| Occupation Actor Role Actor Years active 1974–present Spouse Isobel Buchanan | Website www.jonathanhyde.net Children Georgia King Name Jonathan Hyde | |
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| Born 21 May 1948 (age 74) (1948-05-21) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Education Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Nominations Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Movies and TV shows The Strain, Jumanji, Titanic, Anaconda, The Mummy Similar People Richard Sammel, Bernard Hill, Bradley Pierce, Frances Fisher, Suzy Amis Cameron | ||
The strain season 2 jonathan hyde interview
Jonathan Hyde (born May 21, 1948) is an Australian English actor, best known to his film fans for roles such as Herbert Cadbury in Richie Rich, J. Bruce Ismay in 1997 hit film Titanic, Culverton Smith in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Warren Westridge in Anaconda, Sam Parrish/Van Pelt in Jumanji and Eldritch Palmer in the FX TV series The Strain.
Contents
- The strain season 2 jonathan hyde interview
- Life skills from hollywood actor jonathan hyde
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- With the Royal Shakespeare Company
- Return to Stratford as Associate Artist
- Other theatre work
- References
Life skills from hollywood actor jonathan hyde
Early life
Hyde was born in Brisbane, Queensland, to a middle-class family. His father was Stephen Geoffrey King, a successful solicitor (not to be confused with best-selling novelist Stephen King). Hyde's interest in law took him to university to study the subject but his passion for performing and the theatre led him to pursue a career in the 'business'. Leaving for London in the late 1960s he was awarded a coveted place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and won the Bancroft Gold Medal for excellence in his graduating year of 1972.
Career
Hyde is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Among other roles, he played Ferdinand in a 1985 production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. He was an original cast member of Not the Nine O'Clock News, the first series of which was pulled from broadcast because of the General Election of 1979. Hyde played J. Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the White Star Line in Titanic, Egyptologist Allen Chamberlain in The Mummy, and Sam Parrish/Van Pelt, the hunter in Jumanji. He has been in numerous films including The Contract, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Land of the Blind, The Tailor of Panama, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, Eisenstein and Anaconda.
He appeared in the 1989 BBC miniseries Shadow of the Noose in which he played barrister Edward Marshall Hall. He has also appeared in several television mysteries, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett and Midsomer Murders as Frank Smythe-Webster.
In 2007, Hyde played Dr. Dorn in Chekhov's The Seagull and the Earl of Kent in King Lear for the RSC in a repertory company that included Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Romola Garai, William Gaunt and Sylvester McCoy. Both plays toured together internationally, before taking up residence in the New London Theatre. The final performance was on 12 January 2008. He reprised his role of Kent in the 2008 television film of King Lear.
In the final series of BBC's popular series Spooks, Hyde played Ilya Gavrik, a Russian Minister.
Hyde appeared as Lionel Logue, the King's speech therapist in the West End production of The King's Speech at Wyndham's Theatre.
He also appeared on the rap supergroup Westside Connection's first studio album Bow Down on the intro on the album.
Since 2014 he has starred as Eldritch Palmer in the FX TV series The Strain.
Personal life
Hyde is married to Scottish soprano Isobel Buchanan. The couple have two daughters, one of whom is actress Georgia King.