 Doc Brown was born Ben Bailey Smith, son of a Jamaican immigrant, Yvonne Bailey, and an Englishman, Harvey Smith, who was 30 years his wife's senior.Raised in the Willesden area of north-west London, Smith is the younger brother of novelist and essayist Zadie Smith.Smith attended Hampstead School and Malorees Junior School along with his sister, and was often seen in her shadow.