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Fairbrass was born in Mile End, East London.
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Craig Fairbrass
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He made his acting debut in the feature film Foreign Queen and Country opposite Denzel Washington. He also appeared in an episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation television series Big Deal in the episode "Fighting Chance" in 1980. This was followed by appearances such as Gary "Technique" Pagnall in the Independent Television drama series London"s Burning between 1990 and 1991 and as Detective Frank Burkin in Prime Suspect 1 and 2.
He has also appeared in Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone and The Bank Job with Jason Statham.
Fairbrass appeared as Dan Sullivan in EastEnders from 1999 to 2001. He also took the lead role of Ray Betson in the Channel Four crime drama The Great Dome Robbery.
Soon afterwards Fairbrass returned to the United States, and he starred as Henry Caine in White Noise 2: The Light. In February 2007 he appeared as the renegade Jaffa, Arkad, in the episode "Talion" in the final season of Stargate SG-1.
Guest star roles followed in The Unit and The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
In 2007, he starred in the feature film Rise of the Footsoldier. He also voiced "Gaz" in the videogame Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007), Ghost in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and Sergeant Wallcroft in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
In March 2008, he appeared in the United States television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
He starred in the vampire film Dead Certificate alongside Billy Murray. Billy Murray has been his co-star in Rise of the Footsoldier, Freight and Just Foreign The Record.
He played the role of a mercenary Cole opposite Danny Dyer and Jaime Murray in the zombie action film Devil"s Playground. In 2011 Fairbrass took the co-lead in the crime thriller Street Georges Day, lead roles in Vikingdom 3D, House Of The Rising Sun, Hijacked and Get Lucky.
In 2012 Fairbrass took his first lead role in the United States action thriller The Outsider, co-starring with Jason Patric, James Caan and Shannon Elizabeth.
In 2014 he appeared in the thriller Breakdown where he appears alongside James Cosmo, Bruce Payne, Emmett Scanlan, Olivia Grant and Tamer Hassan. He also took the lead role of Jack London in the revenge thriller Gunned Down. Fairbrass is married to Elke Kellick, a former Page Three model, and they have two sons together.
