Keith Warwick
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Keith Warwick is a Scottish actor and musician. He is best known for the role of Trent Clements in the Royal Television Society
award-winning series My Parents Are Aliens
.
, in the Southside of Glasgow
. In his last year at Govan High School, Keith joined STG (Strathclyde University Theatre Group) performing in The Government Inspector by Gogol. As a musician he has toured Japan and Europe with The Kaisers and combined his love for acting and music when he formed The Scottish Sex Pistols, playing the part of Johnny Rotten. The band teamed up with John Lydon
to promote the release of Kiss This
.
, a Scottish situational drama; as Ben Capstone in The Bill
and as Trent Clements in six series of My Parents Are Aliens
. He recently played Donald Dee in Robin Hardy
's follow up to Wicker Man
, The Wicker Tree
with Sir Christopher Lee, due for release in 2011.
; and performing in and producing the anti-bigotry drama Damaged Goods by Martin McCardie at the Tron Theatre
. He has also performed in ten commercial pantomime productions, in which he portrays the 'Wishee Washee'/'Buttons' characters.
Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...
award-winning series My Parents Are Aliens
My Parents are Aliens
My Parents are Aliens is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television and later Granada Productions for CITV about an eccentric family, which was produced as seven annual series, first broadcast in 1999 and ending in 2006...
.
Early career
Keith was born in GovanGovan
Govan is a district and former burgh now part of southwest City of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated west of Glasgow city centre, on the south bank of the River Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Kelvin and the district of Partick....
, in the Southside of 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...
. In his last year at Govan High School, Keith joined STG (Strathclyde University Theatre Group) performing in The Government Inspector by Gogol. As a musician he has toured Japan and Europe with The Kaisers and combined his love for acting and music when he formed The Scottish Sex Pistols, playing the part of Johnny Rotten. The band teamed up with John Lydon
John Lydon
John Joseph Lydon , also known by the former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer-songwriter and television presenter, best known as the lead singer of punk rock band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s...
to promote the release of Kiss This
Kiss This
Kiss This is a "best of" compilation by the Sex Pistols released in 1992, which features all of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols album tracks, interspersed with singles and B-sides.The tracks are split into three phases:...
.
TV & Film
TV roles include two series as Cockney bad boy Nigel Jenkins in High RoadHigh Road
High Road may refer to:* High Road, Perth* Take the High Road, a soap opera later renamed to High Road* John Gunther's High Road, a weekly TV series on tABC hosted by author John Gunther...
, a Scottish situational drama; as Ben Capstone in The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
and as Trent Clements in six series of My Parents Are Aliens
My Parents are Aliens
My Parents are Aliens is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television and later Granada Productions for CITV about an eccentric family, which was produced as seven annual series, first broadcast in 1999 and ending in 2006...
. He recently played Donald Dee in Robin Hardy
Robin Hardy
Robin Moore Hardy is the author of more than twenty published books and several unpublished manuscripts. She currently resides in North Texas. Her first novel, Chataine's Guardian, was the runner-up for the Gold Medallion Book Award in 1985....
's follow up to Wicker Man
Wicker Man
A wicker man was a large wicker statue of a human used by the ancient Druids for human sacrifice by burning it in effigy, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico...
, The Wicker Tree
The Wicker Tree
The Wicker Tree is a 2011 film by British director Robin Hardy. The film contains several similar elements to the 1973 film The Wicker Man which was also directed by Hardy, but is neither a sequel nor a remake of that film...
with Sir Christopher Lee, due for release in 2011.
Theatre
Keith has worked in Scottish theatre within a variety of genre's including Shakespeare - as Feste in Twelfth Night; as Puck in A Midsummer Night's DreamA Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
; and performing in and producing the anti-bigotry drama Damaged Goods by Martin McCardie at the Tron Theatre
Tron Theatre
The Tron Theatre is located at the corner of Trongate and Chisholm Street, in the Merchant City area of Glasgow, Scotland.From its early years as a theatre club, the Tron has grown into a thriving multi-faceted venue...
. He has also performed in ten commercial pantomime productions, in which he portrays the 'Wishee Washee'/'Buttons' characters.