Patrick Brammall is “blandly handsome and on the comfy side of fit”, or so said The New York Times in a 2018 article about the Australian actor. Then I read that bit, and I’m like, ‘Mate, you didn’t need to write this. What are you doing?’” he laughs.
It’s now eight years later, and Brammall is fresh off his role playing Anne Hathaway’s love interest in The Devil Wears Prada 2. Suffice it to say, there are no hard feelings. In fact, “blandly handsome” was his Twitter bio for years.
At 50, Brammall is used to mining his life for laughs. He knows everything, even the most cutting backhanded compliment, makes for great material. It’s why he brings that quote up today, and it’s certainly one of many reasons why his breakout hit Colin from Accounts – a charming, ribald comedy inspired, in part, by his relationship with his wife, co-star and co-creator Harriet Dyer – is so brilliant.
But we have to do it.” Due to air its third and final season in the UK this month, Colin began back in 2022 with a flash, literally. Gordon (Brammall) is driving through Sydney when he locks eyes with Ashley (Dyer) who, crossing the street, flashes him a smile and a breast. Gordon is so distracted by the sexy surprise that he hits a dog – a calamity that brings these two strangers together in hilarious and oddly affecting ways.
That Gordon is 12 years older than Ashley is a comic gift on telly and in real life, such as when a fan mistook Brammall for Dyer’s dad. His latest project sees him pulling from his life in less joyful ways. Out next week on Apple TV, Last Seen casts Brammall in a very different light.
He plays Ian Ridley, a grizzled ex-police officer struggling to cope after the abduction of his three-year-old daughter, 11 years earlier. When Ian, now working as an emergency phone operator, receives a call from a girl he believes to be his missing child, he sets out on a mission to uncover the truth. No doubt, Brammall says, being a father fed into his performance.
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