Jonathan Hyde
Jonathan Hyde was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on May 21st, 1948 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 75, Jonathan Hyde biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Jonathan Stephen Geoffrey King, known as Jonathan “Nash” Hyde (born 21 May 1948), is an Australian-born English actor, known for roles such as Herbert Cadbury in Richie Rich, J. Bruce Ismay in the 1997 film Titanic, Culverton Smith in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Warren Westridge in Anaconda, Sam Parrish and Van Pelt in Jumanji, and Eldritch Palmer in the FX TV series The Strain.
Early life
Hyde was born in Brisbane, Queensland, to a middle-class family. His father was Stephen Geoffrey King, a solicitor. Hyde's interest in law took him to university to study the subject but his passion for performing and the theatre led him to pursue a career in acting. Leaving for London in 1969, he was awarded a coveted place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and won the Bancroft Gold Medal for excellence in his graduating year of 1972. In a 2007 interview with The Age, Hyde said he didn't make a conscious decision to lose his Australian accent after moving to Britain, and that it still "comes and goes."
Personal life
Hyde married Scottish soprano Isobel Buchanan in 1980. The couple have two daughters, one of whom is actress Georgia King.
Career
Hyde is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In an 1985 production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, he appeared Ferdinand among other roles. He was the original cast member of Not the Nine O'Clock News, the first series of which was halted from airing after the 1979 General Election. In The Mummy, Joseph Bruce Ismay, the managing director of the White Star Line in Titanic, Egyptologist Allen Chamberlain, and Sam Parrish/Van Pelt, the hunter in Jumanji. He has appeared in several films, including The Contract, The Curse of King Tut's Tomb, Land of the Blind, The Tailor of Panama, Sherlock Holmes, and The Case of the Silk Stocking, Eisenstein, and Anaconda.
In 1989's BBC miniseries Shadow of the Noose, in which he played barrister Edward Marshall Hall, he appeared. He has appeared in several television mysteries, including the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett, in which Hyde played Culverton Smith and Midsomer Murders as Frank Smythe-Webster.
In 2007, Hyde appeared in Chekhov's The Seagull and the Earl of Kent in King Lear as part of a repertory company starring Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Romola Garnt, and Sylvester McCoy. Both actors appeared on tour throughout the world before taking up residence in the New London Theatre. The last performance was on January 12, 2008. In King Lear's 2008 television film, he reprised his role as Kent.
Hyde played Ilya Gavrik, a Russian Minister, in the last series of BBC's famous programme Spooks.
In the West End production of The King's Speech at Wyndham's Theatre, Hyde appeared as Lionel Logue, the King's speech therapist.
He appeared in the FX TV series The Strain from 2014 to 2017.