Jonathan Hyde
Born: 21st
May 1948; Brisbane, Australia
Nationality: Australian Height: 5' 11" (1.80 m) Spouse(s): Isobel Buchanan Children: 2 daughters Character in Spooks: Ilya Gavrik Jonathan Hyde was born in Brisbane, Queensland to an average middle-class family. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and is an Associate Member there. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Among other roles, he played Ferdinand in a 1985 production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. He was an original cast member of Not the Nine O'Clock News, the first series of which was pulled from broadcast because of the General Election of 1979. He played the butler in Richie Rich, J. Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the White Star Line in Titanic, Egyptologist Allen Chamberlain in The Mummy and Sam Parrish/Van Pelt, the hunter in Jumanji. He has been in numerous films including The Contract, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Land of the Blind, The Tailor of Panama, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, Eisenstein and Anaconda. |
He appeared in the 1989 BBC miniseries Shadow of the Noose in which he played barrister Edward Marshall
Hall. In 2011, he starred in the final series of Spooks, playing Ilya Gavrik, a Russian Minister. He has also
appeared in several television mysteries, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett and Midsomer Murders as Frank
Smythe-Webster.
In 2007, he played Dr. Dorn in Chekhov's The Seagull and the Earl of Kent in King Lear for the RSC in a repertory company that included Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Romola Garai, William Gaunt and Sylvester McCoy. Both plays toured together internationally, before taking up residence in the New London Theatre. The final performance was on 12 January 2008. He reprised his role of Kent in the 2008 television film of King Lear.
Jonathan appeared as Lionel Logue, the King's speech therapist in the West End production of The King's Speech at Wyndham's Theatre.
He also appeared on the rap supergroup Westside Connection's first studio album Bow Down on the intro on the album
In June 2013 he completed an acclaimed sold-out run of Travels with my Aunt at the Menier Chocolate Factory. In September 2013 he will begin filming The Strain for FX, directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Hyde is married to Scottish soprano Isobel Buchanan. The couple have two daughters, one of whom is actress Georgia King.
You can find a full filmography for Jonathan Hyde at IMDb.
In 2007, he played Dr. Dorn in Chekhov's The Seagull and the Earl of Kent in King Lear for the RSC in a repertory company that included Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Romola Garai, William Gaunt and Sylvester McCoy. Both plays toured together internationally, before taking up residence in the New London Theatre. The final performance was on 12 January 2008. He reprised his role of Kent in the 2008 television film of King Lear.
Jonathan appeared as Lionel Logue, the King's speech therapist in the West End production of The King's Speech at Wyndham's Theatre.
He also appeared on the rap supergroup Westside Connection's first studio album Bow Down on the intro on the album
In June 2013 he completed an acclaimed sold-out run of Travels with my Aunt at the Menier Chocolate Factory. In September 2013 he will begin filming The Strain for FX, directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Hyde is married to Scottish soprano Isobel Buchanan. The couple have two daughters, one of whom is actress Georgia King.
You can find a full filmography for Jonathan Hyde at IMDb.