Louis Emerick
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| Born | Louis Emerick 10 June 1960 |
| Years active | 1982 - present |
Louis Emerick, born 10 June 1960, Liverpool, England, UK, is a British TV actor, best known for his portrayal of Mick Johnson in the soap opera Brookside.
He played a police officer in the BBC One series Last of the Summer Wine and had a minor role in the British film Layer Cake. He has made an appearance on BBC's Strictly African Dancing as part of Africa Lives season. He pulled last place.
He is also starring as Mike Bateman in the BBC One hospital series Casualty.
During 2006 Louis' familiar sounding voice could be heard advertising certain products for radio (especially for Manx Radio station "Energy FM").
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[edit] Biography
Louis Emerick was born in the Toxteth area of Liverpool to a white British mother and a Liberian father. He is one of six children.
[edit] Career
He started out his theatrical life acting and singing in amateur productions, in particular being a long time member of Genesis Theatre, who were active from 1974 - 1982 in the Manchester area of the UK. At the time he still had a daytime job. In this theatre group he took lead parts in Hair, Stag, Demolition Man, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Marilyn and others. After the theatre group broke up in 1982 he went on to further his career and subsequently turned professional.
He often performs in several small scale community theatre productions in his hometown of Liverpool. Locals promote these productions by telling people that, 'It has Mick from Brookie in it!'[citation needed]
However, his acclaimed stage performances in productions such as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Liverpool's Playhouse Theatre, 2004) give a true measure of his talent and power as a stage actor.
Louis starred as the evil Abanazar in Aladdin at the Palace Theatre, Mansfield from Saturday 28 November 2009 to 3 January 2010.
[edit] Personal life
In May 1989 Emerick married his first wife Donna, with whom he has two children: Rochelle, born March 1990 and Liam, born June 1992. Emerick and Donna divorced in 1996. In 1997 he met his current wife Angela, with whom he has two children: Aleah, born October 1998 and Jake, born September 2000. He lives in Liscard with his family.
[edit] 60 Minute Makeover
In 2004 Louis appeared in a celebrity edition of 60 Minute Makeover. His house in Wallasey where he had lived for 5 years with wife Lisa and their boys Shaun, 13 and Reece, 7 was made over. Originally shown on ITV1 it has been repeated on Living. This brings into question the accuracy of the information in the Personal life section above.
[edit] Filmography
- The Fruit Machine (1988), a/k/a/ Wonderland (USA), as Billy " charlies anals"
- Layer Cake (2004), as Trevor
- M15 (2011)
