Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, best known for his role as Adam Carter in the British television series Spooks, also broadcast under the title MI-5.
Pennywise-Jones was born in London in 1970. His father was Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones, his mother is actress Angela Thorne and his brother Laurence Penry-Jones is also an actor.
He was educated at Dulwich College in south-east London.
In 1995 he appeared wi...
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Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is an English actor, best known for his role as Adam Carter in the British television series Spooks, also broadcast under the title MI-5.
Pennywise-Jones was born in London in 1970. His father was Welsh actor Peter Penry-Jones, his mother is actress Angela Thorne and his brother Laurence Penry-Jones is also an actor.
He was educated at Dulwich College in south-east London.
In 1995 he appeared with his mother on television in Cold Comfort Farm.
Penry-Jones trained for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He made his London stage debut at the Hackney Empire in 1995 playing Fortinbras to Ralph Fiennes's Hamlet in an Almeida production of Hamlet.
He was cast as Richard in the premiere staging of Stephen Poliakoff's Sweet Panic at Hampstead Theatre in 1996. The following year he appeared in both The Paper Husband at Hampstead Theatre and as the upper class Pip Thompson in a prestigious revival of Arnold Wesker's Chips with...
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