Name Philip Battley Role Actor | Spouse Elisa Boyd | |
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Movies Wild Target, Dreams Of Gold Similar People Lucy Montgomery, Jonathan Lynn, Rhys Thomas | ||
Philip Battley is a British actor, based in London and in Hollywood, USA. He is married to actress Jessica Elisa Boyd, is the nephew of television and film actor David Battley, the grandson of Labour MP John Battley,
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Battley was educated at Dulwich College in London (alongside actors Chiwetel Ejiofor, Raza Jaffrey and Rupert Penry-Jones), and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read Social and Political Sciences, and performed variously alongside Olivia Coleman David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Matthew Holness, John Oliver and Richard Ayoade. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
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Battley has been seen in many theatrical productions on stage in the UK, including The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Festival Theatre, Gielgud Theatre, Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto). He appeared for two seasons with the Shakespeare's Globe theatre company in The Comedy of Errors, and was a member of the cast of Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry at the Tricycle Theatre, London, which won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. In 2013-4, he appeared as Maurice Duclos in Bill Kenwright's production of Noël Coward's Fallen Angels (play).