Joplin Sibtain

Joplin Sibtain, sometimes credited professionally as Chook Sibtain, is a British actor known for the Netflix series Safe, his seasons at the National Theatre and as Tarak Ital on the Doctor Who special, "The Waters of Mars". He voiced Olin in Horizon Zero Dawn. He won best actor at the New York Movie awards for the title role in Memory Man, and starred as Brasso in the Star Wars television series Andor.

Biography Sibtain was born in Waltham Forest, London in 1969 to an English mother Mary, who named him after Janis Joplin, and an Arab father. The couple separated when Sibtain was young, and subsequently he was raised by his mother.

Sibtain won a scholarship and attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He has performed in theatres including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. In the 1990s he played the role of the masked troubadour, who made himself appear in the idents and the commercial bumpers of the Swiss Italian-language television channel TSI produced by Lambie-Nairn. He is known for playing various film and television roles including Mickey, opposite Nick Nolte in Head Full Of Honey, Neil Chahal in the Netflix series Safe and Tarak Ital in Doctor Who.

Furthermore, Sibtain has been cast in roles such as Brasso in Andor and Jon Roxton in House of the Dragon.

Selected filmography Film Year Film Role Notes 2000 The Stretch Richard Asher as Chook Sibtain 2012 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Alpha Robert "Pepper" Bonifacio as Chook SibtainShort film 2018 Head Full of Honey Mickey 2022 I Used to Be Famous Dave 2025 The Strangers – Chapter 2 Billy Bufford Television Year Title Role Notes 2000 EastEnders Jack Robbins 15 episodesas Chook Sibtain 2002 Bad Girls Naj Khan Din as Chook SibtainEpisode: "Curtain Call" 2002–2008 Doctors Matt Brown & 3 other characters 10 episodesas Chook Sibtain 2003 Grease Monkeys Deep as Chook SibtainEpisode: "Grease Monkeys"2005 Footballers' Wives Surjit as Chook SibtainEpisode: "Episode #4.5" Where the Heart Is Gary as Chook SibtainEpisode: "Together" 2006 The Bill Chris Dalton as Chook SibtainEpisode: "413: Up Against the Wall" Holby City Eddie McGuire 2 episodesas Chook Sibtain 2007 The Sarah Jane Adventures Mark Grantham 2 episodesas Chook Sibtain 2009 Robin Hood Isabella's Guard as Chook SibtainEpisode: "The Enemy of My Enemy" Doctor Who Tarak Ital as Chook SibtainEpisode: "The Waters of Mars" 2011 Hustle Lloyd/Danush Larijani as Chook SibtainEpisode: "Benny's Funeral" 2018 Vera Naz Ahmed Episode: "Blood and Bone" Marcella Nick Episode: "Episode #2.1" Hard Sun DS Herbie Sarafian Video games Year Title Role Notes 2017 Horizon Zero Dawn Olin as Chook SibtainVoice Star Wars Battlefront II as Chook SibtainVoice 2021 Necromunda: Hired Gun The Shadow / Orlocks Voice The Ascent stackBoss Poone Voice 2022 Triangle Strategy Sorsley Voice Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Voice A Plague Tale: Requiem Milo Voice