Grant Gillespie

Grant Gillespies an actor novelist and screenwriter living in the West End of London Onscreen hes appeared in numerous productions including Kingsman 2 Florence Foster Jenkins Will Catastrophe Siblings The Crown George Gently Victoria and Cast Offs On stage hes worked with the celebrated directors Jamie Lloyd Michael Grandage Stephen Unwin and Erica Whyman Hes done MOCAP work at The Imaginarium Squadron 42 and voices for computer games Bloodborne and Dark Souls His novel The Cuckoo Boy was described as an emotionally visceral debut Guardian Through James and David Gillespie explores the chasm between how children and adults perceive the world and the devastating consequences of falling through this gap The Cuckoo Boy is a savage indictment of hypocrisy and forced social convention Observer His short story The Upper Hand published by Simon Schuster in He Played For His Wife and Other Stories also features Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy Grant also writes screentheatre and radio plays Harvest cowritten with Kate Ashfield is on the slate at Kate Lewis and Julia Walshs production company Neon Ink