Greg Wise

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Greg Wise
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Wise at the London Film Festival premiere of Saving Mr. Banks , October 2013
Born
Matthew Gregory Wise

(1966-05-15) 15 May 1966 (age 57)
Alma mater Heriot-Watt University
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Occupation(s)Actor, producer
Years active1992–present
Spouse
(m. 2003)
Children2

Matthew Gregory Wise (born 15 May 1966) is an English actor and producer. He has appeared in several British television programmes and feature films. He played the role of John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility , which also starred Emma Thompson, whom he later married.

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Early life and education

Wise was born on 15 May 1966 in Newcastle upon Tyne to architect parents Douglass Wise and Yvonne Jeannine Czeiler. He was educated at the independent St Peter's School, York. He went to Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh to study architecture and performed at Bedlam Theatre. Wise studied drama at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.[ citation needed ]

Career

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Wise, 2009

His first professional job was on stage, starring in Good Rockin' Tonight, a musical based on TV producer Jack Good's life. [1] [2]

His television work includes four BBC period dramas: The Moonstone with Keeley Hawes, The Buccaneers alongside Carla Gugino, Madame Bovary with Frances O'Connor, The Riff Raff Element in 1992 and 1993, and as Sir Charles Maulver in the 2007 five-part series Cranford . In 1999 he starred as Marshall in ITV's seven-part drama Wonderful You alongside his future mother-in-law Phyllida Law and future brother-in-law Richard Lumsden. He filmed a number of readings of love scenes from a selection of classic and modern love scenes, from Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles to Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss for The Carte Noire Readers. [3] [4] In 2011, he appeared in Hallmark Channel's Honeymoon for One, starring Nicollette Sheridan. [5]

He is also the producer of the 2010 BBC/Masterpiece production The Song of Lunch starring his wife, actress Emma Thompson, and Alan Rickman. [6]

In February 2015, Wise made his theatrical return starring in Brad Fraser's Kill Me Now at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, London. In July 2015, he played the role of emotionally distanced father Gilbert Aldridge in the BBC's two-part television adaptation of Sadie Jones’ debut novel The Outcast. [7] Wise portrayed Lord Louis Mountbatten in series 1 and 2 (2016/17) of Netflix's The Crown .

Wise won the celebrity version of The Great British Bake Off in aid of Stand Up to Cancer in 2019. [8]

In 2021, Wise was a contestant on nineteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing . He was partnered with Karen Hauer and the couple were eliminated in the fourth week. [9]

Personal life

Wise has been in a relationship with actress Emma Thompson since 1995, when they met on the set of Sense and Sensibility. [10] Their daughter Gaia was conceived through IVF and was born in 1999. [11] They married in 2003, and that same year, they informally adopted Tindyebwa Agaba, a Rwandan orphan and former child soldier. [11]

Filmography

Film

TitleYearRoleNotes
Feast of July 1995Arch Wilson
Sense and Sensibility 1995 John Willoughby
The Moonstone , a BBC TV film1996Franklin Blake
Judas Kiss 1998Ben Dyson
Africa1999Josh Sinclair
Mad Cows 1999Alex
The Discovery of Heaven 2001Max Delius
Hills Like White Elephants 2002The Americanshort
Johnny English 2003Agent One
Five Moons Plaza 2003Francesco Doni
Every Seven Years 2004Boyfriendshort
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby 2005Minister Lee
A Cock and Bull Story 2005Greg
The Disappeared 2008Jake Ryan
Morris: A Life with Bells On 2009Miloslav Villandry
Effie Gray 2013 John Ruskin
3 Days in Havana2013Harry Smith
Walking on Sunshine 2014Doug
A Private War 2018Professor David Irens
Military Wives 2019Richard

Television

TitleYearRoleNotes
A Masculine Ending 1992Jamie BairdTV film
Covington Cross 1992Henry of GaultEpisode: Pilot
Typhon's People 1993Cato Macgill / Adam PrimeTV film
The Riff Raff Element 1993AlisterTV series
Taggart 1994Greg MartinEpisode:Hellfire
Feast of July 1995Arch Wilson
The Buccaneers 1995Guy ThwaiteTV mini-series
Tales from the Crypt 1996Justin AmbersonEpisode: Fatal Caper
The Place of the Dead 1997Corporal Hugh BrittanTV film
Hospital! 1997Dr. Jim Nightingale
House of Frankenstein 1997 1997Crispian GrimesTV film
Alice Through the Looking Glass 1998Red KnightTV film
Wonderful You 1999Marshall, chartered accountantTV mini-series
Madame Bovary 2000RodolpheTV film (episodes 2, 3)
Battersea to Bethlehem: A Christmas Story 2001Narrator
Sirens 2002Oliver Rice
Hornblower , Loyalty 2003Major CôtardTV film
According to Bex 2005Charles Mathers
Number 13 2006Professor AndersonBBC Ghost Stories for Christmas
Trial & Retribution Sins of the Father2006John HarrogateTV film
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes 2006Peter HigginsTV film
Agatha Christie's Marple Towards Zero2007Nevile StrangeTV film
Place of Execution 2008Philip HawkinTV film
Cranford 2009Sir Charles Maulver
The Song of Lunch 2010ProducerTV film
Law & Order: UK 2011Gavin WilliamsEpisode 32: Crush
Honeymoon for One2011SeanTV film
Homefront 2012Major Pete Bartham
Unknown Heart  [ fr ]2014Duncan Lancaster
The Outcast 2015Gilbert Aldridge
Galavant 2016Arnold Galavant
The Crown 2016–2017 Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma Main role (Seasons 12)
Modus 2017Warren Schifford
Strange Angel 2018Alfred MillerTV series
Strictly Come Dancing 2021Contestant Series 19

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