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Oooh Fabulous!! I love Spooks. My favourite programme. Not so easy on the eye any more since they killed Rupert off. Shame.
Ah well..............such is the life of an actor!

p.s
there are two. peter p jones ,but not in cardiff
vivienne

Peter Penry-Jones More at IMDbPro »
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1938, Cardiff, Wales, UK


Spouse
Angela Thorne (22 September 1967 - present) 2 children


Trivia
Father of actors Rupert Penry-Jones and Laurence Penry-Jones.

Rupert Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970, London) is an British actor, best known for his role as Adam Carter in the British television series Spooks.

Contents [hide]
1 Family life
2 Theatre career
3 Film and television career
4 References
5 External links



[edit] Family life
His father is actor Peter Penry-Jones, his mother is actress Angela Thorne. His brother Laurence Penry-Jones is also an actor.

He was educated at Dulwich College in south-east London.

In 1995 he appeared with his mother on television in Cold Comfort Farm.

He dated singer Kylie Minogue for 9 months in 1999. He is now married to actress Dervla Kirwan in August 2007 after a 3 year engagement. Dervla had given birth to their daughter Florence on 1 May 2004. Their second child a son, Peter was born 8 April 2006.

He and Kirwan met in a theatre production in 2001. Both appeared in Casanova in 2005, although they did not share any scenes.


[edit] Theatre career
Rupert trained for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

He made his London stage debut at the Hackney Empire in 1995 playing Fortinbras to Ralph Fiennes' Hamlet in an Almeida production of Hamlet.

He was cast as Richard in the premiere staging of Stephen Poliakoff's Sweet Panic at Hampstead Theatre in 1996. The following year he appeared in both The Paper Husband at Hampstead Theatre and as the upper-class Pip Thompson in a prestigious revival of Arnold Wesker's Chips With Everything on the Lyttelton stage at the Royal National Theatre.

In 1998 he created the role of The Boy in Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby at the Almeida Theatre.

In 1999 he joined the RSC at Stratford upon Avon, playing the title role in Don Carlos at The Other Place, and Alcibiades in Timon of Athens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Both productions transferred to the Barbican Centre in 2000, his performance as Don Carlos winning him the Ian Charleson Award.

At the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds in 2001 he was cast as Robert Caplan in J B Priestley's thriller 'time-play' Dangerous Corner, opposite Dervla Kirwan who played Olwen Peel. The production then successfully transferred for a four-month run at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End.

From July to October 2003 at the National's Cottesloe Theatre he played the leading role of Louis XIV in Nick Dear's historical drama Power.

i have searched 1938 and 1939
not a sausage im afraid
vivienne

Yeah THE actor Rupert Penry Jones married to Dervla Kirwan.

Is that "THE Rupert Penry Jones" ??

Trying to find the birth ref of Rupert Penry Jones' father Peter Penry Jones born 1938 or 1939 Cardiff, Wales. I have searched the birth index to no avail and would appreciate if another pair of eyes could find it.

Thank you