At the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in 2001 he was cast as Robert Caplan in J.B. Priestley's thriller "time-play" Dangerous Corner opposite Dervla Kirwan, who played Olwen Peel. Penry-Jones is known to be very critical of the British television and film industry. He was scheduled to appear alongside other celebrities in Soccer Aid 2010, but broke a bone in his knee during training, putting him in a plaster cast and ruling him out of the final match on 6 June 2010. He won ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards for his role in Spooks in 2008. Series 2 aired in 2012 and Series 3 premiered on 24 February 2014. Don't Waste Your Hard-Earned Money. He was cast as Richard in the premiere staging of Stephen Poliakoff’s Sweet Panic at Hampstead Theatre in 1996. Series 2 aired in 2012 and Series 3 premiered on 24 February 2014. In February 2009, he took the lead in an ITV drama, Whitechapel, a three-part thriller based on the copycat killings of Jack the Ripper. Whitechapel was the highest-performing new drama in 2009. Penry-Jones married Irish actress Dervla Kirwan in August 2007, following a three-year engagement.

In 1998, he created the role of the Boy in Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby at the Almeida Theatre. The film was directed by Alan Rickman. He stated that Doctor Who is a "very good children's show... but has low production values...and is a pantomime". He also said the Harry Potter films are “shit”. In 1999, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, playing the title role in Don Carlos at The Other Place theatre and Alcibiades in Timon of Athens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. At the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in 2001 he was cast as Robert Caplan in J.B. Priestley’s thriller “time-play” Dangerous Corner opposite Dervla Kirwan, who played Olwen Peel. Penry-Jones was born in London, the son of Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones and English actress Angela Thorne. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rupert_Penry-Jones&oldid=984994509, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2013, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 October 2020, at 09:42. [1], On BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast in August 2010, it was revealed that Penry-Jones' maternal grandfather, William, had served with the Indian Army Medical Corps at the Battle of Monte Cassino and that his earlier ancestors had a long-standing connection with the Indian Army. In February 2009, he took the lead in an ITV drama, Whitechapel, a three-part thriller based on the copycat killings of Jack the Ripper. He was cast as Richard in the premiere staging of Stephen Poliakoff's Sweet Panic at Hampstead Theatre in 1996. Penry-Jones was apparently devastated and proceeded to give a number of interviews in the UK in which he attacked the US television industry. He was scheduled to appear alongside other celebrities in Soccer Aid 2010, but broke a bone in his knee during training, putting him in a plaster cast and ruling him out of the final match on 6 June 2010. Grand P – biography, fact, career, awards, net... RESTRUCTURING: Northern leaders root for 12-state... Lamido Tackles Osinbajo, Zulum, Danjuma, Others over... Carabao Cup: Arsenal confirms five players to miss... Man Utd star Pogba: Cavani and I will be ready for... Chelsea boss Lampard: What I said to Ole at final... Edo Reps tackle Obaseki, demand 14 Assembly members’... FG engages six banks to open 774, 000 SPW... Palliatives in warehouses evidence my dad isn’t... TV series (1 episode: “The Burning Deck”), TV series (4 series, 18 episodes, 2009–2013), TV series (3 series, 18 episodes, 2011, 2012, 2014), Season II of Starz Network’s pirate drama. They met in a theatre production, Dangerous Corner, in 2001. [4] He also went on to play the role of Captain Wentworth in ITV's adaptation of Persuasion. In 2008, he starred with Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell in Burn Up playing an oil executive who becomes embroiled in the politics surrounding global warming and oil stocks. [citation needed].

His brother, Laurence Penry-Jones, is an actor turned ambulance driver who is married to actress Polly Walker. Both productions transferred to the Barbican Centre in London in 2000, where his performance as Don Carlos won the Ian Charleson Award. He was raised along with his brother, Laurence Penry-Jones, who is was also an actor.Laurence is now an ambulance driver and has been married to Enchanted April actress Polly Walker.. His maternal grandfather, William, had served at the Battle of Monte Cassino along with the Indian Army Medical Corps. His bad influence was a result of a broken relationship, which Rupert stated he tried to recover from by "shagging everything in sight". In 1999, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, playing the title role in Don Carlos at The Other Place theatre and Alcibiades in Timon of Athens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. The production then transferred for a four-month run at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End. The film was directed by Alan Rickman.[7].

In 2008, he starred with Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell in Burn Up playing an oil executive who becomes embroiled in the politics surrounding global warming and oil stocks. He played Richard Hannay in the BBC adaptation of The 39 Steps which was screened at Christmas 2008. Being dyslexic, he struggled at school, eventually leaving without A-levels.

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The following year he appeared in both The Paper Husband at Hampstead Theatre and as the upper-class Pip Thompson in a revival of Arnold Wesker's Chips with Everything on the Lyttelton stage at the Royal National Theatre. Both productions transferred to the Barbican Centre in London in 2000, where his performance as Don Carlos won the Ian Charleson Award. The show revolves around two barristers, played by Penry-Jones and Peake who are competing to become QCs. Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Adam Carter in the BBC One spy drama series Spooks, Clive Reader QC in the BBC One legal drama Silk, policeman DI Joseph Chandler in the ITV murder mystery series Whitechapel, and Mr. Quinlan in the FX horror series The Strain. In 1995 he appeared with his mother on television in Cold Comfort Farm. In 2008, he starred with Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell in Burn Up playing an oil executive who becomes embroiled in the politics surrounding global warming and oil stocks. relacionados con: Laurence Penry-Jones. He has since described American television as a "factory" and the producers as "disgusting".

Whitechapel was the highest-performing new drama in 2009. [1], He was educated at Dulwich College in south-east London, until age 17 when he was enrolled at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, only to be expelled in his second year for being a bad influence. Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, known for his role as Adam Carter in the BBC One spy drama series Spooks, as Clive Reader QC in BBC One legal drama Silk and policeman DI Joseph Chandler in the ITV murder mystery series Whitechapel. He admitted walking out of the first three films.[7]. On television, he has played barrister Alex Hay in C4’s ten-part serial North Square in 2000; Donald McLean in the BBC’s four-part production of Cambridge Spies in 2003; and Grimani in Russell T. Davies’ production of Casanova in 2005. He played the lead role of section leader Adam Carter for four series before leaving the show in 2008.

[1] They have two children.

[1] He was educated at Dulwich College in south-east London, until age 17 when he was enrolled at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School , only to be expelled in his second year for being a …

In 2004, he joined the cast in series 3 of the BBC's BAFTA-winning series Spooks. His brother, Laurence Penry-Jones, is an actor turned ambulance driver who is married to actress Polly Walker. His brother, Laurence Penry-Jones, is an actor turned ambulance driver who is married to actress Polly Walker. In 1999, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, playing the title role in Don Carlos at The Other Place theatre and Alcibiades in Timon of Athens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.