Curiosidades

Sometimes gives walking tours of "Theatrical London."

Petherbridge is married to actress Emily Richard, with whom he costarred in The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby (on stage in London and New York, and in the TV miniseries); the play The Busman's Honeymoon; and Pomp and Circumstance.

Has twice been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play): in 1982, for playing Newman Noggs in "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby," a role he recreated in the television version with the same title, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982); and in 1985 for playing Charles Marsden in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," a role he also recreated in the television version with the same title, Interlúdio (1988).

He was on the shortlist for Lord Trimingham (played by Edward Fox) in O Mensageiro (1971).

Currently filming Midsomer Murders. (maio de 2007)

In 2011, he published an autobiographical anthology of essays, poems and artwork under the title 'Slim Chances and Unscheduled Appearances' with a foreword by Sir Ian McKellen.

Best known on TV as the snooty sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey in the Dorothy L Sayers Mysteries.

Petherbridge trained as an actor at Esme Church's Northern Theatre School.

A founding member with Ian McKellen of the Actors' Company in 1972. In 1985, he and McKellen set up the McKellen-Petherbridge Group at the Royal National Theatre .

Also noted as a painter in a variety of media, he held his first art exhibition at Burgh House in Hampstead in 2011. His painting 'The Conductor', which depicts his brother Bill on point duty outside the Bradford Alhambra, circa 1946, was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

The younger son of William and Hannah Petherbridge.

Winner of the Olivier and London Theatre Critics' Awards for his role as Charlie Marsden in Strange Interlude.

Enjoyed lengthy tenures at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre.

Made his professional stage debut at the Ludlow Festival in 1956, playing Gaveston in Marlowe's Edward II.

He was a conscientious objector during National Service call-ups in the 1950s..

His book, Slim Chances and Unscheduled Appearances was published in 201 and launched with a sell-out Platform at the National Theatre. At the same time he held his first art exhibition at Burgh House in Hampstead.

Petherbridge has performed in stage musicals, including The Woman in White, Lost in the Stars, The Fantasticks, Coco, and, most recently, a musical version of The Importance of Being Earnest.

In 2007 Petherbridge suffered two strokes while preparing to star in a production of King Lear. He later fictionalised the experience in the play My Perfect Mind, co-written with Paul Hunter.

Acting in the play The Fantasticks, Duchess Theatre, London. (maio de 2010)

Attended Newby Primary School in West Bowling, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England as a child.