Paterson Joseph, 61, is a British actor and writer, who has starred on the big screen in The Beach , Æon Flux and Wonka , and on TV in Green Wing , Cold Feet , and as fan-favourite Alan Johnson in all nine series of Peep Show . Born in North West London to St Lucian parents as the fifth youngest of six, he has also gone on to become a successful writer: his 2022 debut novel, The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho , won awards from the Royal Society of Literature, and his first children’s book, Ten Children Who Changed The World , was published this September.

Here he looks back at the moments that changed him, from bunking off school to read literature, to working as a chef, turning 60, and being recognised by fans of Peep Show old and new.

I was born in Park Roy

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