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Colin from Accounts stars Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer are a real-life couple (Picture: BBC/ CBS Studios /Paramount Plus/ Joel Pratley)

One of the most loved shows on TV at the moment was not only created by a real-life couple but stars them as well.

The Australian series Colin from Accounts was created and written by husband-and-wife duo Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, who play the show’s main characters, Gordon and Ashley.

Set in Sydney, it follows the pair who are brought together after Ashley flashes her boobs to Gordon while crossing a road, the distraction of which causes him to hit a dog, who they then call Colin. 

The second season was released by the BBC in the UK this week, with fans already praising the new batch of episodes after racing to watch them.

The series also boasts an impressive 100% rating on review site Rotten Tomatoes.

After each making their names in other beloved series’, here’s everything we know about the couple’s careers and details of their private lives away from screens.

How did Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer meet?

Patrick, 48, and Harriet, 35, met in 2015 while filming the TV series No Activity, a detective comedy that ran for two seasons.

They met while working on the series No Activity in 2015 (Picture: Empics Entertainment)

They have each starred in a string of hit Australian shows (Picture: Ken McKay/ ITV/ Rex/ Shutterstock)

He played Detective Hendy, an ambitious detective keen to restore his reputation after a disastrous drug bust, while Harriet played April, a young police officer on dispatch duty waiting for reinstatement into active duty after she tasered a man to death because he did not listen or take her seriously.

Two years after meeting, Harriet moved to the United States where Patrick was living.

‘I think you want to be close to the person you’re with,’ she told Confidential at the time.

‘I think it was a natural thing anyway, I’d probably do it even if he was still here…it’s not a follow-the-leader situation.’

What TV shows and movies have they starred in?

Patrick’s break-out role was in the 2004 drama The Alice, going on to appear in shows including A Moody Christmas, Offspring and Glitch.  

They also both appeared in the show A Moody Christmas (Picture: Brendon Thorne/ Getty Images for AFI)

He also previously appeared in Home and Away, All Saints and Upper Middle Bogan, as well as voicing the character of Uncle Radley in Bluey.

Meanwhile Harriet’s first major screen role was in the drama series Love Child, in which she played a young unwed pregnant woman in 1960s Sydney.

She also appeared in an episode of A Moody Christmas, as well as in the series Packed to the Rafters.

Other notable roles have been in Janet King, Rake, The Other Guy and Wakefield.

When did they get married?

In 2021, the couple got married while on vacation in Tampa, Florida, just five days after Patrick proposed.

The couple were married five days after getting engaged in 2021 (Picture: Patrick Brammall/ Instagram)

He shared the news on Instagram, writing: Things to do in Tampa in March. 1. Catch a sunrise, 2. Propose to girlfriend, 3. Get married five days later.’

Do they have children?

Five months after their wedding, the couple welcomed daughter Joni Jane Brooklyn Brammall, who they adopted through a US agency.

They share daughter Joni (Picture: Patrick Brammall/ Instagram)

They adopted their daughter after moving to the US a few years earlier (Picture: Patrick Brammall/ Instagram)

‘International Daughter’s Day feels as good a time as any to introduce our little Joni Jane Brooklyn Brammall,’ Harriet posted on social media at the time.

‘Born September 16, 2021, and with us from her first moments thanks to her incredible birth mother.’

The couple, who largely avoid sharing photos of their daughter’s face publicly, do post photos with Joni on social media, most recently including sweet pics with her grandparents, swimming at the beach and during her birthday celebrations.

What have they said about working together on Colin from Accounts?

The pair have created, produced and starred in Colin from Accounts, with Harriet recently joking she’s likely suffering from Stockholm syndrome due to spending so much time with her partner.

They’ve spoken about wanting to ‘protect’ their relationship while also working together (Picture: BBC/ Paramount Plus/ CBS Studios Inc., Easy Tiger Productions Pty Ltd, Foxtel Management Pty Ltd, Create NSW/ Lisa Tomasetti)

But she added: ‘We still laugh a lot, and we are also learning to protect our relationship.’

‘We want to make good television, but we are learning to put up some boundaries because in the middle of this is our love and … our union … and we can’t keep shopping that out for the sake of a good TV show,’ she told Marie Claire.

Who else is in the cast?

The series also stars Emma Harvie as Megan, Helen Thomson as Lynelle, Genevieve Hegney as Chiara, Michael Logo as Brett, Tai Hara as James, Annie Maynard as Yvette and Darren Gilshenan as Lee.

How to watch Colin from Accounts?

Both seasons of Colin from Accounts are streaming on BBC iPlayer.

Speaking to Marie Claire recently, Harriet explained why she thought the show had been such a runaway hit here too.

‘I think [the Brits] were able to laugh at these rambunctious little Australians doing crazy things as, like, their weird cousin Down Under,’ she said.

‘There was a warmth that they felt seeing the show and I think we were just similar enough in terms of our sensibilities and just fresh enough as in something different.’

Colin from Accounts is streaming on BBC iPlayer.

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