Greg Wise Biography – Greg Wise Wiki
Greg Wise (born Matthew Gregory Wise) is an English actor and producer who has appeared in a number of British television programmes and feature films. He played the role of John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility, which also starred Emma Thompson, whom he later married. In 2021, he is set to compete in the nineteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing. He is taking part as a tribute to his sister who died from cancer in 2016 and was a lover of dance. He won the celebrity version of The Great British Bake Off in aid of Stand Up to Cancer in 2019.
His first professional job was on stage, starring in Good Rockin’ Tonight, a musical based on television producer Jack Good’s life. His television work includes four BBC period dramas: The Moonstone with Keeley Hawes, The Buccaneers alongside Carla Gugino, Madame Bovary with Frances O’Connor, The Riff-Raff Element in 1992, and 1993, and as Sir Charles Maulver in the 2007 five-part series Cranford.
In 1999 he starred as Marshall in ITV’s seven-part drama Wonderful You alongside his future mother-in-law Phyllida Law and future brother-in-law Richard Lumsden. 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 Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss for The Carte Noire Readers. In 2011, he featured in Hallmark Channel’s Honeymoon for One, starring Nicollette Sheridan.
He is also the producer of the 2010 BBC/Masterpiece production The Song of Lunch starring his wife, actress Emma Thompson, and Alan Rickman.
In February 2015, he made his theatrical comeback starring in Brad Fraser’s Kill Me Now at Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, London. In July 2015, he took the role of an emotionally distanced father Gilbert Aldridge in the BBC’s two-part television adaptation of Sadie Jones’ debut novel The Outcast.
He went to study at the independent St Peter’s School, York. He went to Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh to study architecture and performed at Bedlam Theatre. He studied drama at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Greg Wise Age
He was born on May 15, 1966, in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Greg Wise Wife
He is married to his wife actress Emma Thompson. They had been in a relationship since 1995 when they met on the set of Sense and Sensibility. Their daughter Gaia was born in 1999 and was conceived through IVF. They married in 2003.
Greg Wise Children
He is a father of two children. His adopted child, Tindyebwa Agaba Wise who was a Rwandan orphan and former child soldier. He grew up to be a human rights lawyer. With his wife Emma, they share a daughter named Gaia Romilly Wise who was born in 1999 and was conceived through IVF. Gaia is an actress.
Greg Wise Family/ Parents
He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne to architect parents Douglass Wise and Yvonne Jeannine Czeiler. He also had a sister, Clare Wise who was a film producer. She died on September 13, 2016, of cancer.
Greg Wise Height
He stands at a listed height of 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 meters) tall.
