Anthony Green (actor)
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| Born | 4 April 1970 Blackburn, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
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Anthony Green is a British actor.
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[edit] Early Life
Anthony Green was born on April 4, 1970 in Blackburn, East Lancashire UK. He began acting at the age of 6, playing The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz at Daisyfield Primary School. At St Mary's College in Blackburn he played Oscar Lindquist in Sweet Charity. He continued to act while studying law at Nottingham University, playing John Proctor in The Crucible, Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger and I in a stage adaptation of Withnail and I. At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival he played Sheriff Baldwin Rawel in Richard Davidson's Storybook which won a Fringe First and was nominated for the Independent Theatre Award.[1]
[edit] Career
In film, he played the leading role of Jonathan Berkoff, opposite Emily Lloyd, in the independent British feature The Honeytrap[2]. He has also played parts in The Bourne Identity and the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.
He took the central role of Michael, in Amit Gupta's short film Love Story, with Colin Salmon, Shelley Conn and Alan Mckenna, about a man's journey to find true love. It was shown at a number of film festivals across the United States and Europe and won the Verizon Audience Award at the Indo-American Arts Festival in New York. [3]
He has done lead roles in two American TV movies: Captain Grozny, an American Army Captain, in Sony Pictures' Anaconda 3: The Offspring, which co-stars David Hasselhoff, and Israel Hands, in Hallmark's Blackbeard, which features Angus Macfadyen in the title role.
He played series regular lead roles in the PBS/Carlton co-production of Cadfael, playing Lord Hugh Beringar, opposite Sir Derek Jacobi, and in the A&E/BBC co-production of The Scarlet Pimpernel, playing Sir Andrew Foulkes, opposite Richard E. Grant. He was Station Officer Mick Callaghan in the series finale of London's Burning [4], and DCI Belmarsh in Beech Is Back, a special series of The Bill.
Television guest leads include If...The Oil Runs Out, Where the Heart Is (Series I and VII), Big Bad World, Wycliffe, and Wing and a Prayer. In Bonekickers he portrayed a fictional Roman character Marcus Quintanus opposite Shauna Macdonald's non-fictional Boudica. Both actors playing their parts in Latin.
