Gregory Paul Martin
Biography
An actor/writer/producer/director in film, television, and the theater, Gregory Paul Martin trained at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, his career as an actor including performances alongside Daniel Day Lewis, Ian McKellen, and the world premiere of Harold Pinter’s ‘One For The Road’ at The Manhattan Theater Club in America. He played the title roles in ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Peer Gynt’ at the Guthrie Theatre, going head to head with Pierce Brosnan for the role of James Bond, later starring in the mini-series ‘Ellis Island’ with Richard Burton, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, and Faye Dunaway, as well as movies such as ‘A Walk In The Clouds’ with Keanu Reeves, ‘Memoirs Of An Invisible Man’ with Daryl Hannah, Sam Neil, and Michael MacLean, and the Ellen Degeneres sitcom, ‘Ellen’.
Having sold several spec screenplays to major Hollywood studios and producers, in 2018 he launched his own film, television, and theatre production company, King of Kings Worldwide, a venture that will produce a revolutionary slate of projects over the next decade, all of which he will be authoring — ‘One’, a theater/film project inspired by the catalogue of U2; ‘The Circus’, the “Mad Men of rock n roll” for television; ‘Tsar Lear’, an adaptation of Shakespeare's ‘King Lear’ set in Tsarist Russia, starring Gerard Depardieu, and Marion Cottilard, directed by the most famous Russian director of our times, Alexander Sokurov; ‘Werewolves of London’, a spoof of the werewolf horror genre starring Ben Stiller and Steve Coogan; ‘Strange Days’, a dark comedy about Jim Morrison of The Doors, starring Jim Carrey; ‘Alt Earth’, a dystopian sci-fi TV series; and ‘Redemption’, a serial killer thriller Mr. Martin describes as ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ meets ‘The Shining’.
The author of a satirical memoir which he will be performing as a one-man show in NYC and London, Gregory just published two novels together with one about astrology, ‘Watch It Come Down’, detailing Trump’s inevitable fall and the rebirth of America as described in the astrological charts of both Trump and the U.S.A. His wife, Cherie Rose Martin is a Luxury Lifestyle Travel Designer. She and Mr. Martin divide their time between their homes in Cannes, Paris, New York, and Kauai with their superstar Jack Russell, JR
**IMDb Mini Biography By: Gregory Paul Martin**
A writer/producer in film, television and theater, 2017 marks the launch of Gregory's U.K. production company, King of Kings Worldwide at the Cannes Film Festival. On King of King's production slate for 2017/2018 are four feature films and two TV series -- Tsar Lear, an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear set in 19th c. Tsarist Russia, Strange Days, a dark comedy about Jim Morrison of The Doors, Werewolves of London, a horror/comedy, Redemption, a serial killer thriller, and Majic and The Circus for television -- the former a low-tech sci-fi thriller about the end of the world, and the latter a drama/comedy with original music inspired by Mr. Martin's experiences growing up in the eye of the storm of The Beatles. His substantial career as an actor has included the title roles in Hamlet and Peer Gynt, the starring role in a CBS mini-series alongside Richard Burton, Faye Dunaway and Liam Neeson, and a series of acclaimed performances on stage in London and New York alongside fellows actors Daniel Day-Lewis and Kevin Spacey. He continues to act, and is developing two one-man shows for performances in New York 2018/2019.
Spouses:
Cherie Grassi (25 December 2012 - present)
Natasha Mackenzie (1990 - 1994) (divorced) (1 child)
Having sold several spec screenplays to major Hollywood studios and producers, in 2018 he launched his own film, television, and theatre production company, King of Kings Worldwide, a venture that will produce a revolutionary slate of projects over the next decade, all of which he will be authoring — ‘One’, a theater/film project inspired by the catalogue of U2; ‘The Circus’, the “Mad Men of rock n roll” for television; ‘Tsar Lear’, an adaptation of Shakespeare's ‘King Lear’ set in Tsarist Russia, starring Gerard Depardieu, and Marion Cottilard, directed by the most famous Russian director of our times, Alexander Sokurov; ‘Werewolves of London’, a spoof of the werewolf horror genre starring Ben Stiller and Steve Coogan; ‘Strange Days’, a dark comedy about Jim Morrison of The Doors, starring Jim Carrey; ‘Alt Earth’, a dystopian sci-fi TV series; and ‘Redemption’, a serial killer thriller Mr. Martin describes as ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ meets ‘The Shining’.
The author of a satirical memoir which he will be performing as a one-man show in NYC and London, Gregory just published two novels together with one about astrology, ‘Watch It Come Down’, detailing Trump’s inevitable fall and the rebirth of America as described in the astrological charts of both Trump and the U.S.A. His wife, Cherie Rose Martin is a Luxury Lifestyle Travel Designer. She and Mr. Martin divide their time between their homes in Cannes, Paris, New York, and Kauai with their superstar Jack Russell, JR
**IMDb Mini Biography By: Gregory Paul Martin**
A writer/producer in film, television and theater, 2017 marks the launch of Gregory's U.K. production company, King of Kings Worldwide at the Cannes Film Festival. On King of King's production slate for 2017/2018 are four feature films and two TV series -- Tsar Lear, an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear set in 19th c. Tsarist Russia, Strange Days, a dark comedy about Jim Morrison of The Doors, Werewolves of London, a horror/comedy, Redemption, a serial killer thriller, and Majic and The Circus for television -- the former a low-tech sci-fi thriller about the end of the world, and the latter a drama/comedy with original music inspired by Mr. Martin's experiences growing up in the eye of the storm of The Beatles. His substantial career as an actor has included the title roles in Hamlet and Peer Gynt, the starring role in a CBS mini-series alongside Richard Burton, Faye Dunaway and Liam Neeson, and a series of acclaimed performances on stage in London and New York alongside fellows actors Daniel Day-Lewis and Kevin Spacey. He continues to act, and is developing two one-man shows for performances in New York 2018/2019.
Spouses:
Cherie Grassi (25 December 2012 - present)
Natasha Mackenzie (1990 - 1994) (divorced) (1 child)
Books by Gregory Paul Martin
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