Rupert Penry-Jones Bio, Age, Wife, Movies and TV Shows.

Rupert Penry-Jones Biography

Rupert Penry-Jones (Rupert William Penry-Jones) is an English actor, known for his roles as Adam Carter in the BBC One spy drama series Spooks, Clive Reader QC in the BBC One legal drama Silk, policeman DI Joseph Chandler in the ITV murder mystery series Whitechapel, and Mr. Quinlan in the FX horror series The Strain.

Rupert Penry-Jones Age

Penry-Jones was born on September 22, 1970, in London, England. He is 48 years old as of September 2018.

Rupert Penry-Jones family

Penry-Jones was born and raised by his parents Peter Penry-Jones and Angela Thorne alongside his brother Laurence Penry-Jones. His father was a Welsh actor and his mother an English actor. His brother is an actor turned ambulance driver who is married to actress Polly Walker.

Rupert Penry-Jones Wife

Penry-Jones married Irish actress Dervla Kirwan in August 2007 after a three-year engagement. They have two children together.

Rupert Penry-Jones height

Penry-Jones has a height of 1.87 meters.

Rupert Penry-Jones Education

Penry-Jones was studied at Dulwich College in Dulwich, London, until age 17 when he was enrolled at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, only to be expelled in his second year for being a bad influence.

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Rupert Penry-Jones Career

In 1995, Penry-Jones appeared with his mother on television in Cold Comfort Farm.

He made his London stage debut at the Hackney Empire theatre in 1995 playing Fortinbras to Ralph Fiennes’s Hamlet in an Almeida production of Hamlet.

He was cast as Richard in the premiere staging of Stephen Poliakoff’s Sweet Panic at Hampstead Theatre in 1996. In 1997 he appeared in both The Paper Husband at Hampstead Theatre and as the upper-class Pip Thompson in a revival of Arnold Wesker’s Chips with Everything on the Lyttelton stage at the Royal National Theatre.

In 1998, he created the role of the Boy in Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby at the Almeida Theatre. In 1999, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, playing the lead role in Don Carlos at The Other Place theatre and Alcibiades in Timon of Athens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Both productions transferred to the Barbican Centre in London in 2000, where his portrayal as Don Carlos won the Ian Charleson Award.

At the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in 2001 he was cast as Robert Caplan in J.B. Priestley’s thriller “time-play” Dangerous Corner alongside Dervla Kirwan, who played the role of Olwen Peel. The production then transferred for a four-month run at the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End.

From July to October 2003 at the National’s Cottesloe Theatre he played the leading role of Louis XIV in Nick Dear’s historical drama Power.

He returned to the theatre at the end of 2009 playing the role of Carl in Michael Wynne’s new play The Priory at the Royal Court Theatre, London, from 19 November 2009 to 16 January 2010.

On television, he has played the role of barrister Alex Hay in C4’s ten-part serial North Square in 2000; Donald McLean in the BBC’s four-part production of Cambridge Spies in 2003; and Grimani in Russell T. Davies’ production of Casanova in 2005.

In 2004, he joined the cast in series 3 of the BBC’s BAFTA-winning series Spooks. He played the lead role of section leader Adam Carter for four series before leaving the show in 2008. He won ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards for his role in Spooks in 2008. He also played the role of Captain Wentworth in ITV’s adaptation of Persuasion.

In 2008, he starred along with Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell in Burn Up playing an oil executive who becomes embroiled in the politics surrounding global warming and oil stocks.

He portrayed Richard Hannay in the BBC adaptation of The 39 Steps which was screened at Christmas 2008.

In 2009, he was cast as the lead character in the unaired ABC pilot The Forgotten but was unceremoniously replaced when the pilot was picked up and replaced by Christian Slater. Penry-Jones was apparently devastated and proceeded to give a number of interviews in the UK in which he attacked the US television industry. He has since described American television as a “factory” and the producers as “disgusting”.

In February 2009, he took the lead role in an ITV drama, Whitechapel, a three-part thriller based on the copycat killings of Jack the Ripper. Whitechapel was the highest-performing new drama in 2009. A second series of the show based around the Kray twins was broadcast in autumn 2010; the third series started in January 2012. The fourth and last series aired in September 2013, and no further series were commissioned due to poor ratings.

He was scheduled to appear opposite other celebrities in Soccer Aid 2010, but broke a bone in his knee during training, putting him in a plaster cast and ruling him out of the final match on 6 June 2010.

Penry-Jones was also cast alonfg with Maxine Peake in a legal drama Silk created by Peter Moffat. The show revolves around two barristers, played by Penry-Jones and Peake who are competing to become QCs. Series 2 aired in 2012 and Series 3 premiered on 24 February 2014.

He also joined the cast of the film A Little Chaos with Kate Winslet as Antoine. The film was directed by Alan Rickman.

Penry-Jones is known to be very critical of the British television and film industry. He stated that Doctor Who is a “very good children’s show… but has low production values…and is a pantomime”. He also said the Harry Potter films are “shit”. He admitted walking out of the first three films.

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