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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
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DerrenBrown
Twitter 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)

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