Ian Champion

Ian Champion is a British actor of screen, video-game and stage work. He trained in Theatre at East 15, TV Acting Technique (A.L.R.A) and most recently performance-capture training (Audiomotion Studios).His first TV appearance was as Lady Tara's upper-class old flame Piers Brunswick in Emmerdale in 1998, a show in which he's since played four other characters across a further seven episodes. Subsequently, his other TV parts include a hard-bargaining land-owner opposite Bill Maynard's Greengrass in Heartbeat, the divorce solicitor defending Amanda Redman's Mrs Braithwaite in At Home With The Braithwates, the Maitre D' speaking the very last line ever recorded in ITV's hugely-popular Cold Feet, Kirk's Bank Manager in Coronation Street, the TV Reporter to camera in the chillingly accurate TV movie See No Evil: The Moors Murders and a hospital consultant delivering grave news to Bernard Hill and Ann Reid in the BBC drama Five Days 2. His theatre work includes Stalingrad at Sheffield Crucible Studio.In 2010 Ian added a sideline as a voice-artist, racking up over 1500 credits since then such as the troubled boyfriend to Michelle Holmes in BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play 'Eclipse' in 2011, delivering the award nominations for Mikhail Gorbachev's 80th Birthday night at the Royal Albert Hall, hundreds of corporate, commercial and educational voice-overs for global brands and his passion, that of video game roles, like the shady Russian island-owner Kovac in the highly-successful zombie survival-horror games 'How To Survive 1 + 2' (XBOX One/PS4), the warrior leader Dreadnaught Edward Portsmith in Age of Wonders III (PC) and more. Show less «