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Rupert Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970, London) is a British actor, best known for his role as Adam Carter in the British television series Spooks.
[edit] Family lifeHis father is actor Peter Penry-Jones, his mother is actress Angela Thorne. His brother Laurence Penry-Jones is also an actor. He was educated at Dulwich College in south-east London. In 1995 he appeared with his mother on television in Cold Comfort Farm. He married actress Dervla Kirwan in August 2007 after a three-year engagement. Kirwan had given birth to their daughter, Florence, on 1 May 2004. Their second child, Peter, was born 8 April 2006. He and Kirwan met in a theatre production, Dangerous Corner, in 2001. Both appeared in Casanova in 2005, although they did not share any scenes. [edit] CareerPenry-Jones trained for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He made his London stage debut at the Hackney Empire in 1995 playing Fortinbras to Ralph Fiennes' 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. The following year he appeared in both The Paper Husband at Hampstead Theatre and as the upper-class Pip Thompson in a prestigious 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 RSC at Stratford upon Avon, playing the title role in Don Carlos at The Other Place, and Alcibiades in Timon of Athens at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Both productions transferred to the Barbican Centre in 2000, his performance as Don Carlos winning him 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, opposite Dervla Kirwan who played Olwen Peel. The production then successfully 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. In 2008, he starred with Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell in Burn Up playing an oil executive who became embroiled in the politics surrounding global warming and oil stocks. He played Richard Hannay in the BBC adaptation of The 39 Steps which was screened at Christmas 2008. In February 2009, he starred as the lead in an ITV drama, Whitechapel, a three part thriller based on a the copycat killings of Jack The Ripper. A second series of the show based around the Kray Twins was commissioned in September 2009 with filming scheduled for 2010. He is currently appearing in The Priory at the Royal Court Theatre, London from 19 November 2009 to 9 January 2010. [edit] Filmography
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