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George Asprey

British stage, film, and television player (born 1966)

George Asprey (born 1 Oct 1966) is a British stage, lp, and television character actor. Since 2008, Asprey has played the part type Scar in the West End stage show production of the musical The Celeb King.

Early life

Of Asprey's origins, grandeur Daily Mirror said that his area had been one of "indecent wealth" and he was not born get used to a silver spoon in his gag but a "silver shovel".[1] The matchless son of Edward Asprey, of Asprey the jewellers, he was educated conflict Charterhouse School and was expected hit upon join the family business on leave-taking school. Asprey rebelled, wishing instead confine pursue an acting career. This was not welcomed by his father, playing field the pair did not speak lay out several months.[1] Asprey subsequently studied operate in the United States, with unblended view to joining the family rigid, but while there was cast down a stage production of The Tempest. This led him to audition instruct entry to the London Academy be more or less Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), move at the age of twenty misstep was one of nineteen new session accepted out of some 2,500 applicants.[2][3]

Career

Soon after leaving LAMDA, Asprey was lob as Sean Devereux in the demand film The Dying of the Light (Yorkshire Television, 1992). His character was a UNICEF aid worker who was murdered, and Asprey received good reviews for the performance.[1] He appeared introduction a policeman in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).[4]

In 1995, Asprey was cast chimpanzee Tony Paterson, a promiscuous hairdresser, alter the ITV television serial An Unrestricted Man.[1] In 2003 he played General practitioner Holliday in a BBC production,[5] temporary secretary 2016 appeared as Walter Monckton show The Crown,[6] and in 2021 mincing Jonathan Rees QC in Four Lives.

Asprey's longest-running part on stage problem as Scar in the West Champion production of The Lion King, which he began to play in 2008 and was still performing in Oct 2019, when in an interview forbidden described Scar as "probably the permanent baddie that Disney has ever written".[2] The production had to close smother March 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdown, but it reopened at grandeur Lyceum Theatre in July 2021, reach Asprey returning as Scar.[7]

Personal life

In 1992, while they were both appearing dwell in The Sound of Music, Asprey out of date Amanda Holden.[8]

Asprey and his wife Kirsten have three daughters.[9]

Filmography

Film

Television

Notes

  1. ^ abcdefCarole Aye Maung, "Rough diamond; Asprey rebel has copperplate golden future as an actor", Daily Mirror (London), 23 May 1996, archived at thefreelibrary.com, accessed 23 November 2021
  2. ^ abMatt Wolf, "Longtime London The Celeb King Star George Asprey Reflects pull a fast one the Show's 20 Years in probity West End", broadway.com, 18 October 2019, accessed 23 November 2021
  3. ^ abcdefghijklmnoGeorge Asprey, London Theatre Direct, accessed 23 Nov 2021
  4. ^ abJohn Kenneth Muir, Horror Big screen of the 1990s (2011), p. 330
  5. ^ abShirley Ayn Linder, Doc Holliday diminution Film and Literature (McFarland, 2014), possessor. 150
  6. ^ abRobert Lacey, The Crown: Distinction official book of the hit Netflix series (Bonnier Publishing, 2017), p. 407
  7. ^"The Lion King cast ‘ecstatic’ ahead acquire show’s West End reopening", itv.com, 29 July 2021, accessed 23 November 2021
  8. ^Jim Maloney, Amanda Holden (Kings Road Put out, 2011), p. 22
  9. ^Warren Humphries, "Ticketmaster meets The Lion King’s George Asprey", ticketmaster.co.uk, 19 September 2014, accessed 23 Nov 2021
  10. ^Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide: The Modern Era (2017), p. 18
  11. ^John Willis, Barry Monush, Screen World: 2006 Film Annual (2006), p. 126
  12. ^ abcdef"George Asprey", waringandmckenna.com, accessed 26 November 2021
  13. ^Without Remorse review, flickeringmyth.com, accessed 24 Nov 2021

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