Adrian Lukis

Adrian Lukis (born March 28, 1957 in Birmingham ) is a British theater and film actor .

Life

Adrian Lukis was born in Birmingham in 1957. He then moved with his family to Australia , where he grew up in Adelaide . When he was nine years old, the family returned to England , where Lukis went to school in Devon . He then studied drama at the University of Hull , where director Anthony Minghella was one of his lecturers. Lukis then went abroad for almost three years. He traveled through Australia and Southeast Asia and returned to England in the early 1980s. At the Drama Studio in Ealing , he took an additional acting course for a year. He made his theatrical debut at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1982 in the play Something Wicked This Way Comes , an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel Evil Comes on Quiet Shoes .

In order to secure himself financially, he appeared regularly on British television from the late 1980s, including in Caribbean Affair , an episode of the Miss Marple television series . From 1992 to 1993 he performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and London.

He is internationally known for his portrayal of the hypocritical George Wickham in the BBC television multi-parter Pride and Prejudice (1995) with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth . From 1997 to 1999 he then played the role of Dr. Shearer in 35 episodes of the television series Peak Practice . After that, he also got small supporting roles in cinema productions, such as 7 seconds (2005) or Nightwatching (2007); but he continued to play the theater. In 2001 he played the title role of Shakespeare's Macbeth in Salisbury . In 2004 he played a manic-depressive drug addict in Cloaca by Maria Goos at the Old Vic Theater , directed by Kevin Spacey . In 2005 he played the C. K. Dexter Haven in the play The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry, alongside Jennifer Ehle in the role of Tracy Lord .

He has a daughter with his wife Michelle. They live together in London.

Filmography (selection)

• 1987: Dutch Girls (TV movie)
• 1989: Campion (TV series, two episodes)
• 1989: After the War (TV miniseries)
• 1989: Miss Marple - A Caribbean Mystery (TV series)
• 1991: The Strauss dynasty ( The Strauss Dynasty ) (TV miniseries)
• 1994: Citizen Locke (TV movie)
• 1995: Prime Suspect - The Lost Child ( Prime Suspect: The Lost Child ) (TV series)
• 1995: Chandler & Co (TV series, five episodes)
• 1995: Pride and Prejudice ( Pride and Prejudice ) (TV miniseries)
• 1997–1999: Peak Practice (TV series, 35 episodes)
• 1999: The Trench
• 2001: Young Blades
• 2001: My Best Friend ( Me Without You )
• 2003: Down to Earth (TV series, two episodes)
• 2003: Too Good to Be True (TV movie)
• 2004: Inspector Barnaby ( Midsomer Murders ) (TV series, an episode)
• 2004: Spooks - In the Sight of MI5 ( Spooks ) (TV series, episode)
• 2005: 7 seconds ( 7 Seconds )
• 2005–2006: Judge John Deed (TV series, eight episodes)
• 2006: The Bill
• 2007: The Price of Crime ( Trial & Retribution ) (TV series, one episode)
• 2007: Nightwatching
• 2007: Jihad in the City ( Britz ) (TV movie)
• 2009: Lewis - The Oxford Crime ( Lewis ) (TV series, episode)
• 2009: Nine Miles Down
• 2009: Personal Affairs (TV series, two episodes)
• 2009–2012: Doctors (TV series, two episodes)
• 2010: Rosamunde Pilcher - Four Women ( This September ) (TV series)
• 2011: Victim
• 2012: Forensic specialist Dr. Leo Dalton ( Silent Witness ) (TV series, two episodes)
• 2012: Bert & Dickie
• 2012: City Slacker
• 2013: Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV series, one episode)
• 2014: Inspector Barnaby ( Midsomer Murders ) (TV series, one episode)
• 2014: Silk - Robes made of silk ( Silk ) (TV series, an episode)
• 2015: Death in Paradise (TV series, one episode)
• 2015: New Tricks - Die Krimispezialisten ( New Tricks ) (TV series, two episodes)
• 2015: Downton Abbey (TV series, episode)
• 2015–2016: X Company (TV series, seven episodes)
• 2016: Bedrag (TV series, one episode)
• 2016: Black Mirror (TV series, episode)

Theater appearances (selection)

• 1989–1990: Heroes ( Arms and the Man ) - as Sergius Saranoff, Manchester
• 1992-1993: All's Well That Ends Well ( All's Well That Ends Well ) - as Dumaine, Royal Shakespeare Company
• 1992-1993: As You Like It ( As You Like It ) - Oliver, Royal Shakespeare Company
• 1992–1993: The School of Night - as Thomas Kyd, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon and London
• 1996: Tolstoy - London
• 1999: Sleep With Me - Royal National Theater , London
• 2000: Gone to LA - Hampstead Theater, London
• 2000: Beach Wedding - Southampton
• 2001: Macbeth - as Macbeth, Salisbury
• 2001: Helping Harry - London
• 2001: The Relapse - Royal National Theater
• 2002: The Front Page - Chichester
• 2002: Dead Funny - Chichester
• 2003-2004: Dinner - West End
• 2004: Cloaca - Old Vic Theater , London
• 2005: The Philadelphia Story - as CK Dexter Haven, Old Vic Theater, London

Web links

• Adrian Lukis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Adrian Lukis on comcast.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Mark Shenton: 20 Questions With… Adrian Lukis  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: What's on Stage , June 27, 2005.