Greg Wise
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Greg Wise is an English
actor
and producer. He has appeared in many British television works, as well as several feature films (notably the role of John Willoughby
in Sense and Sensibility).
parents in Newcastle upon Tyne
, Northumberland
, England
was educated at the independent St Peter's School, York
. He went to Heriot Watt university to study architecture. Greg then moved to Glasgow
where he studied drama at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
. He then travelled in the Far East
.
period dramas: The Moonstone
with Keeley Hawes
, Madame Bovary
with Frances O'Connor
and as Sir Charles Maulver in the 2007 five-part series Cranford
. In 1999 he starred as Marshall in ITV
's seven-part drama Wonderful You
alongside his future mother-in-law Phyllida Law
and future brother-in-law Richard Lumsden
.
Recently he filmed a number of readings of love scenes from a selection of classic and modern love scenes, from Thomas Hardy
's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
to Kiran Desai
's The Inheritance of Loss
for The Carte Noire Readers. In 2011, he appeared in Hallmark Channel's Honeymoon for One, starring Nicollette Sheridan
.
He is also the producer of the 2010 BBC/Masterpiece production The Song of Lunch
starring his wife, actress Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman
.
, who played Elinor in Sense and Sensibility, since 2003. They have a daughter, Gaia Romilly (born in 1999) and a Rwandan son named Tindyebwa Agaba (informally adopted in 2003 at the age of 16).
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and producer. He has appeared in many British television works, as well as several feature films (notably the role of John Willoughby
John Willoughby
John Willoughby is a fictional character in Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. He is described as a handsome young single man with a small estate, but has expectations of inheriting his aunt's large estate.-First Appearance:...
in Sense and Sensibility).
Early life
He was born Matthew Gregory Wise to architectArchitect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
parents in Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Historically a part of Northumberland, it is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne...
, Northumberland
Northumberland
Northumberland is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in North East England. For Eurostat purposes Northumberland is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "Northumberland and Tyne and Wear" NUTS 2 region...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
was educated at the independent St Peter's School, York
St Peter's School, York
St Peter's School is a co-educational independent boarding and day school located in the English City of York, with extensive grounds on the banks of the River Ouse...
. He went to Heriot Watt university to study architecture. Greg then moved to Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
where he studied drama at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a conservatoire of music, drama, and dance in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Educational Association, it is the busiest performing arts venue in Scotland...
. He then travelled in the Far East
Far East
The Far East is an English term mostly describing East Asia and Southeast Asia, with South Asia sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons.The term came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 19th century,...
.
Career
His television work includes three BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
period dramas: The Moonstone
The Moonstone
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The story was originally serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are considered Wilkie...
with Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes is an English actress and model, known for many television roles. She is best known for her roles as Zoe Reynolds in Spooks and Alex Drake in Ashes to Ashes and Lady Agnes in the remake of Upstairs, Downstairs...
, Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered his masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life...
with Frances O'Connor
Frances O'Connor
-Background:O'Connor was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England to a pianist mother and nuclear physicist father. When O'Connor was two, her family moved back to Perth, Western Australia. O'Connor was raised a Roman Catholic and attended the Mercedes College in Perth...
and as Sir Charles Maulver in the 2007 five-part series Cranford
Cranford (TV series)
Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was adapted from three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858: Cranford, My Lady Ludlow, and Mr Harrison's Confessions...
. In 1999 he starred as Marshall in ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
's seven-part drama Wonderful You
Wonderful You
Wonderful You is a British drama television series made by Hartswood Films for the ITV network in 1999. The series was shown at 10 pm, after ITN moved their main evening newscast away from this traditional slot. It plots the lives of a group of people in their early thirties...
alongside his future mother-in-law Phyllida Law
Phyllida Law
-Personal life:Law was born in Glasgow, the daughter of William and Megsie Law, who divorced after World War II. She was married to Eric Thompson from 1957 until his death in 1982. Their two children Emma and Sophie Thompson are both actresses...
and future brother-in-law Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden
Richard James Lumsden is a British actor, writer, composer and musician. He played Nathan in Channel 4's drama Sugar Rush and on radio he plays Ray in Clare in the Community.-Career:...
.
Recently he filmed a number of readings of love scenes from a selection of classic and modern love scenes, from Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d'Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British...
to Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award...
's The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai. It was first published in 2006. It won a number of awards, including the Man Booker Prize for that year, the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007, and the 2006 Vodafone Crossword Book Award.It was written over a...
for The Carte Noire Readers. In 2011, he appeared in Hallmark Channel's Honeymoon for One, starring Nicollette Sheridan
Nicollette Sheridan
Nicollette Sheridan is an English film and television actress. She is best known for her roles as Edie Britt on Desperate Housewives and as Paige Matheson on Knots Landing.-Early life:...
.
He is also the producer of the 2010 BBC/Masterpiece production The Song of Lunch
The Song of Lunch
The Song of Lunch is a 2010 television adaptation of Christopher Reid's poem of the same name., 30 June 2010 It was directed by Niall MacCormick and stars Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson...
starring his wife, actress Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an English actor and theatre director. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
.
Personal life
He has been married to Emma ThompsonEmma Thompson
Emma Thompson is a British actress, comedian and screenwriter. Her first major film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy The Tall Guy. In 1992, Thompson won multiple acting awards, including an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the British drama Howards End...
, who played Elinor in Sense and Sensibility, since 2003. They have a daughter, Gaia Romilly (born in 1999) and a Rwandan son named Tindyebwa Agaba (informally adopted in 2003 at the age of 16).
Filmography
- Honeymoon for One (2011 TV movie) - "Sean"
- Morris: A Life with Bells OnMorris: A Life with Bells OnMorris: A Life with Bells On is a 2009 British independent film, a comic spoof documentary about morris dancing.-Development:Morris: A Life with Bells On was written by Charles Thomas Oldham , who also co-produced it with his wife, the film's director Lucy Akhurst...
- The Disappeared (2009)
- CranfordCranford (TV series)Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was adapted from three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858: Cranford, My Lady Ludlow, and Mr Harrison's Confessions...
(2009 TV Series)- Sir Charles Maulver - A Place Of ExecutionA Place of ExecutionA Place of Execution is an acclaimed crime novel by Val McDermid, often cited as her magnum opus, first published in 1999. The novel won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 2001 Dilys Award, was shortlisted for both the Gold Dagger and the Edgar Award, and was chosen by the New York Times as one...
(2008 TV Movie) - Elizabeth David: A Life in RecipesElizabeth David: A Life in RecipesElizabeth David: A Life in Recipes is a 2006 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British cookery writer Elizabeth David....
(2006 TV movie) - Peter Higgins - Trial & Retribution X: Sins of the Father (2006 TV movie) - John Harrogate
- A Cock and Bull StoryA Cock and Bull StoryA Cock and Bull Story is a 2006 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom...
(2005) - Greg - The Adventures of Greyfriars BobbyThe Adventures of Greyfriars BobbyThe Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby is a family-based Scottish film released in the USA in 2005 and the UK in 2006, and directed by John Henderson. It is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, and tells the story of a West Highland White Terrier called Bobby, who will not leave his master's grave after his...
(2005) - Minister Lee - According to BexAccording to BexAccording to Bex is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 2005. Starring Jessica Stevenson, it was written by Katie Douglas, Julia Barron and Fred Barron, who also created My Family and After You've Gone...
(2005 TV series) - Charles Mathers - Every Seven Years (2004 short) - Boyfriend
- Five Moons Plaza (2003) - Francesco Doni
- Johnny EnglishJohnny EnglishJohnny English is a 2003 British action comedy film parodying the James Bond secret agent genre. The film stars Rowan Atkinson as the incompetent titular English spy, with John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia, Tim Pigott-Smith and Ben Miller in supporting roles...
(2003) - Agent One - HornblowerHornblower (TV series)Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars....
, LoyaltyLoyaltyLoyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a person, country, group, or cause There are many aspects to...
episode. (2003 TV movie) - Major Côtard - Sirens (2002 TV movie) - Oliver Rice
- Hills Like White ElephantsHills Like White Elephants"Hills Like White Elephants" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in the 1927 collection Men Without Women.-Plot summary:...
(2002 short) - The American - The Discovery of HeavenThe Discovery of HeavenThe Discovery of Heaven is a 1992 novel by Dutch author Harry Mulisch. It describes the intense friendship between two men and the mystical journey of another to return to Heaven the stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments....
(2001) - Max Delius - Madame Bovary (2000 TV movie) - Rodolphe (episodes 2, 3)
- Mad Cows (1999) - Alex
- Wonderful YouWonderful YouWonderful You is a British drama television series made by Hartswood Films for the ITV network in 1999. The series was shown at 10 pm, after ITN moved their main evening newscast away from this traditional slot. It plots the lives of a group of people in their early thirties...
(1999 TV mini-series) - Marshall, chartered accountant - AfricaAfrica (film)Africa is a 1930 Walter Lantz cartoon short featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It shouldn't be confused with Africa Before Dark which is an older Oswald cartoon that disappeared from public eye.-Plot:...
(1999) - Josh Sinclair - Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998 TV movie) - Red Knight
- Judas KissJudas KissJudas Kiss is a 1998 American crime thriller film. It was directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, produced by Elaine Dysinger and Carla Gugino and the screenplay was by Deanna Fuller and Sebastian Gutierrez....
(1998) - Ben Dyson - House of Frankenstein 1997House of Frankenstein 1997House of Frankenstein 1997 is a television mini-series that revives Universal's classic threesome, the vampire , Frankenstein's monster and the werewolf...
(1997 TV movie) - Crispian Grimes - Hospital! (1997 TV movie) - Dr. Jim Nightingale
- The Place of the DeadThe Place Of The DeadThe Place Of The Dead is a 1997 television movie directed by Suri Krishnamma and written by Jeff Pope. It is a 'true story' account of a British Army expedition in Malaysia that made headlines in 1994 when it went badly wrong...
(1997 TV movie) - Corporal Hugh Brittan - Tales from the CryptTales from the Crypt (TV series)Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series that ran from 1989 to 1996 on the premium cable channel HBO...
(TV series)- Fatal Caper (1996)
- The MoonstoneThe MoonstoneThe Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The story was originally serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are considered Wilkie...
(1996 TV movie) - Franklin Blake - Sense and Sensibility (1995) - John WilloughbyJohn WilloughbyJohn Willoughby is a fictional character in Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. He is described as a handsome young single man with a small estate, but has expectations of inheriting his aunt's large estate.-First Appearance:...
- The BuccaneersThe BuccaneersThe Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937, and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy inviting Nan to a house party to which Guy Thwarte has been invited too...
(1995 TV mini-series) - Guy Thwaite - Feast of JulyFeast of JulyFeast of July is a 1995 UK film produced by Merchant Ivory Productions, based on the novel by H. E. Bates, starring Embeth Davidtz and Ben Chaplin.-Plot:...
(1995) - Arch Wilson - TaggartTaggartTaggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...
(TV series)- Hellfire (1994) - Gregg Martin
- The Riff Raff ElementThe Riff Raff ElementThe Riff Raff Element was a 1990s British television series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock, who also directed Dressing for Breakfast and episodes of The Bill and Bergerac....
(1993 TV series) - Alister - Typhon's People (1993 TV movie) - Cato Macgill/Adam Prime
- Covington CrossCovington CrossCovington Cross is a British/American television series that was broadcast on ABC in the United States from August 25 to October 31, 1992. It also aired in the UK, and was dubbed for broadcast in France....
(TV series)- Pilot (1992) - Henry of Gault
- A Masculine EndingA Masculine EndingA Masculine Ending is a novel by Joan Smith. It was first published in 1987 by British firm Faber and Faber.-1992 Television Adaptation :The story was adapted for television in 1992...
(1992 TV movie) - Jamie Baird - The Song of LunchThe Song of LunchThe Song of Lunch is a 2010 television adaptation of Christopher Reid's poem of the same name., 30 June 2010 It was directed by Niall MacCormick and stars Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson...
(2010 TV movie) - Producer