Joe McGann

Joe McGann
Years active	1983–Present

Joe McGann (born 24 July 1958) is an English actor. His most well known role was playing the lead role — Charlie Burrows, the "house keeper" in the TV comedy series The Upper Hand (1990-1996). He is also known as a television reporter on the BBC's South Today programme, reporting on local events in the south of England. He was also a key character in ITV's ill-fated soap Night and Day, who had an affair with the underage main character Jane Harper before her disappearance.

McGann was born in Liverpool, to a metallurgist father and a teacher mother, Claire McGann. His three younger brothers — Paul, Stephen, Mark — are also actors. Together with Stephen and Mark, he starred in Tom, Dick and Harry, a play by Ray and Michael Cooney at the Duke of York's Theatre, in 1995.

Joe starred as Nathan Detroit (alongside Clare Sweeney who played Miss Adelaide) in the UK tour of Guys and Dolls from September 2006 to February 2007.

He recently participated on 16 December 2007 playing one of the three Magi in BBC Three's Nativity; a live performance of the Bible story of Jesus's birth, set in modern day Liverpool. His main solo song was "Lady Madonna", singing to the newly-born Jesus who is lying in a shopping trolley in a pub garage.

Appeared on tour with Fiddler on the Roof playing the paterfamilias, Tevye, in 2008 but left the show 2 months before the tour ended due to an arm injury sustained on stage.

In 2009, he appeared on BBC's Celebrity Masterchef alongside Linda Barker and [[Ninia Benjamin] Joe was a beaten semi-finalist

In May and June 2009, Joe appeared as Richard in "Lost Monsters" by Laurence Wilson at Liverpool Everyman theatre.