Background

Altin was born on February 12, 1983, in London, to a Turkish family. His birth name is Yusuf Altin.

Career

Josef Altin first appeared in a television series as Garry in the drama series Psychos. His first appearance on a major British television series came in 2004 when he played a machine strimmer in Blackpool. Over the years, Altin has appeared on The Bill several times in different roles; from 2006–2007 he played Jay Henderson, and in 2009 he played Peter Balmaine. After his appearance on The Bill he became a somewhat sought after actor and received many more roles over the coming years, performing in both television series and films multiple times a year.

In 2007, Altin appeared in two films, the first of which being Boy A, where he played Bully, and what is perhaps the biggest budget film he has starred in, Eastern Promises, where he played Ekrem.

He has also appeared in other big television series including Peep Show, Doctors, Robin Hood, Casualty, Little Miss Jocelyn, New Tricks, Being Human, Misfits and Law & Order: UK. Altin also plays the role of Pypar, commonly called Pyp, in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.

2015 saw Altin starring in two films Narcopolis and Child 44. In 2016, Altin starred in the short film, 'I Dream of Zombies'.

On television, in 2017 Altin appeared in the E4 sitcom Chewing Gum as Ryan, and portrayed Prince Rasselas, a young molly boy who plies his trade on the streets of Covent Garden, in the Hulu Original Harlots. In 2018, Altin played Willem Van Burgen, a disturbed paedophile suffering from syphilis, who comes from a wealthy family, suspected of being the serial killer of boys in the TNT period drama, The Alienist.

Achievements

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  Josef Altin went down in history with his roles in ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘The Bill’, ‘Peep Show’, ‘Him & Her’, and ‘Casualty’.
  
  

Works

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  • Dirty Pretty Things

    (From Stephen Frears, the Oscar-nominated director of The ...)

    2002
  • Les Miserables

    (Hugh Jackman, Oscar-winner Russell Crowe and Anne Hathawa...)

    2012
  • Redemption

    (Jason Statham stars as a collector for a local mob boss i...)

    2013
  • The Young Victoria

    (Caught in a power struggle with her closest advisors, a y...)

    2009
  • Albatross

    (Seventeen year old force-of-nature EMELIA starts a new jo...)

    2011
  • Eastern Promises

    (A ruthless and mysterious enforcer for a Russian crime fa...)

    2007
  • Hooligan Factory

    (Expelled from school and living in his grandfathers flat,...)

    2014
  • Narcopolis

    (In a near future city where drugs are decriminalized, a c...)

    2015
  • Child 44

    (Exiled secret police officer Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) disc...)

    2015
  • Boy A

    (The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from ser...)

    2007
  • Tomb Raider

    (Lara Croft returns for the ultimate adventure in this exp...)

    2018
  • Comes A Bright Day

    (A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one o...)

    2012
  • Vendetta

    (Vendetta is a hard hitting urban vigilante film set among...)

    2013
  • Esther Kahn

    (A Jewish girl in nineteenth century London, dreams of bec...)

    2000
  • By Any Means

    (Mimi Wyatt, a C-list reality show star, gets kidnapped af...)

    2013
  • A Long Way Down

    (In this touching comedy, four strangers decide to end it ...)

    2014

• TV series

  • Blackpool

    (Soon after local entrepreneur Ripley Holden (Morrissey) o...)

    2004
  • Murphy's Law

    (As a maverick cop with a dark past, DS Tommy Murphy fails...)

    2005
  • Peaky Blinders

    (A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England; c...)

    2016
  • Top Boy

    (A thrilling and raw drama about young lives lived on the ...)

    2019
  • Game of Thrones

    (Nine noble families fight for control over the mythical l...)

    2011
  • Chernobyl

    (This five-part miniseries dramatizes the story of the 198...)

    2019

Personality

Josef Altin loves dogs.

Physical Characteristics: Height - 5ft 5 ¾ (167 cm)

Interests

• Music & Bands

  Favorite song: Rufus & Chaka kahn - Aint nobody

Connections

Josef Altin is not married.

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