illusionist |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Flynn | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Magic Show Story | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| E-penser | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Almost Famous III | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Big Fat Quiz of the Year | 2010 | TV Special | Himself (uncredited) |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | BAFTA TV Award | BAFTA Awards | Best Entertainment (Programme or Series) | Derren Brown: The Experiments (2011) |
| 2012 | RTS Television Award | Royal Television Society, UK | Best Entertainment | Derren Brown: The Experiments (2011) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Lew Grade Award | BAFTA Awards | Derren Brown: The Heist (2006) | |
| 2006 | RTS Television Award | Royal Television Society, UK | Best Entertainment | Derren Brown: The Heist (2006) |