Maxwell Caulfield (born
Maxwell Maclaine, November 23, 1959) is a British-born but mostly United States-based film, stage and television actor.
Caulfield was born as
Maxwell Maclaine in
DerbyDerby is a city in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407...
, not
GlasgowGlasgow 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...
as he had once claimed, the elder son of Peter Nelby Maclaine and his wife, Oriole. He has a younger brother, Marcus Maclaine, a musician. The actor's American stepfather, a
MarineThe United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States armed forces responsible for providing force projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
instructor at Parris Island, reportedly kicked Caulfield out of the house at the age of 15.
He later became a go-go dancer at Raymond Revue Bar, a famous
stripteaseA striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner...
club in London.
Maxwell Caulfield (born
Maxwell Maclaine, November 23, 1959) is a British-born but mostly United States-based film, stage and television actor.
Early life
Caulfield was born as
Maxwell Maclaine in
DerbyDerby is a city in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407...
, not
GlasgowGlasgow 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...
as he had once claimed, the elder son of Peter Nelby Maclaine and his wife, Oriole. He has a younger brother, Marcus Maclaine, a musician. The actor's American stepfather, a
MarineThe United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States armed forces responsible for providing force projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
instructor at Parris Island, reportedly kicked Caulfield out of the house at the age of 15.
He later became a go-go dancer at Raymond Revue Bar, a famous
stripteaseA striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner...
club in London. At 18, he moved to the U.S. and obtained his
green cardA United States Permanent Resident Card, also known as a green card , is an identification card attesting to the permanent resident status of an alien in the United States of America. Green card also refers to an immigration process of becoming a permanent resident...
.
Theatre
Caulfield made his acting debut
off-BroadwayOff Broadway theater is an umbrella term for a defined set of plays, musicals or revues performed in New York City. Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, the hub of the theater industry in the United...
in 1981 as the titular drifter in
Joe OrtonJohn Kingsley Orton was an English playwright.In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies...
's
Entertaining Mr. Sloane.
He made his
BroadwayBroadway Theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, is the theatre associated with the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City...
debut in
J. B. PriestleyJohn Boynton Priestley, OM was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster.-Early years:Priestley was born in what he described as an "ultra-respectable" suburb of Bradford...
's
An Inspector CallsAn Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 and 1946 . It is considered to be one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre...
opposite
Siân PhillipsSiân Phillips, CBE is a Welsh actress.-Early life:Phillips was born in Betws, Ammanford, Wales, the daughter of Sally , a teacher, and David Phillips, a steelworker-turned-policeman...
. He also played opposite
Jessica TandyJessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy was an English stage and film actress.She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V, and Cordelia opposite John Gielgud's "King Lear". She also worked in British films...
and
Elizabeth WilsonElizabeth Welter Wilson is an American Tony Award-winning actress. She was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2007.-Biography:...
in
Salonika. In 2007, Caulfield performed in the
Charles BuschCharles Louis Busch, is an American actor, author, dramatist and female impersonator, known for his many appearances on film and in off-Broadway productions.-Biography:...
play,
Our Leading Lady, opposite
Kate MulgrewKatherine Kiernan Mulgrew was is an American actress, most famous for her roles as Mary Ryan on Ryan's Hope and Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager....
. He has also played the leading role in a regional production of the
Jerry HermanJerry Herman is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He has been nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for La Cage aux Folles and...
musical,
La Cage aux Folles.
Film and television
His first major movie role was as the
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-turned-
hunkHunk may refer to:* A slang term for a sexually appealing man, a person who is sexually attractive or a well-muscled, sexualized man, as in beefcake.* A hunk in computing is a portion of a patch or diff file....
Michael Carrington in the
musical filmThe musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are usually used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but some musical films simply plop the songs in as unrelated "specialties" - as with Carmen Miranda's...
Grease 2Grease 2 is the sequel to the musical film Grease , which was itself based upon the musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Grease 2 was produced by Allan Carr and Robert Stigwood, and directed and choreographed by Patricia Birch, the choreographer of the first film...
(1982) opposite
Michelle PfeifferMichelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. She made her screen début in 1980, but first garnered mainstream attention with her appearance in Scarface...
.
Caulfield's other appearances include:
- Electric Dreams (1984) as Bill
- The Boys Next Door
The Boys Next Door is a 1985 independent drama/adventure movie, about two young men Bo and Roy , on the verge of adult life, whose bleak futures project them on a grim and violent adventure, before resigning themselves to the mundane reality of working in a dead-end factory...
(1985)
- Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again was a 1989 TV mini-series based on the Judith Krantz novel, Till We Meet Again. Its stars included Bruce Boxleitner, Hugh Grant and Courteney Cox.-External links:...
(1989)
- Gettysburg
Gettysburg is a 1993 film that dramatizes the decisive Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. It was directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, who also wrote the screenplay, a close adaptation of Michael Shaara's 1974 novel The Killer Angels, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in...
(1993) as Colonel Strong VincentStrong Vincent was a lawyer who became famous as a U.S. Army officer during the fighting on Little Round Top at the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, where he was mortally wounded.-Early life:...
- The Colbys
The Colbys is an American prime time soap opera which aired on ABC from November 20, 1985 to March 26, 1987. The Aaron Spelling-produced series was a spin-off from the more successful Dynasty, which had been ranked #1 for the 1984-1985 U.S. television season...
as Miles Colby
- Beverly Hills 90210s first episode, as Jason, an older man interested in Shannen Doherty
Shannen Maria Doherty is an American actress and television director, perhaps best known for her work as Heather Duke in Heathers , as Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210 and its spinoff series 90210 and as Prue Halliwell in Charmed .-Early life and career beginnings:Doherty was born in Memphis,...
(unaware of how young she is)
- Empire Records
Empire Records is a 1995 comedy-drama about a group of record store employees. The film was directed by Allan Moyle and stars Anthony LaPaglia, Rory Cochrane, Renée Zellweger, Ethan Embry, and Liv Tyler.-Plot summary:...
(1995) as Rex Manning, a spoiled has-been rock star
- All My Children
All My Children is an American soap opera that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5, 1970; repeat episodes air weeknights on SOAPnet. Created by Agnes Nixon, the show is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia...
(1996-1997) as Pierce Riley
- Casualty (British hospital-based TV series)
Casualty, styled as CASUAL
+Y, is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world, and the second-longest-running medical drama in the world behind America's General Hospital. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted in the UK...
as Dr Jim Brodie
- The Real Blonde
The Real Blonde is a 1997 movie directed and written by Tom DiCillo. It stars Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, and Maxwell Caulfield. The film is a satire on New York's fashion and entertainment industries.-Plot:...
(1997) as Bob
- The Nanny
Nanny may refer to:* Nanny, a child's carer* A grandmother * A Cajun word for godmother * Nanny of the Maroons* A female goat*Nanny produced by the BBC in the early 1980's starring Wendy Craig...
"The Fran in the Mirror" (1999) as Rodney Pembroke
- Dragon Storm (2004) as Silas
- Emmerdale
Emmerdale, known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989, is a popular and critically acclaimed British soap opera that has aired on ITV since 1972...
(TV Soap opera) Mark Wylde 2009-present
Caulfield is currently playing the role of
Mark WyldeMark Wylde is a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale played by Maxwell Caulfield. He made his first appearance, along with his wife Natasha, on 15 January 2009.-Character creation and development:...
in the British
ITVITV is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK...
soap opera Emmerdale from January 2009.
Caulfield has also done voice work. He voiced the character of
Alistair SmytheAlistair Smythe is a comic book supervillain, owned by Marvel Comics and existing in that company's Marvel Universe. He was one of the main foes of Spider-Man...
in
Spider-Man: The Animated SeriesSpider-Man, also known as Spider-Man: The Animated Series, is an award-winning American animated series starring the Marvel Comics superhero, Spider-Man. The show ran on Fox Kids from November 19, 1994, to January 31, 1998. The producer/story editor was John Semper, Jr. and production company was...
from 1994-1998 and was the voice of
James BondJames Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. The character has also been used in the longest running and most financially successful English language film franchise to date, starting in 1962 with Dr...
in the videogame
Nightfire.
Stage roles
- Class Enemy at the Player's Theater, West Village, New York
- The Elephant Man
The Elephant Man is a 1979 play by Bernard Pomerance. The production's Broadway debut was produced by Richmond Crinkley and Nelle Nugent, and directed by Jack Hofsiss....
- Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1981) at the Cherry Lane Theater, New York
- An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 and 1946 . It is considered to be one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre...
(1992) Broadway (New York) & Royal National TheatreThe Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company....
, UK
- Salonika at the The Public Theater, New York
- Tryst
Tryst had its debut on April 6 2006 at the Promenade Theatre in New York.The play, by British playwright Karoline Leach, has been described as a "subversion of Edwardian melodrama", in which the stereotypical actions and responses of the characters are used to ask usually unasked questions about...
at the Promenade Theater
- Our Leading Lady at the City Centre, New York (Manhattan Theatre Club)
- Chicago
Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical set in prohibition era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse...
played Billy Flynn at the Cambridge TheatreThe Cambridge Theatre is a West End theatre, on a corner site in Earlham Street facing Seven Dials, in the London Borough of Camden, built in 1929-30. It was designed by Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie; interior partly by Serge Chermayeff, with interior bronze friezes by sculptor Anthony Gibbons...
, London
Awards
- Theater World Award for his performance in Class Enemy.
In 1980, Caulfield, who was then 21, became the third husband of actress
Juliet MillsJuliet Maryon Mills, is an English actress.The daughter of John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and the sister of Hayley Mills, Juliet Mills began her career as a child actor. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her work in Five Finger Exercise in 1960...
, who is 18 years his senior. Nonetheless the marriage has remained intact for almost three decades. Caulfield is stepfather to Mills' son Sean Alquist from her first marriage and he also adopted her daughter, Melissa, from Mills' second marriage. Caulfield's younger brother, Marcus, had a relationship with Juliet Mills' younger sister,
HayleyHayley Mills is an English actress. The daughter of John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for Tiger Bay , the Academy Juvenile Award...
.
Caulfield and Mills reside in
Santa Barbara, CaliforniaSanta Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the west coast, between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the sea, and having a Mediterranean climate, it is called California's...
.
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