| Rupert Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970, London) is an British actor, best known for his role as Adam Carter in the British television series Spooks. Family life His 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 dated singer Kylie Minogue for 9 months in 1999. He is now married to actress Dervla Kirwan in August 2007 after a 3 year engagement. Dervla had given birth to their daughter Florence on 1 May 2004. Their second child a son, Peter was born 8 April 2006. He and Kirwan met in a theatre production in 2001. Both appeared in Casanova in 2005, although they did not share any scenes. Theatre career Rupert 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. Film and television career - The 39 Steps (TV) - Richard Hannay
- Whitechapel (TV) (post-production) - DI Chandler
- Burn Up (mini) TV mini-series (post-production) - Tom McConnell
- Top Gear (TV) Appeared Alongside Peter Firth As Themselves in Star in A Reasonably Priced Car on the 2nd episode of series 11 first broadcast 29 June 2008
- Joe's Palace (TV) - Richard Reece
- Persuasion (TV) - Captain Wentworth
- Krakatoa - The Last Days (TV) - Willem Beijerinck
- Match Point - Henry
- Casanova (TV) - Grimani
- Spooks - Adam Carter
- Won, ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Best Actor, 2008
- Poirot - Roddy Welman(1 episode)
- Cambridge Spies (TV) - Donald Maclean
- A Family Man - Tarquin
- The Four Feathers - Willoughby
- Charlotte Gray - Peter Gregory
- North Square - Alex Hay (8 episodes)
- Virtual Sexuality - Jake
- Still Crazy - Young Ray
- Hilary and Jackie - Piers
- The Tribe - Dietrich
- Food of Love - Head office
- Bent - Guard on road
- Jane Eyre (TV) - St John Rivers
- The Student Prince (TV) - The Prince
- The Moth (TV) - Stanley Thorman
- Faith in the Future - Sam (2 episodes)
- The Ring (TV) - Gerhard von Gotthard
- Cold Lazarus (TV mini-series) - Policeman/Militiaman
- Kavanagh QC - Lt. Ralph Kinross (1 episode)
- Absolutely Fabulous - Boy at Party (1 episode)
- Cold Comfort Farm (TV) - Dick Hawk-Monitor
- Fatherland (TV) - SS Cadet Hermann Jost
- Black Beauty - Wild-looking Young Man
- French and Saunders (1 episode)
References - Theatre Record and its annual Indexes
- Allen, Katie (2008-10-06). "Rankin and P D James pick up ITV3 awards". theBookseller.com. Retrieved on 2008-10-06.
External links - Rupert Penry-Jones at the Internet Movie Database
- Rupert Penry-Jones at the bbc.co.uk official Spooks website.
- Rupert Penry-Jones Online
- Rupert Penry-Jones interview: Sunday Times 15 June 2008
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