Robert Bathurst

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Robert Guy Bathurst born 22 February 1957 is an English actor Bathurst was born in the Gold Coast in 1957 where his father was working as a management consultant His family moved to Dublin Ireland in 1959 and Bathurst was enrolled at an Anglican boarding school In 1966 the family moved to England and Bathurst transferred to another boarding school where he took up amateur dramatics At the age of 18 he read law at the University of Cambridge and joined the Cambridge Footlights group After graduating he took up acting full time He made his professional stage debut in 1983 playing Tim Allgood in Michael Frayns Noises Off which ran for a year at the Savoy Theatre To broaden his knowledge of working on stage he joined the National Theatre He supplemented his stage roles in the 1980s with television roles appearing in comedies such as the aborted pilot episode of Blackadder The Lenny Henry Show and the first episode of Red Dwarf In 1991 he won his first major television role playing Mark Taylor in Steven Moffats semiautobiographical BBC sitcom Joking Apart Although only thirteen episodes were made between 1991 and 1995 the role remains Bathursts favourite of his whole career After Joking Apart concluded he was cast as pompous management consultant David Marsden in the ITV comedy drama Cold Feet which ran for five series from 1998 to 2003 Since 2003 Bathurst has played a fictional prime minister in the BBC sitcom My Dads the Prime Minister Mark Thatcher in the factbased drama Coup and a man whose daughter goes missing in the ITV thriller The Stepfather He also made a return to theatre roles playing Vershinin in The Three Sisters 2003 Adrien in the twohander Members Only 2006 government whip Alistair in Whipping it Up 20062007 and Alex in Alex 2007 2008 In 2010 he starred in the The Pillars of the Earth and had a recurring role in Downton Abbey Bathurst appeared in in his first Noël Coward play Present Laughter in 2010 and followed it with a role in Blithe Spirit in 2010 and 2011 He is married and has four children Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Bathurst licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia