Ian Kelly (actor)

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Ian Francis Kelly (born 16 January 1966) [1] is a British writer and actor. His works include historical biographies, stage and screenplays.

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Early life

Born in Cambridge, England, in 1966, Kelly is the second son of Professor Donald Kelly and Patricia Ann Kelly. He was brought up in Philadelphia, Bristol, and the Wirral. Kelly studied at Cambridge University and UCLA Film School.

Playwright

Kelly’s play 'Mr Foote's Other Leg', directed by Sir Richard Eyre and starring Simon Russell Beale, opened at Hampstead Theatre in 2015 before transferring directly into the West End, Theatre Royal Haymarket, playing 2015-2016. [2]

Acting

He played Hermione Granger's father in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 . He appeared in The Pitmen Painters at the National Theatre, [3] on Broadway and in the West End and A Busy Day, also in the West End. He acted on London's West End and in New York in his own one-man plays and also the US premiere of Ron Hutchinson's ‘’Beau Brummell’’ in the title role. He was nominated for Best Actor for his work in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (Manchester Drama Awards). For his work in Alexei Balabanov's Voyna (War) , shot in Chechnya and the Caucasus, he was nominated for Best Actor at the Montreal World Film Festival. [4] He appeared in the premiere production of his play Mr Foote’s Other Leg in 2015, playing George III.

Historian and Biographer

Kelly has published biographies of Antonin Careme (2004), [5] Beau Brummell (2005), [6] Casanova (2008), [7] [8] [9] and Samuel Foote (Mr. Foote's Other Leg, 2012). [10] [11] His biography of Vivienne Westwood, written with Dame Vivienne, was published in October 2014. [12]

Adaptations

The BBC Television drama Beau Brummell: This Charming Man with Hugh Bonneville and Phil Davis was based on Ian Kelly’s biography. His biography of Giacomo Casanova was read by Benedict Cumberbatch on BBC Radio 4 in 2008 as a Book of the Week abridged by Amber Barnfather, [13] repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra, [14] then published by BBC Worldwide as an audio book in May 2015. He wrote the scenario of Casanova for a 2017 ballet choreographed by Kenneth Tindall for Northern Ballet which was also performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre. [15] [16]

Awards

Mr. Foote's Other Leg, was named Best Theatre Book by the Society for Theatre Research UK in May 2013. His biography of Beau Brummell was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Award. His biography of Casanova was the Sunday Times Biography of the Year 2008-9.

Journalism

Kelly has written for most of the British broadsheets and the New York Times . He is a contributing editor of Food Arts Magazine.

Television

As an actor his TV work includes Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus [17] Drop the Dead Donkey , Silent Witness , Just William , Catherine Cookson's The Moth, Sensitive Skin , and Time Trumpet .

Film

Kelly has acted in many films including The Children Act , Closed, Creation, Merchant-Ivory's Howards End , Richard Attenborough's In Love and War , The Mission , The King's Man and the Russian films Admiral and Aleksei Balabanov's War . [18]

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References

  1. ↑ KELLY, Ian Francis, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  2. ↑ Clapp, Susannah (27 September 2015). "Gusto and Sorrow at the dawn of celebrity". The Guardian.
  3. ↑ "Miners Wielding Paintbrushes in Lee Hall Drama". New York Times.
  4. ↑ Kelly, Ian (8 November 2002). "A dance to the music of death". The Daily Telegraph.
  5. ↑ Schrambling, Regina (14 July 2004). "Careme de la Careme". Los Angeles Times.
  6. ↑ Stevenson, Jane (31 December 2005). "Fine and Dandy". The Observer.
  7. ↑ Hughes, Kathryn (16 August 2008). "Naughty nuns and peeping Toms". The Guardian.
  8. ↑ Scurr, Ruth (19 June 2008). "Ian Kelly, Casanova Book Review". The Times.
  9. ↑ "Editor's Choice". New York Times. 14 December 2008.
  10. ↑ Stockley, Philippa (10 October 2012). "Mr Foote's Other Leg". The Daily Telegraph.
  11. ↑ Sylvester, Christopher. "Mr Foote's Other Leg". The Daily Express.
  12. ↑ "Fabulously, fetishistically, brilliant". The Daily Telegraph.
  13. ↑ Casanova - BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week
  14. ↑ Ian Kelly - Casanova - BBC Radio 4 Extra
  15. ↑ "Ian Kelly". Northern Ballet.
  16. ↑ Anderson, Zoe (11 May 2017). "Casanova, Saddler's Wells London review". The Independent.
  17. ↑ Elley, Derek (19 June 1996). "Cold Lazarus". Variety.
  18. ↑ White, Frederick H. (2015). "Interview with Ian Kelly from Aleksei Balabanov's War". Academia, Kinokultura.
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