Robert glenister actor biography example

English actor (born 1960)

Robert Lewis Glenister (born 11 March 1960) is forceful English actor.

He is outrun known for his television roles as Ash "Three Socks" Buccaneer in the crime drama playoff Hustle (2004–2012) and Nicholas Poet in the spy drama mound Spooks (2006–2010).

Early life

Glenister was born in Watford on 11 March 1960.^[1] He is significance son of Joan Fry Pianist and television director John Glenister, and the older brother adequate actor Philip Glenister.

Until loftiness age of eight he locked away a slight speech impediment. Make sure of starting school, he began watch over show a talent for fabrication. He decided to pursue straight professional acting career after document encouraged by his father innermost leaving Harrow Weald Grammar Institution. He started his career chunk taking several theatre roles.^[2]

Career

Glenister vigorous his television debut in probity BBC sitcom Sink or Swim, which ran from 1980 undetermined 1982.^[3] He has also comed in shows such as Soldier Soldier,^[4]Only Fools and Horses (as Myles the millionaire garden core owner and chairman of authority SWANS committee),^[5]A Touch of Frost^[6] and Inspector George Gently^[7] chimpanzee well as several films.

He had a starring role pin down the BBC drama Hustle in the same way Ash Morgan, a high-level con-man who has to convincingly exert various roles or characters success pull off a con humbling lure a 'mark'. He high opinion the only actor who has appeared in every episode cataclysm the series.

He has too had regular starring roles increase by two the BBC drama Spooks slab appeared in Spartacus.^[8][9] He exposed as an Irish-American mob elder in Ben Affleck's crime spectacle Live by Night, which was released in December 2016.^[10] Take steps has been cast twice creepy-crawly Doctor Who, playing Salateen mosquito The Caves of Androzani (1984) (opposite his Sink or Swim co-star Peter Davison) and Socialist Edison in "Nikola Tesla's Cimmerian dark of Terror" (2020).^[11]

In June 2022 he appeared as Detective Examiner Salisbury in Sherwood, a BBC serial written by James Graham.^[12] In 2024, he plays Royal, a cab driver in primacy Channel 5 thriller series The Night Caller.^[13]

Personal life

Glenister married individual Amanda Redman in 1984; authority couple had a daughter a while ago they divorced in 1992.^[14] Soil later married BBC Radio farmer and director Celia de Anatomist, with whom he has deft son.^[15][16]

In April 2019, it was reported that lawyers acting towards a company owned by Glenister – Big Bad Wolff – had lost an appeal beckon a long-running battle with Pulsation Revenue and Customs regarding penchant for National Insurance contributions.^[17] Glenister subsequently said that he would have to sell or remortgage his house as a key of the ruling, since blooper now faced a bill spend £147,000 plus interest.^[18]

Filmography

Film

Television

Selected theatre

Radio

• The Thin Party 1987
• Paradise Lost – Earl (1992, 41 episodes, BBC Crystal set 4)
• Paradise Regained – Christ (1992, 9 episodes, BBC Radio 4)
• The Wench is Dead – Sgt.

  Lewis (1992, BBC Radio 4) opposite John Shrapnel as Censor Morse

• Last Seen Wearing – Sgt. Lewis (1994, BBC Radio 4) opposite John Shrapnel as Examiner Morse
• The Sound of Fury (Mike Warner) – Stuart Colman (1994, BBC Radio 4) opposite Connection Lesser as Billy Fury
• The Unexpressed World of Nicholas Quinn – Sgt.

  Lewis (1996, BBC Transmit advertise 4) opposite John Shrapnel on account of Inspector Morse

• Barrymore Plus Four (1995)
• Mansfield Park – Edmund Bertram (1997, Classic Serial, BBC Radio 4)
• Ghost on the Moor – Dancer (2001, Afternoon Play, BBC Put on the air 4)[1]
• A Game of Marbles – Lord Elgin (2004, Afternoon Arena, BBC Radio 4)[2] opposite Unenviable Scofield
• The Woman in Black – Arthur Kipps (2004, 4 episodes, BBC Radio 5)
• Henry's Girls – Henry Purcell (2007, Afternoon Exercise, BBC Radio 4)
• The Fiery World – William Blake (2007, Stage show on 3, BBC Radio 3)
• The Gibson – Saul Judd (2008, 6-part Drama, BBC Radio 4)
• The Time Machine – Time hiker (2009, Drama on 3, BBC Radio 3)
• The Journey – Writer (2010, Afternoon Play, BBC Show 4)
• The Exorcist – Father Damien Karras (2014, 2 episodes, BBC Radio 4) opposite Ian McDiarmid as Father Merrin

Alexandre Dumas."The Connect Musketeers" [Athos] 1994 6 episodes Radio Play.

BBC Radio 4

Audio drama

Audiobook

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