Name Ian Bartholomew | Role Actor | |
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Nominations Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical Movies and TV shows Perfect Scoundrels, Esther Kahn, Making Waves, Little Dorrit, Eisenstein Similar People Tracie Bennett, Renny Bartlett, Arnaud Desplechin, Ted Childs, Norman Stone |
Ian bartholomew talks about the prospect of playing richard iii
Ian Bartholomew (born 23 August 1954) is an English actor whohas worked widely in both theatre and television.
Contents
- Ian bartholomew talks about the prospect of playing richard iii
- Career
- Personal life
- Theatre
- Filmography
- References

Career

Bartholomew was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and brought up in Gosport. In television Bartholomew's work has ranged from The Darling Buds of May, Rumpole of the Bailey, Minder, and more recently, Making Waves and Spooks.

On stage he has been in productions such as A Man for All Seasons at the Redgrave Theatre in Farnham, Mirandolina and Assassins. In 2005 he was in the acclaimed production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee in the starring role of George at the Liverpool Playhouse and in that same year also at the playhouse he appeared in Alan Ayckbourn's Christmas comedy Season's Greetings. At the Menier Chocolate Factory in London he appeared in the new musical Take Flight in 2007. In 2010 he was well received as Eliza Doolittle's father in the Royal Exchange's production of Pygmalion. In 2011 in Mogadishu by Vivienne Franzmann at the Royal Exchange in Manchester and then at the Lyric Theatre in London.
In 2017 he recorded two songs for the album Wit & Whimsy - Songs by Alexander S. Bermange (one solo and one featuring all of the album's 23 artists), which reached No. 1 in the iTunes comedy album chart.
Personal life
Bartholomew is married to English theatre director Loveday Ingram. Their first child was born in March 2005 (age 12) and their youngest born on a later date of December 2007 (age 9). The family live in the mead-evil village of Malpas, Cheshire.

Theatre
His work in the theatre includes: -