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Matthew Gregory Wise, born 1966, is an English actor and producer. He has appeared in several British television programmes and feature films. He played the role of
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'', which also starred Emma Thompson, whom he later married.


Early life and education

Wise was born on 15 May 1966 in
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to architect parents Douglass Wise and Yvonne Jeannine Czeiler. He was educated at the independent St Peter's School,
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. He went to Heriot-Watt University in
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to study architecture and performed at
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. Wise studied drama at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.


Career

His first professional job was on stage, starring in ''Good Rockin' Tonight'', a musical based on TV producer Jack Good's life. His television work includes four
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period dramas: ''
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'' with
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, '' The Buccaneers'' alongside
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, ''
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'' with Frances O'Connor, ''
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'' in 1992 and 1993, and as Sir Charles Maulver in the 2007 five-part series '' Cranford''. In 1999 he starred as Marshall in
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's seven-part drama '' Wonderful You'' alongside his future mother-in-law
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and future brother-in-law
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. He filmed a number of readings of love scenes from a selection of classic and modern love scenes, from Thomas Hardy's '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' to
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's ''
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'' for The Carte Noire Readers. In 2011, he appeared in
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's ''Honeymoon for One'', starring
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. He is also the producer of the 2010 BBC/ Masterpiece production ''
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'' starring his wife, actress Emma Thompson, and
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. In February 2015, Wise made his theatrical return starring in
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's ''Kill Me Now'' at the Park Theatre in
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, London. In July 2015, he played the role of emotionally distanced father Gilbert Aldridge in the BBC's two-part television adaptation of
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’ debut novel ''The Outcast''. Wise portrayed Lord Louis Mountbatten in series 1 and 2 (2016/17) of
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's ''
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''. Wise won the celebrity version of ''
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'' in aid of
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in 2019. In 2021, Wise was a contestant on nineteenth series of '' Strictly Come Dancing''. He was partnered with
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and the couple were eliminated in the fourth week.


Personal life

Wise has been in a relationship with actress Emma Thompson since 1995, when they met on the set of ''Sense and Sensibility''. Their daughter Gaia was conceived through
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and was born in 1999. They married in 2003, and that same year, they informally adopted Tindyebwa Agaba, a Rwandan orphan and former child soldier.


Filmography


Film


Television


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wise, Greg 1966 births Living people 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors Alumni of Heriot-Watt University Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland English male film actors English male television actors Male actors from Newcastle upon Tyne People educated at St Peter's School, York