Peter de Jersey
Peter SMJ de Jersey (* 1965 in London-Southwark ) is a British theater and film actor . He is particularly known from Shakespeare productions, including repeated productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), as well as from various television series.
Career
In The Bill he played Jerome Taylor, from 2000 to 2003 he played Steve Waring in Holby City until his serial death. He has also appeared in Dalziel and Pascoe , Doctors and New Tricks (episode Father's Pride , along with former Holby City colleague Jeremy Sheffield ).
As an ensemble member of the Royal Shakespeare Company , he appeared in various plays between 1992 and 2009, including As You Like It (as Orlando alongside Samantha Bond's Rosalind), Hamlet (as Horatio alongside David Tennant's Hamlet; also in the 2009 RSC film ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (as Oberon ). He had previously staged Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace with the ensemble of the National Theater and played the role of Antiochus (the Great) in Believe In What You Will . His performance has been praised by theater critics. In National, he was also seen in Rough Crossings , the Caryl Phillips theater adaptation of the novel by Simon Schama .
In 2008 he appeared in the role of Michael X in the film The Bank Job . In the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus (2013-14) he took on the role of General Cominius. At the Novello Theater (also West End ) he played Cooper in Tennessee Williams ' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof alongside James Earl Jones , Phylicia Rashad and Adrian Lester . On November 23, 2013, the 50th anniversary of the science fiction series Doctor Who , Peter de Jersey had a guest appearance in the internationally broadcast 3D cinema special The Day of the Doctor as Time Lord Androgar. In eight episodes of the drama series Broadchurch (2013, 2015, 2017), de Jersey was again in front of the camera alongside David Tennant after Hamlet (2009) . He played there in all three seasons the crime scene investigator ("SOCO" = Scenes of Crime Officer; see SpuSi ) Brian Young.
Plays (selection)
| year | Play | role | stage | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | As You Like It | Orlando |
Royal Shakespeare Theater (RSC Theater in Stratford ) |
Productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) with Samantha Bond , Alan Cox , Adrian Lukis , Alfred Burke , Jonathan Cake and others; Directed by David Thacker |
| 1993 |
Barbican Theater (RSC Theater in London ) |
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| 1995 |
The Music Man (Musical by Meredith Willson) |
Open Air Theater ( Regent's Park , London) |
New Shakespeare Company productions starring Graham McTavish , Natascha McElhone , Toyah Willcox , Brian Cox , Liz Robertson, and others; Directed by Brian Cox, John Doyle, and Ian Talbot |
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| Richard III | ||||
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Oberon | |||
| 2008-2009 | Hamlet | Horatio | Royal Shakespeare Theater (Stratford-upon-Avon) |
Royal Shakespeare Company production with David Tennant , Patrick Stewart , Oliver Ford Davies , Ryan Gage, and others; Director: Gregory Doran ; Filmed in 2009 |
| ? | A Midsummer Night's Dream | ? | ? | Productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company |
| Hamlet | ||||
| Sejanus: His case | ||||
| Believe what you will | ||||
| A New Way to Please You | ||||
| The Last Days of Don Juan | ||||
| King Lear | ||||
| Troilus and Cressida | ||||
| Richard II | ||||
| As You Like It | ||||
| The Odyssey | ||||
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | ||||
| Antony and Cleopatra | ||||
| Macbeth | Production of the Odyssey Theater | |||
| Hamlet | Cheek by Jowl | |||
| Romeo and Juliet | Tour Ensemble ( USA ) | |||
| Macbeth | ||||
| Someone to Watch Over Me | Theatr Clywd | |||
| Richard III | Open air theater | |||
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | ||||
| The illusion | Royal Exchange | |||
| Wuthering Heights | No. 1 touring ensemble | |||
| Rough Crossings | Headlong Theater Production | |||
| War and Peace | National Theater | Royal National Theater Company productions | ||
| The Darker Face of the Earth | ||||
| Troilus and Cressida | ||||
| The Merchant of Venice | ||||
| Rough Crossings | ||||
| Believe In What You Will | Antiochus the Great | |||
| Cat on a hot tin roof | cooper | Novello Theater | with James Earl Jones , Phylicia Rashad and Adrian Lester | |
| Coriolanus | General Cominius | Donmar Warehouse | Donmar warehouse production |
Filmography (selection)
- 1990-2004: The Bill (TV series, 17 episodes, four different roles)
- 1995: The Choir ( miniseries , parts 3 and 4)
- 2000: Urban Gothic (TV series, episode "Cry Wolf")
- 2000: Out of Depth
- 2000: The Price of Crime (TV series, episode 4x01)
- 2000–2003: Holby City (TV series, 67 episodes)
- 2001: Masterpiece Theater (TV series, piece: The Merchant of Venice )
- 2003-2006: Doctors (TV series, episodes "Back to Basics" 2003 and "No Smoke" 2006)
- 2004: Waking the Dead (TV series, double episode "False Flag")
- 2005: Dalziel and Pascoe (TV series, double episode "Dead Meat")
- 2006: Sugar Rush (TV series, episodes 2x03–2x05)
- 2007: Instinct (TV movie)
- 2007: New Tricks - The Crime Specialists (TV series, episode "Father's Pride")
- 2008: Bank job
- 2009: Hamlet ( RSC / BBC television film)
- 2011: Without You (Miniseries, Part 1)
- 2012: Silk - Robes made of silk (TV series, episode 2x04)
- 2012: Simon Shama's Shakespeare (miniseries, parts of "Hollow Crowns" and "This England")
- 2012: The Hollow Crown (TV series, episode "Richard II")
- 2013: Coronation Street (TV series, episodes 8046-8048)
- 2013: The Bible (documentary miniseries, part "Homeland")
- 2013: Lightfields (miniseries, part 5)
- 2013: The Day of the Doctor ( The Day of the Doctor , 3D cinema special for the 50th anniversary of the TV series Doctor Who )
- 2013-2017: Broadchurch (TV series, eight episodes)
- 2014: Secrets of the Dead (documentary series, episode "The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone", narrator's voice)
- 2014: National Theater Live: Coriolanus
- 2014–2015: Atlantis (TV series, 10 episodes, 2x01–2x12)
- 2015: The Smoke (TV series, episode 1x05)
- 2015: Exposed (TV movie)
- 2015: AD: Rebels and Martyrs (TV series, episode "The Wrath")
- 2015: Doctor Foster (TV series, episodes 1x01, 1x02 and 1x04)
- 2015: Lewis - The Oxford Crime (double episode 9x05–9x06 "What Lies Tangled")
- 2015: Catastrophe (TV series, episode 2x04)
- 2016: Agatha Raisin (TV series, episode 1x07 "Witch of Wyckhadden")
- 2016: National Theater Live: The Threepenny Opera
Video games
- 2011: Rasuto sutôrî (voice of Arganan)
- 2013: Total War: Rome II (voice)
- 2013: Killzone: Mercenary (various additional voices)
- 2014: Alien: Isolation (voice)
- 2015: Assassin's Creed : Syndicate (various additional voices)
- 2015: Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Jack the Ripper (voice)
- 2016: Total War: Warhammer (voice of Karl Franz)
- 2017: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III (voice of Captain Balthazar and various Space Marines)
Web links
- Peter de Jersey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Review in the British Theater Guide
- Info on the RSC homepage
- Review in the Guardian
Individual evidence
- ↑ De Jersey on findmypast.co.uk
- ↑ Theater review | Cat On a Hot Tin Roof | Novello, London | Stage | The guardian . Retrieved May 15, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Peter de Jersey Actor biography on the homepage of the Royal Shakespeare Company . Retrieved November 24, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Jersey, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Jersey, Peter SMJ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British theater and film actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London Southwark |