Brian Atkinson

Brian Atkinson is an American character actor known for his title role in Netflix' Emmy nominated Buddy Thunderstruck (2017) and as officer Randy, opposite Academy Award winner Rami Malek in Endeavor Audio's dramatic podcast Blackout (2019). The actor was born Brian Allen on June 20th 1978 in Stoughton, Massachusetts, a small town just south of Boston. He took his mother's maiden name Atkinson shortly before his marriage to talented actress & musician Alex G-Smith. Starting out in community theater musicals, he earned an EMACT for his first stage appearance as Jammal in The Stoughton Little Theater's production of Aladdin. Atkinson became unrecognizable for his big screen debut as belligerent wanna-be gangster Mickey McQueeney in Flood Reed's award winning independent feature Mutual Admiration Society (2002). He would later rejoin Reed as Gudrun in Slew Hampshire (2013). In 2003, Brian moved to a small New York studio with writer/producer Rock Shaink to appear in several regional st