Josef Altin

Josef Altin
Born	Yusuf Altın (1983-02-12) 12 February 1983 London, England
Other names	Yousef Altin
Years active	1999–present

Josef Altin (born as Yusuf Altın; 12 February 1983) is an English TV series and film actor who has the role of Pypar in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones. Other notable performances is his role as Ekrem in Eastern Promises and his roles in The Bill, Peep Show and Casualty. He starred in D.C. Moore's hit play The Empire at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

Life and career

Altin was born in London to a Turkish family. His first appearance in a television series was his role as Gary in the drama series Psychos. His first appearance on a major British television series came in 2004 when he played a waiter, over the years, Altin has appeared on The Bill several times in different roles, from 2006–2007, he was 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 for 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 his 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.

Filmography

Film and Television
Year	Film or Series	Role	Notes
1999	Psychos	Garry	Episode #1.5
2000	Esther Kahn	Samuel as a child
2001	My Other Wheelchair Is a Porsche	Ron	Short
2002	Dirty Pretty Things	Sweatshop Boy
2002	Babyfather	Eric's Friend	Episode #2.7
2004	Blackpool	Machine Strimmer	Episode #1.2
2004–2009	The Bill	Multiple Character	Seven episodes
2005	Gypo	Michael
2005	Murphy's Law	Phillip	Ep #3.2
2005	Stoned	Bill Wyman
2005	The Golden Hour	Robert	Episode #1.4
2005	Peep Show	Mugger No. 1	Episode #3.1
2006	Doctors	Liam Aitkin	Episode #7.168
2006	Soundproof	Stee
2006	Robin Hood	Benedict Giddens	Episode #1.1
2006	Pulling	Skinzo	Episode #1.6
2006–2009	Casualty	Multiple Characters	Three episodes
2007	What Goes Around (short)	Cola	Short
2007	Ruby Blue	Frankie
2007	Eastern Promises	Ekrem
2007	Boy A	Bully
2007	The Omid Djalili Show		Episode #1.2
2008	Little Miss Jocelyn	Bully	Episode #2.1 Episode #2.3
2008	West 10 LDN	Ratty
2008	10 Days to War	Young Lad	Episode #1.5
2008	Poppy Shakespeare	Zubin
2008	New Tricks	Steve Pearson	Episode #5.7
2008	God on Trial	Issac
2008	No Heroics	Robber	Episode #1.1
2009	M.I.High	Kranky	Episode #3.1
2009	Tender	Ross	Short
2009	Being Human	Billy	Episode #1.5 Episode #1.6
2009	The Young Victoria	Edward Oxford
2009	Beautiful People	Ricky	Episode #2.4
2009–2011	Misfits	Gary	Episode #1.1 Episode 3.4
2010	The Pizza Miracle	Paesano	Short
2010	Baby	Emit	Short
2010	Law & Order: UK	Ray Cole	Episode #3.2
2010	Reggie Perrin	Young Boss	Episode #2.1
2011	Albatross	Dave
2011–2012	Him & Her	Darren	Episode 2.4 Episode 3.3
2011–2014	Game of Thrones	Pypar	Recurring character, 13 episodes
2012	Comes a Bright Day	Clegg
2012	A Mother's Son	Sean Christie	Episode #1.1 Episode #1.2
2012	Les Misérables	Convict 2
2012	Now Is Good	Jake
2013	Holby City	Alex Jules	S15E33 Back From the Dead
2013	Dreck	Ambro Trader
2013	By Any Means	Jason Turner
2013	Vendetta	Rob
2013	Hummingbird	Pizza Delivery Guy
2014	A Long Way Down	Matty
2014	Child 44	Alexander	Filming
2014	The Hooligan Factory	Weasel
2015	River	Christopher Riley	Episodes 1,2

Music videos

• Jamie T – If You Got The Money 2007
• Javeon - Give Up 2013

External links

• Josef Altin at the Internet Movie Database
• Altin on Twitter
• Altin on Myspace