Paterson Davis Joseph (born 22 June 1964) is an English actor and author. Joseph began his career in the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) productions of King Lear and Love's Labour's Lost (1990). On television, he is known for his roles in the BBC One series Casualty (1997–1998) and Survivors (2008–2010); the Channel 4 series Peep Show (2003–2015) and Green Wing (2004–2006); the ITV series Boy Meets Girl (2009), Law & Order: UK (2013–2014) and Safe House (2015–2017); the HBO series The Leftovers (2014–2015); and the NBC series Timeless (2016–2018). Vigil (BBC One 2021-2023) His films include The Beach (2000), Greenfingers (2000), Æon Flux (2005), The Other Man (2008) and Wonka (2023). Joseph is also a writer. His debut novel The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (2022) won the 2023 Christopher Bland Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature. He was announced as Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University in October 2022. (Via Wikipedia)