Angus Wright (actor)
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Biography
Angus Wright was born in Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, the youngest child of Virginia and Patrick Wright
Patrick Wright, Baron Wright of Richmond
Patrick Richard Henry Wright, Baron Wright of Richmond GCMG is a retired British diplomat and former Head of HM Diplomatic Service.-Background:Patrick Wright, the son of Herbert and Rachel Wright, was educated at Marlborough College...
. His father's career in the British Diplomatic Service
Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service
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took the family to the Lebanon
Lebanon
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, the United States
United States
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, the U.K.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, Egypt
Egypt
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, Bahrain
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, Luxembourg
Luxembourg
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, Syria
Syria
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and Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
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.
Angus gained an M.A.
Master of Arts (Scotland)
A Master of Arts in Scotland can refer to an undergraduate academic degree in humanities and social sciences awarded by the ancient universities of Scotland – the University of St Andrews, the University of Glasgow, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh, while the University of...
in Art History at Edinburgh University
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...
and then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama
Central School of Speech and Drama
The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in London in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students...
.
He has worked extensively in theatre, film and television with directors including Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. His most famous films include The Duellists , Alien , Blade Runner , Legend , Thelma & Louise , G. I...
, Katie Mitchell
Katie Mitchell
Katrina Jane Mitchell OBE is an English theatre director. She is an Associate of the Royal National Theatre.-Life and career:Mitchell was raised in Hermitage, Berkshire and educated at Oakham School. Upon leaving Oakham she went up to Magdalen College, Oxford to read English...
, Simon McBurney
Simon McBurney
Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE is an English actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of Théâtre de Complicité in England, now called Complicite.-Early life:...
, David Yates
David Yates
David Yates is an English filmmaker who rose to mainstream prominence directing the final four films in the Harry Potter film series. He helmed the series' fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth installments, all of which became an instant blockbuster success and made him the most commercially...
, Nicholas Hytner
Nicholas Hytner
Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner is an English film and theatre producer and director. He has been the artistic director of London's National Theatre since 2003.-Biography:...
, Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE is a British theatre and opera director, author, physician, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and...
, Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff, CBE, FRSL is an acclaimed British playwright, director and scriptwriter, widely judged amongst Britain's foremost television dramatists.-Early life and career:...
, Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V , Much Ado About Nothing , Hamlet Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from...
, Marianne Elliott, Rowan Joffé
Rowan Joffé
Rowan Marc Joffé is a British screenwriter and director. He is the son of director Roland Joffé and actress Jane Lapotaire, and half-brother of actress Nathalie Lunghi....
and Steven Berkoff
Steven Berkoff
Steven Berkoff is an English actor, writer and director. Best known for his performance as General Orlov in the James Bond film Octopussy, he is typically cast in villanous roles, such as Lt...
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He is married to Helen and has a son, Max.
Film
| Year | Film | Role | Director | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Iron Lady | John Nott | Phyllida Lloyd | Pathé/DJ Films |
| 2008 | The Bank Job The Bank Job The Bank Job is a 2008 British crime film written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, directed by Roger Donaldson, and starring Jason Statham, based on the 1971 Baker Street robbery in central London, from which the money and valuables stolen were never recovered... |
Robert Rowlands | Roger Donaldson | Skyline (Baker Street) Ltd / Miriad |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven Kingdom of Heaven (film) Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic action film directed by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Marton Csokas, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McKidd, Alexander Siddig, Ghassan Massoud, Edward Norton, Jon Finch, Michael Sheen and Liam... |
Richard's Knight | Ridley Scott | 20th Century Fox |
| 2002 | Nicholas Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film) Nicholas Nickleby is a 2002 comedy-drama film written and directed by Douglas McGrath. The screenplay is based on The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, which originally was published in serial form between March 1838 and September 1839.-Plot:In a prologue we are... |
Mr Pluck | Douglas McGrath | Nicholas Nickleby Ltd |
| 2002 | Dr Sleep | Trainers Man | Nick Willing | BBC Films |
| 2001 | Charlotte Gray Charlotte Gray (film) Charlotte Gray is a 2001 British-Australian-German feature film directed by Gillian Armstrong, based on the novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks... |
Secret Agent | Gillian Armstrong | Ecosse Films |
| 2001 | The Affair of the Necklace The Affair of the Necklace The Affair of the Necklace is a 2001 American historical drama film directed by Charles Shyer. The screenplay by John Sweet is based on what became known as the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an incident that helped fuel the French populace's disillusionment with the monarchy and, among other... |
Henri Sanson | Charles Shyer | Necklace Productions |
| 2001 | Bridget Jones's Diary Bridget Jones's Diary (film) Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 British romantic comedy film based on Helen Fielding's novel of the same name. The adaptation stars Renée Zellweger as Bridget, Hugh Grant as the caddish Daniel Cleaver, and Colin Firth as Bridget's "true love", Mark Darcy... |
Literary Figure | Sharon Maguire | BJD Productions |
| 2000 | All Forgotten | Boris | Reverge Anselmo | Seven Hills Productions |
| 1999 | RKO 281 RKO 281 RKO 281 is a 1999 historical drama film directed by Benjamin Ross. It stars Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, and Roy Scheider and depicts the troubled production behind the 1941 film Citizen Kane... |
Joseph Cotten | Ben Ross | HBO/BBC |
| 1997 | Jilting Joe | Mick | Dan Zeff | Warner Sisters |
| 1995 | Cutthroat Island Cutthroat Island Cutthroat Island is a 1995 action adventure film directed by Renny Harlin. The film stars Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langella. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a major box office bomb: listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest box office flop of... |
Captain Trotter | Renny Harlin | Carolco |
| 1995 | First Knight First Knight First Knight is a 1995 American medieval film based on Arthurian legend, directed by Jerry Zucker. It stars Richard Gere as Lancelot, Julia Ormond as Guinevere, Sean Connery as King Arthur and Ben Cross as Malagant.... |
Marauder | Jerry Zucker | First Knight Productions |
| 1994 | Frankenstein | Guard | Kenneth Branagh | Shelley Films |
Theatre
| Year | Play | Role | Director | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Wastwater | Jonathan | Katie Mitchell | The Royal Court |
| 2010 | Design for Living | Ernest | Anthony Page | The Old Vic |
| 2010 | The Cat in the Hat | The Cat | Katie Mitchell | National Theatre Royal National Theatre The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company... & Young Vic |
| 2009 | Mrs Affleck | Alfred Affleck | Marianne Elliott | National Theatre |
| 2008 | The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes | Rotten | Elizabeth Freestone | Royal Shakespeare Company Royal Shakespeare Company The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across... |
| 2008 | The Merchant of Venice | Shylock | Tim Carroll | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 2007 | War Horse | Hauptmann Friedrich Müller | Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris | National Theatre |
| 2007 | St Joan | Earl of Warwick | Marianne Elliott | National Theatre |
| 2006 | The Seagull | Dr Dorn | Katie Mitchell | National Theatre |
| 2006 | Measure for Measure | Angelo | Simon McBurney | Complicite Complicite The British theatre company Complicite was founded in 1983 by Simon McBurney, Annabel Arden, and Marcello Magni. Its original name was Théâtre de Complicité. "The Company's inimitable style of visual and devised theatre [has] an emphasis on strong, corporeal, poetic and surrealist image supporting... |
| 2005 | A Dream Play A Dream Play A Dream Play was written in 1901 by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. It was first performed in Stockholm on 17 April 1907. It remains one of Strindberg's most admired and influential dramas, seen as an important precursor to both dramatic Expressionism and Surrealism.-Plot:The primary... |
The Dreamer | Katie Mitchell | National Theatre |
| 2004 | Stuff Happens | Journalist/Sir David Manning | Nicholas Hytner | National Theatre |
| 2004 | Measure for Measure | Provost | Simon McBurney | National Theatre |
| 2003 | Three Sisters | Kulygin | Katie Mitchell | National Theatre |
| 2002 | Twelfth Night | Sir Andrew Aguecheek | Tim Carroll | The Globe Theatre at the Middle Temple Hall |
| 2001 | Three Sisters | Tusenbach | Loveday Ingram | Chichester Festival Theatre |
| 2000 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Algernon | Selina Cadell | Nottingham Playhouse |
| 1999 | Talk of the City | Clive | Stephen Poliakoff | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1998 | Chips With Everything | Pilot Officer | Howard Davies | National Theatre |
| 1997 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Lysander | Jonathan Miller | Almeida Theatre |
| 1996 | Mother Courage | The Lieutenant | Jonathan Kent | National Theatre |
| 1995 | Private Lives | Victor | Kenny Ireland | Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh |
| 1994 | A Mongrel's Heart | Bormenthal | Mark Wing-Davey | Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh |
| 1993 | Salomé | Iokanaan | Stephen Berkoff | European tour |
| 1993 | Hamlet | Guildenstern | Adrian Noble | RSC |
| 1992 | The Theban Plays | Chorus | Adrian Noble | RSC |
| 1992 | The Dybbuk | Batlon | Katie Mitchell | RSC |
| 1991 | Henry IV Parts I & II | Douglas & Bullcalf | Adrian Noble | RSC |
Television
| Year | Series | Role | Director | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Sarah Jane Adventures The Sarah Jane Adventures The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television series, produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies and starring Elisabeth Sladen... |
Mr Dread | Joss Agnew | DW Productions Ltd |
| 2009 | Above Suspicion Above Suspicion (TV drama) Above Suspicion is a TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars Kelly Reilly and Ciarán Hinds... |
Parks | Chris Menaul | La Plante Productions |
| 2008 | The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall | Sherard Cowper-Coles | Rowan Joffe | Talkback Thames/Channel 4 |
| 2008 | Waking the Dead Waking the Dead (TV series) Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series... |
Stephen Carson | Tim Fywell | BBC |
| 2007 | Hotel Babylon Hotel Babylon Hotel Babylon was a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One... |
Francis Levington | Paul Whittington | Carnival |
| 2005 | Casanova Casanova (2005 TV serial) Casanova is a 2005 British television comedy drama serial, written by television scriptwriter Russell T Davies and directed by Sheree Folkson... |
Man at Arms | Sheree Folkson | Red Productions |
| 2004 | Wire in the Blood Wire in the Blood Wire in the Blood was a British crime drama television series, devised and produced by Coastal Productions for the ITV network that ran from 2002 to 2009. The series is based on characters created by Val McDermid; a university clinical psychologist, Dr Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill , is teamed with... |
Willerton | Terry McDonagh | Coastal Productions |
| 2003 | Boudica Boudica (film) Boudica is a British film released in 2003. Starring Alex Kingston, Steven Waddington and Emily Blunt, the film is a biopic of the queen of the Iceni tribe, Boudica.- Production :... |
Severus | Bill Anderson | Box TV |
| 2003 | Cambridge Spies Cambridge Spies Cambridge Spies is a 2003 four-part BBC television drama concerning the lives of the best-known quartet of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies from 1934 to the 1951 defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean to the Soviet Union... |
Guy Liddell | Tim Fywell | BBC |
| 2001 | The Way We Live Now The Way We Live Now (2001 TV serial) The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the novel by Anthony Trollope. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark... |
Miles Grendall | David Yates | BBC |
| 2001 | The Vice | Defence Council | Julian Holmes | Carlton |
| 2001 | Whistleblower | Sutton | Ben Bolt | BBC |
| 2000 | Attachments | Ed Viner | Harry Bradbeer | Carlton UK |
| 1998 | Dalziel and Pascoe Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series) Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives... |
Greg Waterson | Maurice Phillips | BBC |
| 1997 | The Painted Lady | Charles Stafford | Julian Jarrold | Granada |
| 1996 | Crocodile Shoes | Alan McGuire | David Richards | Red Rooster Films |
| 1995 | 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... |
Chief Inspector Wallace | Jeremy Silberston | Thames TV |
| 1993 | Between the Lines | Motorcycle Officer | Bob Bierman | BBC |
Radio
| Year | Show | Role | Director | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Secret Pilgrim | Hansen | Patrick Rayner | BBC Radio 4 |
| 2008 | Plenty | Sir Andrew Charleson | John Dove | Catherine Bailey Productions |
| 2002 | Precious | Geoff | Jane Morgan | Pier Productions |
| 1990 | Carleton Hobbs Radio Award | |||