Alexander Martin Clunes OBE DL (born 28 November 1961) is an English actor, comedian, director, and television presenter. He is best known for portraying Martin Ellingham in the ITV comedy-drama series Doc Martin and Gary Strang in Men Behaving Badly.
Meet Amanda Clunes
There is no information about Martin Clunes’ sister Amanda Clunes. Maybe he has decided to keep it away from the public. Clunes has narrated several documentaries for ITV, the first of which was Islands of Britain in 2009.
Martin has since presented several documentaries centered on animals. He has also voiced Kipper the Dog in the animated series Kipper. Clunes’s first marriage was to actress Lucy Aston in 1990.
They divorced in 1997 and Clunes married future Doc Martin producer Philippa Braithwaite late that year. In 1999, Braithwaite gave birth to their daughter Emily. As of 2013, Clunes and his family live in Beaminster, Dorset, where they run a farm with heavy horses.
Clunes served his first role in rep at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, and his first television appearance was in an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard for the BBC Play of the Month in 1982, followed by the Doctor Who story Snakedance in 1983.