Charley Boorman
Charley Boorman was born in Wimbledon, England, United Kingdom on August 23rd, 1966 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 57, Charley Boorman biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Charley Boorman (born 23 August 1966) is an English TV presenter, travel writer and actor.
He is known for his enthusiasm for motorbikes, as demonstrated in several documentaries of his travels, including two with his friend, actor Ewan McGregor.
Early life and background
Born in Wimbledon, London, Boorman spent much of his formative years in County Wicklow, Ireland. Boorman is the son of German costume designer Christel Kruse and film director John Boorman. Lee Marvin, a lifelong friend of his father, was Charley's godfather.
Boorman attended three schools in Ireland: St Gerard's School (Bray, County Wicklow) and St Oliver Plunkett Primary School (Monkstown, County Dublin), both Roman Catholic schools, the latter a school dedicated to teaching children with dyslexia. He also attended the German-language medium school, St Kilians Deutsche Schule (Dublin). In England, he went on to attend Sibford School, a Quaker school near Banbury, Oxfordshire (from 1980 to 1983).
He and his wife Olivia have two daughters and live in London.
Acting career
Boorman began acting in films directed by his father at an early age. In Deliverance (1972), his first role was in delivery (1972).
In Excalibur (1981), Boorman was a young Mordred (joined by his older sister Katrine Boorman who played Ygraine, Mordred's grandmother), and later in 1985, he was a leading figure in The Emerald Forest. He was in 1987 in a non-speaking role as a young German Luftwaffe pilot escorting into wartime London, having been shot down in Hope and Glory (his sister Katrine appeared in the film).
The Serpent's Kiss (1997), on which he met Ewan McGregor, and The Bunker (2001), among other acting appearances, include The Serpent's Kiss (1997).
Presenting career
In 2004, Ewan McGregor and Boorman decided to embark on an epic journey, taking them from London to New York City, which culminated in the hit television show Long Way Round, an international motorbike ride from London to New York City via Europe and Asia. This was shot and later developed into a television series, book, and DVD. The series was seen around the world, and DVD and book became best sellers.
Boorman participated in the 2006 Dakar Rally, as a producer, Russ Malkin (from Long Way Round) and a motorbike team. On Sky2 in the United Kingdom, the event was shot and the series Race to Dakar began in October 2006. During the run, Boorman injured himself and was forced to withdraw from the sport after five days.
He began a new journey with McGregor in 2007, a trip from John o' Groats, Scotland, to Cape Town, South Africa. This was first broadcast on BBC2 in October 2007. It became public knowledge that Boorman's wife was receiving pneumonia treatment, but that he should complete the trip during this first series.
Boorman started By Any Means in 2008, which soon became famous in County Wicklow, before ending in Sydney. He set out to complete the journey "by any means," by using local transportation that is appropriate to the area being traveled and only using air travel when necessary.
Boorman undertook a trip titled Right to the Edge: traveling from Sydney to Tokyo via the Pacific Rim in 2009. On BBC2 in the United Kingdom, the trip tracing this journey was shown.
In Series 1 of the BBC TV series World's Most Dangerous Roads: Alaska, Boorman and Sue Perkins appeared together, in which they rode the Dalton Highway in 2011.
For Channel 5, Charley Boorman's Extreme Frontiers, Boorman produced a prime-time adventure series in 2011. This was Boorman and producer-director Russ Malkin's third collaboration, who made frequent on-screen appearances. Extreme Frontiers claimed to have "take in all four extremities of Canada." The book and DVD were accompanied by the host.
Boorman continued the series in a South African setting in 2012. Boorman and his crew rode around South Africa from 9 June to August 2012, riding two motorbikes and a 4-wheel vehicle.
On Channel 5, Boorman and Malkin's return to the United States ended in 2013. He begins in Hawaii, then to Alaska, then to the Eastern seaboard and then to the Southern states, inland to the Gulf of Mexico, and then to the Rockies, finishing on the Pacific Coast at Los Angeles.
Boorman and McGregor rode from the southernmost point of South America to Los Angeles, California, using Harley-Davidson LiveWire motorbikes, while Claudio von Planta, their Swiss cameraman from the previous Long Way series, shadows them on a petrol powered motorcycle.