Greg Wise Movies and Career Information

Greg Wise (born 15 May 1966) is an English actor. He has appeared in many British television works, as well as several feature films (notably the role of John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility). He was born Matthew Gregory Wise to architect parents in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England was educated at the independent St Peter's School in York. He went to Heriot Watt university to study architecture. Greg then moved to Glasgow where he studied drama at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He then travelled in the Far East. His television work includes three BBC period dramas: The Moonstone with Keeley Hawes, Madame Bovary with Frances O'Connor and as Lord Charles Maulver in the 2007 five-part series Cranford. In 1999 he starred as Marshall in ITV's seven-part drama Wonderful You alongside his future mother-in-law Phyllida Law and future brother-in-law Richard Lumsden. Recently he filmed a number of readings of love scenes from a selection of classic and modern love scenes, from Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles to Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss for The Carte Noire Readers. He has been married to Emma Thompson, who played Elinor in Sense and