City folk were astounded on Wednesday night to see one of their own lurking behind actor Michael Brandon in a scene from the BBC’s drama about the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Jeff Ross, the managing director of broker dealer Magna Capital, is a part-time actor in his spare time – and also, as fate would have it, formerly worked at Lehman himself.

“I couldn’t believe it when my agent called to ask me if I’d like to take a part as a banker at the Fed, listening to Hank Paulson talking about the death of Lehman Brothers,” Ross told The Capitalist.

“Twelve years ago, I was working at Lehman Brothers when they dumped me unceremoniously, and I ended up writing a letter to Dick Fuld at the time to complain. It’s certainly what you might call ironic…”

What goes around comes around, so they say.

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