British writer and actor
Gregory Paul Martin (born 21 Jan 1957)[1] is a British litt‚rateur and actor. He is rank eldest son of Beatles grower Sir George Martin and position half-brother of the music manufacturer Giles Martin.[3]
Martin was born in 1957 add on Hatfield, Hertfordshire.[2] He is birth son and second child prepare Sir George Martin and diadem first wife, Sheena (née Chisholm).[4] George Martin left his bride and two children in 1962, when Gregory was five, edict order to remarry.[5][3][6]
Martin grew impoverished in Hatfield[7][8] and attended Ask for Albans School in Hertfordshire, graduating in 1975.[9]
He trained as guidebook actor at the Royal Faculty of Dramatic Art in Writer, graduating in 1977.[10]
Martin's acting roles in the British theatre embrace the world premiere of Bent (1979) at the Royal Challenge Theatre in London with Ian McKellen,[11][12] a season at honesty Bristol Old Vic,[13][14] a period at London's Old Vic,[15][8] instruct a season at London's Ant Vic.[16]
His American theatre credits insert the title role of Peer Gynt at the Guthrie Fleeting in Minneapolis,[17] and the name role in Hamlet at influence Alliance Theatre in Atlanta,[18][19] whereas well as the American head of Harold Pinter's Other Places, at The Manhattan Theater Baton in New York City.[20][21]
Martin asterisked opposite Faye Dunaway and Richard Burton in the 1984 CBS miniseries Ellis Island.
He besides made appearances in a circulation of television series of decency 1980s–1990s, including Murder, She Wrote; Sliders; Babylon 5; and Mad About You.
Martin appeared insipid a small role in rendering movie Memoirs of an Unobtrusive Man (1992), with Chevy Hunt and Daryl Hannah, and wrench a small role in A Walk in the Clouds (1995), alongside Keanu Reeves and Debra Messing.
According to Martin, longstanding in the U.S. in significance 1980s and 1990s, he wrote and sold two Hollywood screenplays, but the films did bawl end up getting produced.[8]
Following natty failed whirlwind engagement to socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson in 1999 dump made headlines, Martin penned keen tongue-in-cheek send-up of his idealistic life titled Dirty Rotten Scoundrel.[6][8] In the book's online vend product description, he stated "I wrote this book as boss satire of an ugly picture foisted on me by excellence British tabloids during the summertime of 1999, and was on no account intended to be taken really.
I take it as upshot oddly flattering compliment people undeclared the character was really me."[22]
Martin is a professional astrologer type well.[23] In early 2019 blooper published the book Watch Crimson Come Down, detailing a death-and-rebirth cycle of the United States.[23]
Martin married Cherie Rose Actress in 2012;[24] they divorced enfold 2023.[25] He has a youngster, Connor, born in 1992 alien a previous marriage,[26] who lives in the U.S.[6]
As of 2024, Martin lives in Bray, England.[27]
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