Alistair Petrie Biography, Age, Family, Wife, Sherlock, Rogue One, Hellboy

Alistair Petrie Biography

Alistair Petrie is an English actor best known for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), The Bank Job (2008) and Victor Frankenstein (2015).

Alistair Petrie Age

Alistair was born on 30 September1970 in Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. He is 48 years old as of 2018.

Alistair Petrie Family

Alistair was brought up in the Middle East, mainland Europe and East Africa and his father was a RAF fighter pilot. Alistair trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

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He is married to British actress Lucy Scott, and played Charlotte Lucas in Andrew Davies’s version of Pride and Prejudice (1995). The couple have three sons together, their twin sons Cal and Brodie were born 5 March 2003.

Alistair Petrie Career

Alistair spent his early career in theatre around the country before joining the RSC where productions included Troilus and Cressida and Ibsen’s Brand opposite Ralph Fiennes. He joined the National Theatre in 2005, where he stayed for 28 months performing in His Dark Materials, Shakespeare’s Henry IV alongside Sir Michael Gambon and also David Edgar’s Playing With Fire’. He appeared in Marc Munden’s The Mark of Cain, The Whistleblowers and Cranford in 2007.

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Alistair Petrie Sherlock

Petrie played the role of Major James Sholto in the second episode of Season 3 of the BBC TV series Sherlock which was aired on 5 January 2014.

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Petrie plays General Davits Draven in the 2016 American epic space opera Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The film was directed by Gareth Edwards. The film follows a group of rebels on a mission to steal the plans for the Death Star, the Galactic Empire’s superweapon.

Alistair Petrie Hellboy

Alistair stars as Lord Glaren in a reboot of the Hellboy film series in 2019.

Alistair Petrie Net Worth

The actor’s net worth is not yet revealed.

Alistair Petrie Height

The actor stands at a height of 6’3″ (190cm).

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Alistair Petrie Interview

ALISTAIR PETRIE ON NETFLIX’S SEX EDUCATION & HELLBOY

Source: www.crookesmagazine.com

Published: JANUARY 11, 2019

AC: All of the projects that you’re acting in this year are incredibly different. What makes a role interesting to you?

ALISTAIR PETRIE: A heady combination of script, part, director, production, creative team and cast. That’s a pretty delicate algorithm to fulfill. I do subscribe to the notion that a huge part in a terrible script is a complete waste of time. Although, that said, I also realize there can be bills to pay. ‘Interesting’ doesn’t ever necessarily mean ‘big’. Give me someone with flaws, someone struggling with something, someone trying their best, trying to figure out how to be given the circumstance they exist in. Sometimes you can come across underwritten characters in a really good piece of writing and you feel an instinctive grasp of who they are – a grasp that tells you no-one else can bring this person to life. That’s exciting. Then, if the hirers and firers let you, the collaboration begins. The party starts.

Tell us about your role in Netflix’s Sex Education. How does your character fit into the story?

ALISTAIR PETRIE: The Mighty Mr Groff is the Headmaster of Moordale School trying to keep a grip on an institution that is inhabited by teenagers doing their best to figure out who they are, want they want to do and who they want to do it with. Like most Headteachers of any Secondary School, he’s like Noah on day one of the Ark trip standing at a lectern trying to tell the animals how to behave and and what do. Good luck with that. There’s an added issue in that his teenage son is a pupil at the school which presents challenges for the both of them. He’s not the most compliant of offspring.

Can you recall any funny stories from on-set?

ALISTAIR PETRIE: My final shot on the series was a solo improvised dance sequence to be done from one angle in a single take. Yes, really. We were pushed for time, I blithely ignored the offer of a choreographer and I told the entire crew very confidently ‘don’t worry, I’ve got this’ knowing everyone wanted to get this done and get home for the weekend. I was having so much fun, I kept pleading for another take just so I could bust out some moves I’d kept in a box for twenty plus years. The final straw was my when I asked if I could do it yet again, this time channeling Tom Cruise in Risky Business. The silence was deafening.

As an actor, how can you tell when you’re reading a great script for a project?

ALISTAIR PETRIE: I can have a very immediate and visceral reaction within a couple of pages. My stomach jumps and my eyes can water. Scripts arrive from my agent, Roxane, via email so you can be anywhere when the phone goes ‘bing’. Being sent any new script is exciting. I can’t help but immediately start reading it, if only a few pages to get a sense of it. If the first couple of pages are good, all verbal hell can break loose. I’ve been on a bus, taxiing on a plane, walking the dog and been heard to say too loudly “Holy f**k, this is great!”. Then your job becomes to convince those involved to actually ask you to do it. If the email also says, “they’d love to offer you the role of ‘x’” then break out the party streamers. Even on the bus.

What’s the best script you’ve read?

ALISTAIR PETRIE: Utopia by Dennis Kelly which we did for Channel 4 was pretty astonishing. The skill, of course, is for a director not to mess it up. With Marc Munden at the helm, that was never going to happen. The Night Manager was hugely seductive too, again marshaled wonderfully by the incomparable Susanne Bier. I read a play years ago called, I think, Prince On A White Bike that a regional theatre was doing. it was written by a first time writer in his eighties who had always wanted to write a play but didn’t have the courage. I cried when I read it partly because of the piece but partly for being denied future brilliant work by such an amazing writer.

Deep State will soon be returning – what can we expect from the upcoming second series?

ALISTAIR PETRIE: It goes big; bigger than season one, both thematically and in its scale. Set two years before and six months after the events of season one. The mighty Walton Goggins joins as does Victoria Hamilton, Alexander Siddig and a vast new talent, Lily Banda. We spent two and half months in Cape Town and then moved to Southern Morroco on the Algerian Border and the Northern Sahara. It’s very, very good and I’m hugely proud of it.

An action-packed trailer for Hellboy was released just recently – did you get the chance to work with CGI? How did you find the experience?

ALISTAIR PETRIE: You don’t so much work with CGI rather than work without it. It feels the bigger the CGI they will do in post production the more daft it can feel on the day you shoot the ‘live’ bit of the sequence. But the job is to get over that and go for it; believe it and make it happen. Special effects wizards and the director describe what it will eventually look like and you fill in the gaps. So you have a picture in your head and then dive in. The result, and I’ve seen bits of a CGI heavy sequence we did in Hellboy, is breathtaking. My son is studying Special Effects at University and what a magnificent playground he’s entering.

Are you a comic book fan?

ALISTAIR PETRIE: As a kid living in the Middle East, access to TV and film were sparse so comics were my way of finding stories. All sorts, from Tintin through to X Men and Batman and beyond. Having done Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, my character, General Draven, features in the Marvel Star Wars Comics. It’s huge thrill, I’ve bought dozens of editions.

Is there one character trait which unites all three of your upcoming roles?

ALISTAIR PETRIE: If I combined them all into one, he’d be a gun-toting, dancing chocoholic, who frequents sex clubs, drives a Lamborghini and knows ten names for Marijuana. All three wear a tie at some point.