The English actor Philip Glenister is most familiar to the domestic audience by his roles in the TV series Dust to Dust and Life on Mars.
short biography
Philip was born on February 10, 1963 in London, in the family of television director John Glenister and Joan Glenister. He has an older brother Robert, who also chose the acting profession for himself. On the maternal side, they have Welsh roots.
Philip graduated from Hatch End High School. After that, he worked as a film writer until the age of 23. Then, under the influence of the wife of his brother, actress Amanda Redman, he became interested in cinema. She trained him and helped with admission to the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he subsequently studied acting.
It is known that Glenister Philip is a fan of golf and has won 12 handicaps. In addition, he enjoys football and is a fan of Arsenal and the national team of his hometown, Weldston.
The actor founded his own charitable foundation in the city of Kingston-on-Thames, which provides assistance to children with cancer.
Personal life
Actors are creative people, fickle and always in sight. At the same time, they are often very close to the attention of the press, moreover, they are actively encouraging him. However, Philip Glenister belongs to a different category of people. He speaks reluctantly of his personal life with reporters. With the choice of life partner, he decided in 2006, it became a colleague in the acting department, Beth Goddard. The couple brings up two daughters.
Start and career development
Glenister began acting on television in the early 90s of the last century. In this decade, he took part in many television projects, but only in secondary roles. These were the series “Overseer”, “Throw the Dead Donkey”, “Bergerac”, “Detectives”, “Law and Disorder”, “Blue Sky”, “Mute Witness” and many others. The most prominent was the role of William Dobbin in the Vanity Fair (1998) and the minibus driver in Roger Roger.
In the 2000s, Glenister Philip continued to work on television. During this period, he took part in more than 20 projects, including several feature films. The most significant are the series “The Big Game”, “Iceland at War” and “Cranford”.
The actor found universal popularity in the mid-2000s. In 2006-2007 the series “Life on Mars” is released, in which Glenister participates with John Simm. The story continued in the sequel “Dust to Dust”.
Philip Glenister: a complete filmography
Glenister is mainly filmed on television. His film career is limited to six feature films of various genres.
Premiere for him was an episodic role in the project of director Phil Davis "Identity Card" (1995). The film about football hooligans has become a cult for troubled fans of this type of team sport and is considered one of the best in this genre.
In 2003, the actor was invited to a small role in the famous comedy Nigel Cole's "Girls from the Calendar." The plot of the film is based on the real story of women from Yorkshire who decided to earn money for the study of leukemia in a very unusual way.
In 2005, Philip Glenister joined the cast of the historical epic directed by Ridley Scott, The Kingdom of Heaven, about events preceding the Third Crusade - the war between the Ayyubids and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, as well as the siege of Jerusalem.
In 2008, the actor was approved for one of the main roles in the low-budget action movie directed by Sasha Bennett about the robbery of a British bank committed in the 1980s. The plot revolves around a daring attempt to steal a large emerald by several groups of thieves at once. This is a story about which of them is lucky to leave with profit, and who will answer in all severity of the law for the crime committed. The picture was shot in 16 days, she did not receive wide coverage among the audience.
Subsequently, the actor played episodic roles in Woody Allen’s melodramatic comedy “You Will Meet the Mysterious Stranger” (2010) and in the drama directed by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormrod “Dear Friend” (2012).
At the moment, these are all films. Philip Glenister prefers a large screen television and a wide range of viewers are most familiar with the series.
