Derren Brown

Magician

Derren Brown was born in Purley, England, United Kingdom on February 27th, 1971 and is the Magician. At the age of 53, Derren Brown biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Derren Victor Brown
Date of Birth
February 27, 1971
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Purley, England, United Kingdom
Age
53 years old
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Networth
$7.5 Million
Profession
Actor, Artist, Film Producer, Hypnotist, Magician, Painter, Screenwriter, Television Presenter, Writer
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Derren Brown Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 53 years old, Derren Brown has this physical status:

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175cm
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Derren Brown Career

Brown cites magician and comedian Jerry Sadowitz, whom he met at the International Magic shop in Clerkenwell, London, as being instrumental in his rise to stardom. Sadowitz put him in touch with H&R publishers and Objective Productions, a production company founded by television magician Andrew O'Connor. This gave him his breakthrough show, Mind Control (2000), and his work went on to become their first award-winning product. After several further shows with Objective, Brown set up his own company Vaudeville Productions with former Objective executives Michael Vine, Andrew O’Connor, and Paul Sandler, in order to produce his own shows as well as other projects with other performers. Its first show was Brown's TV special, Pushed to the Edge.

In 2008, Brown made a brief cameo in the supernatural drama series Crooked House. An interview with Brown was featured in Richard Dawkins' 2009 two-part documentary series The Enemies of Reason. Brown explained various psychological techniques used by purported psychics and spiritual mediums to manipulate their audiences. The most notable was cold reading, a technique which he discusses extensively in his book Tricks of the Mind. Some video footage was also used from his TV special Messiah. As part of Channel 4's 3D season in 2009, Brown presented Derren Brown's 3D Magic Spectacular. The show was not a new special from Brown; instead, he was the presenter for a number of other magicians and clips that were shown. However, he did include one extract taken from a 2006 episode of Trick of the Mind in which he found an object that had been hidden in the streets of Venice by a volunteer.

In January 2011, to celebrate 10 years since his first television appearance, Channel 4 held a special "Derren Brown Night". As well as re-showing The Heist (which had won a recent poll of favourite Brown specials) and one of his Enigma live shows, the channel screened a special documentary called Derren Brown: Behind the Mischief. It was a personal and candid film about Brown which included the story of how he met his co-writer (who was featured in Seance), his mother's feelings about his involvement in the Russian Roulette special, and an emotional visit back to his old school, university, and bars/pubs where he first began his career. Celebrity contributors included Matt Lucas, Jo Whiley, Stephen Merchant, and Simon Pegg. In January 2013, he was featured in a Channel 4 Deal or No Deal special, where he appeared to have predicted all the correct boxes to win the big jackpot of £250,000. That same year, he appeared in a comedy sketch at the beginning of an 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Deal or No Deal special.

In January 2014, Brown appeared as himself in the Sherlock episode "The Empty Hearse", as part of a theory regarding how the title character faked his own death. On 9 November 2018, he appeared as a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience to promote his Netflix special Sacrifice.

In February 2021, Brown appeared in a trailer for the horror video game Little Nightmares II, in which he discussed the nature of nightmares while some of the monsters featured in the game appeared around him.

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The 'Nigerian scammers' father, who died after a Snapchat nude photo'sextortion,' may have pretended to be his online girlfriend before blackmailing him

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 10, 2024
According to his father, a 16-year-old private schoolboy who died after being pounded by a Snapchat nudes'sextortion' scheme may have been harmed by Nigerian scammers posing as his online girlfriend. Dinal De Alwas, a Keen footballer and rugby player who had aspired to study at Cambridge, died in October 2022 after cybercriminals blackmailed him. The boy, a student at Whitgift School in Croydon, was sent two photos of himself and was told that if he paid £100, they would be sent to 'all his online' followers,' but instead he left his family home and made a short video announcing that he wanted to kill himself. According to his heartbroken father, Kaushallya De Alwis, police are essentially powerless to locate the perpetrators of the scam, especially because they live in Nigeria and suspect they may have attacked him by faking being a woman. The 52-year-old, who previously paid tribute to his 'golden boy,' said the family had no idea' something was wrong with Dinal in the days leading up to his tragic death, and warned teenage boys not to post photographs of themselves online or they might be branded like his son.

As his deceased father reveals how he sent a goodbye video to the family and told his brothers,'look after mum and dad."

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 25, 2024
Dinal De Alwis, a 16-year-old Keen footballer and rugby player, had earned a clean sheet of A* GCSEs and just started his sixth form with the intention of studying at Cambridge when someone, apparently from Nigeria, called him on Snapchat. He was sent two photographs of himself and was informed that if he paid £100, they would be sent to 'all his online followers.' Rather, he took his family home and shot a short video saying he wanted to kill himself. Kaushallya De Alwis, his devoted father, mourned the 'golden child,' he still mourns about in the present tense, told the Daily Mail that he did not want any other family to suffer as they did. "He called my wife and I to tell us that he loves us, and he told their two brothers that he loves them and that they should "look after mum and dad," Mr De Alwis said on the night his son disappeared.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: 'Speed demon' and former Strictly judge Dame Darcey Bussell reveals she went on speed awareness course after breaking 20mph limit

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 24, 2023
When she gets behind the wheel, Dame Darcey Bussell, known for her graceful appearances as a principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, is a speed demon. After being caught speeding the speed limit, the former Strictly Come Dancing judge has confessed to carrying out a fine. Dame Darcey, 54, explains, 'I did a speed awareness course.' 'It was in a 20-mph zone, so I wasn't doing 120 miles per hour or something.'
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