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Gregory Paul Martin
Born	(1957-01-21) 21 January 1957 (age 68) Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
Nationality	British
Other names	Greg Martin Greg Martyn Gregory Martyn Gregory Martin
Alma mater	RADA
Occupation(s)	Writer; television, film and stage actor

Gregory Paul Martin (born 21 January 1957) is a British writer/producer and actor of stage, film and television. He is the eldest son of Beatles producer Sir George Martin and the half-brother of the music producer Giles Martin.

Early life and education

Martin was born in 1957 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. He is the son and second child of Sir George Martin and his first wife, Sheena (née Chisholm). George Martin left his wife and two children in 1962, when Gregory was five, in order to remarry.

Martin grew up in Hatfield and attended St Albans School, graduating in 1975.

He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, graduating in 1977.

Career

Theatre

Martin's acting roles in the British theater include the world premiere of Bent (1979), at the Royal Court Theatre in London with Sir Ian McKellen, a season at the Bristol Old Vic, a season at London's Old Vic, and a season at London's Young Vic.

His American theater credits include the title role in Hamlet at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, and the title role of Peer Gynt at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, as well as the American premier of Harold Pinter's Other Places, at The Manhattan Theater Club in New York City.

Television

Martin starred opposite Faye Dunaway and Richard Burton in the 1984 CBS miniseries Ellis Island. He also made appearances in a number of television series of the 1980s–1990s, including Murder, She Wrote, Sliders, Babylon 5, and Mad About You.

Film

Martin appeared in the movie Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992), alongside Chevy Chase and Daryl Hannah, and A Walk in the Clouds, opposite Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn.

Production company

In 2014 Martin launched a film production company, King of Kings Worldwide, in the UK.

Writing

Martin is also a screenwriter. While in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s he wrote and sold two Hollywood screenplays, but the films did not end up getting produced.

Following a failed whirlwind engagement to socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson in 1999 that made headlines, Martin penned a tongue-in-cheek send-up of his romantic life titled Dirty Rotten Scoundrel. In the book's online retail product description, he stated "I wrote this book as a satire of an ugly image foisted on me by the British tabloids during the summer of 1999, and was never intended to be taken seriously. I take it as an oddly flattering compliment people assumed the character was really me."

Martin is a professional astrologer as well. In early 2019 he published the book Watch It Come Down, detailing a death-and-rebirth cycle of the United States.

Personal life

Martin has been married to his wife Cherie since 2012. He has a son, Connor, born in 1992 from a previous marriage, who lives in the U.S.

Filmography

Film

Television

Bibliography

• Martin, Greg (2000). Dirty Rotten Scoundrel. John Blake Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85782-324-0.
• Martin, Gregory Paul (2019). Watch It Come Down: Human Consciousness, Astrology, and the Death and Rebirth of America. ISBN 1795043164.

References

1. ^ Birth Registry, Hatfield Registration District, County of Hertfordshire, January–March 1957, Volume 4B. p. 73.
2. His own book 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrel', pg. 2, holds date and time of birth. A later reference in the same book, of 21 January 2000, states that he is 43 years old on that date. The book by Mark Lewisohn 'Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years' mentions his birth in January 1957. Data snippets of both books are found at Astrodatabank.
3. ^ Espiner, Mark (29 June 2001). "Sounds and vision". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
4. Lewisohn, Mark (2013). Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years. Crown Archetype. p. 264.
5. Badshah, Nadeem (21 September 2016). "George Martin's children embroiled in war of words over will". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
6. ^ Durrant, Sabine (26 March 2000). "Confessions of a cad: Greg Martin". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
7. ^ Myerson, Julie (15 August 2013). "Madonna, Tara, the Love Rat and me". The Independent. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
8. Information from archivist at St Albans School Archive.
9. "Greg Martin". RADA. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
10. "Bent at the Royal Court Theatre". Royal Court Theatre. Archived from the original on 5 February 2013.
11. Hodges, Benjamin A. (2003). Forbidden Acts: Pioneering Gay & Lesbian Plays of the Twentieth Century. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 523.
12. Jenkins, Garry (1994). Daniel Day-Lewis: The Fire Within. Sidgwick & Jackson. p. 277.
13. Llorente, Isabel Guerrero (2017). "Festival Shakespeare: Celebrating the Plays on the Stage" (PDF). Digitum.UM.es. University of Murcia. p. 311. Retrieved 30 October 2021. Cast. Roďert O'Mahoney, James Cairncross, William Hoyland, Clive Wood, Greg Martyn, Daniel Day Lewis, Jonathan Kent, ...
14. A Midsummer Night's Dream. London: Old Vic. June–July 1980.
15. "Search results for creator: 'Dunlop. Frank'". WorldShakesBib.org. Folger Shakespeare Library. Venue: Produced at the Young Vic, London, 1976. ... Simon Chandler (Edgar), Greg Martin (Edmund), Andrew Robertson (Fool), Michael Rodden (King of France)
16. "Mainstage Season Closes With Hamlet". The Agnes Scott Profile. Agnes Scott College. 18 April 1986. p. 6. Retrieved 31 October 2021. The Alliance Theatre Company will present Hamlet on the Mainstage through May 3, 1986. ... In the role of Hamlet is Gregory Martyn.
17. Willis, John A. (1987). John Willis' Theatre World, Volume 42. Crown Publishers. p. 140.
18. Beck, Kirsten (1983). Cultivating the Wasteland: Can Cable Put the Vision Back in TV?. American Council for the Arts. p. 162. 'The Guthrie was so enthusiastic about our cooperation with them on the calendar that now we're working on a number of projects for our system. ...' Below, the young Peer Gynt played by Greg Martin in Part 1.
19. "Pinter's Other Places: entertainment for the minimalist" (PDF). Summit Herald. 21 April 1984. p. 5. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
20. Pinter, Harold (1984). Other Places: Four Plays. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. p. 6.
21. "King of Kings Worldwide Ltd". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
22. Dirty Rotten Scoundrel. "Product description: From the Author". Amazon UK. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
23. ^ "Book Review: 'Watch It Come Down' by Gregory Paul Martin". Beatles-Freak.com. 3 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
24. "Wedding Sonnet For Cherie 25.12.2012". Facebook. The Bubbly Bon Vivant (Cherie Rose Martin). 6 July 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
25. "Tara's dangerous liaison ends in tears". Irish Independent. 29 August 1999. Retrieved 31 October 2021.

External links

• Gregory Paul Martin at IMDb
• Official site

• Use dmy dates from May 2013
• 1957 births
• Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
• British astrologers
• British male film actors
• British male stage actors
• British male television actors
• George Martin
• Living people
• People educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire
• 20th-century astrologers
• 21st-century astrologers