Sean Pertwee

Sean Pertwee
Born	4 June 1964 (1964-06-04) London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1975–present
Spouse	Jacqui Hamilton-Smith (1999-present) 2 children

Sean Pertwee (born 4 June 1964) is an English actor known for his television, film and voice-over work.

Education

Pertwee attended Teddington School, Broom Road, Teddington, London.

Career

In the early 1980s, he auditioned for a place at the Surrey County Youth Theatre where he was cast as Captain Fitzpatrick in the play Tom Jones, based on the novel by Henry Fielding. He played alongside Alex Kingston as Mrs Fitzpatrick and Wayne (Tom) Davison as the School Master Thwackum.

After leaving Sunbury College, Pertwee trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and, after graduating in 1986, toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company for three years. He co-owned the Natural Nylon film production company along with Sadie Frost, Jude Law, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewan McGregor. The company folded in 2003.

Pertwee starred in the 2008 film Doomsday as Doctor Talbot. His voice is frequently heard in a variety of television commercials, documentaries and video games, including the medieval empire-building computer game Medieval: Total War and futuristic war games Killzone (as Colonel Gregor Hakha), Killzone 2 (as Colonel Mael Radec) and Fire Warrior (as Governor Severus). He is also the voice behind the Northeast's tourism advertisement which started broadcasting at the start of 2009. He is the current narrator of Masterchef: The Professionals, replacing India Fisher for the fourth series which began on 7 November, 2011.

Sean is presently working on the film Devil's Playground, a zombie horror film directed by Mark McQueen. He stars along side Danny Dyer (Severance), Jaime Murray (Hustle, Dexter), Janet Montgomery (The Hills Run Red, Wrong Turn 3), Craig Fairbrass, Shane Taylor, Craig Conway, Steven Berkoff, Lisa McAllister, Bart Ruspoli, Del Henney and Jack Healy. The film was due to be released October 2010.

Pertwee is to appear in the upcoming Nazi zombie film The 4th Reich that is to start shooting in spring 2010, directed by Shaun Smith.

In 2010 Sean Pertwee appeared in a Party political broadcast in support of the Labour Party.

In 2011 Pertwee became the voiceover for series 4 of 'Masterchef: The Professionals'.

Sean's recent dramatic work for BBC Radio 4 includes playing the actor Oliver Reed - in the play "Burning Both Ends - When Oliver Reed met Keith Moon." by Matthew Broughton. [1]

Family

Pertwee was born in London but then soon moved to the town of Stockton-on-Tees at the age of twelve years old, the son of Ingeborg and Jon Pertwee, who played the third incarnation of The Doctor in the television series Doctor Who. He is also the brother of British television actress Dariel Pertwee, grandson of actor/screenwriter Roland Pertwee and more distantly related to actor Bill Pertwee. When David Tennant announced that he would depart from Doctor Who in 2010, Pertwee, himself a fan of the series, was one of the many who expressed interest in becoming the new Doctor (the role ultimately went to Matt Smith).

Pertwee married make-up artist Jacqui Hamilton-Smith, daughter of Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn, on 12 June 1999, at the House of Lords. Jacqui gave birth to twin sons, Alfred and Gilbert, around Christmas 2001. They were born prematurely and Gilbert died in April 2002. Pertwee has said that Alfred is a fan of Doctor Who, both of Tennant's Tenth Doctor and of his father's Third Doctor.

Filmography

• Coping with Cupid (1991)
• London Kills Me (1991)
• Leon the Pig Farmer (1992)
• Dirty Weekend (1993)
• Swing Kids (1993)
• Shopping (1994)
• Blue Juice (1995)
• I.D. (1995)
• Deadly Voyage (1996)
• Event Horizon (1997)
• Soldier (1998)
• Tale of the Mummy (1998)
• Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
• Five Seconds to Spare (1999)
• Love, Honour and Obey (2000)
• Seven Days to Live (2000)
• The 51st State (2001)
• Equilibrium (2002)
• Dog Soldiers (2002)
• Goal! (2005)
• The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby (2005)
• The Prophecy: Uprising (2005)
• The Last Drop (2005)
• Renaissance (2006)
• Wilderness (2006)
• Dangerous Parking (2007)
• Goal! 2: Living the Dream...
• When Evil Calls (2007)
• Botched (2007)
• Doomsday (2008)
• Mutant Chronicles (2008)
• 4.3.2.1 (2010)
• Just for the Record (2010)
• Ultramarines: The Movie (2010)
• The Devil's Playground (2010)
• Heaven and Earth (2010) (in pre-production)
• Four (2010) (in post-production)
• The 4th Reich (2010) (in pre-production)
• Vuosaari (2012)
• U.F.O. (2013) (filming)

Television

• Billy Smart's Children's Circus (1975)
• Boon (1986) in episode "Whispering Grass"
• Poirot: The King of Clubs (1989)
• Chancer (1990)
• Harry Enfield's Television Programme (1990)
• Virtual Murder (1992) in episode "Dreams Imagic"
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992) in episode "Germany"
• Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (1992)
• A Touch of Frost (1992) in episode "Quarry"
• Peak Practice (1993) in episode "Hope to Die"
• Cadfael (1994 season)
• Bodyguards (1997)
• Macbeth (1998)
• Operation Good Guys (2000) in episode "The Leader"
• Cold Feet (2001 and 2003)
• Waking The Dead (2003)
• A Bear's Tail (2005)
• Marple: The Moving Finger (2006)
• Ancient Rome–The Rise And Fall Of An Empire: Caesar (2006) – as Julius Caesar
• The Tudors (2007)
• Honest (2008) as Sergeant Bain
• Skins (2008)
• Law & Order: UK (2009)
• Luther (2010)
• Camelot (2011)

Video games

• Medieval: Total War (2002) - Narrator
• Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior (2003) - Governor Severus
• Killzone (2004) - Colonel Gregor Hakha
• Fable II (2008) - Additional Voices
• Killzone 2 (2009) - Colonel Mael Radec
• Fable III (2011) - Captain Saker

External links

• Sean Pertwee at the Internet Movie Database