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Early career

Born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, the son of Norman and Joyce Stevenson, after leaving school, Lindsay enrolled in the drama department of a technical college in Nottingham, and intended to become a drama teacher. However, friends at Nottingham Playhouse encouraged him to apply to RADA, and in 1968 he was accepted there with the aid of a government grant.^[1] After he graduated, he took a job as a dialect coach for a repertory company in Essex, and then joined a regional theatre group Ilkeston is a town in Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England, on the River Erewash. ... Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... For other uses, see Nottingham (disambiguation). ... The Nottingham Playhouse is a theatre in Nottingham. ... RADAs theatre in London The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in Bloomsbury, London, is considered to be one of the most prestigious drama schools in the world. ... For other meanings of Essex, see Essex (disambiguation). ...

Lindsay first came to prominence as the cockney layabout Jakey Smith in ITV comedy series Get Some In!, and was then given the starring role as incompetent revolutionary Wolfie Smith in the BBC sitcom Citizen Smith. He followed this with roles in a number of the BBC Television Shakespeare productions, including Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and as Edmund in King Lear opposite Lord Laurence Olivier in 1984. However it is notable he did take part in an obscure Radio 4 show, What Are You Talking About?, in the early 1980s between Television Shakespeare productions, in an attempt to establish a comedy career. Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... Get Some In! was a British television series about life in RAF National Service broadcast between 1975 and 1978 by Thames Television. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... This article is about a genre of comedy. ... Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. ... The BBC Television Shakespeare was a set of television adaptations of the plays of Shakespeare, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985. ... Title page of the first quarto (1600) Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ... King Lear and the Fool in the Storm by William Dyce (1806-1864) King Lear is a play by William Shakespeare, considered one of his greatest tragedies, based on the legend of King Lear of Britain. ... Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM, (IPA: ; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ... What Are You Talking About? was a short-lived British comedy series that aired on BBC Radio 4 in 1982, starring Steve Oxford and Robert Lindsay. ...

Stage career

Lindsay enjoyed a successful stage career, especially during the 1980s, including lead roles in several significant Shakespearean productions. He starred in the 1984 revival of Me and My Girl in London and on Broadway, netting a Laurence Olivier Award and a Tony Award in the category of Best Actor in a Musical (against competition that included Colm Wilkinson and Terrence Mann in Les Mis in both cases). He won another Olivier Award in the same category in 1997, for his portrayal of Fagin in the revival of Oliver!. He starred in a production of The Entertainer at the Old Vic in 2007. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Me and My Girl is a popular British stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... The Laurence Olivier Awards, previously known as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, were renamed in honour of British actor Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier in 1984, having first been established in 1976. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Colm Wilkinson’s life is surrounded by music. ... Terrence Mann (born Terrance Vaughan Mann on July 1, 1951 in Kentucky) is a prominent singer and actor who has dominated the Broadway stage for the past two decades. ... Les Misérables (pronunciation ), colloquially known as Les Mis, is a musical composed in 1980 by French composer Claude-Michel Schönberg on a libretto by Alain Boublil. ... An etching by George Cruikshank titled Fagin in the condemned Cell, November 1838. ... Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. ... The Entertainer was a 1960 film which told the story of a failing stage performer who tried to keep his career going even as his personal life fell apart. ... The exterior of the Old Vic from the corner of Baylis Road and Waterloo Road. ...

1980s and 1990s

Lindsay's success on Broadway and in the West End lead to the starring role in the film Bert Rigby, You're a Fool, although it was not a commercial success. However, he continued to enjoy success on television, and in 1991 played the leading role in Alan Bleasdale's dark comedy serial G.B.H., for which he won a BAFTA for his performance. He also starred in the surreal Channel 4 sitcom Nightingales, and appeared in the films Fierce Creatures and Divorcing Jack. In 1998 he was cast in the recurring role of Captain Pellew in the ITV mini-series Hornblower, based on the novels of C.S. Forester. He was also the original choice for the lead role in the drama Cracker, but turned the part down as he didn't want to become too associated with heavyweight, darker drama characters. He later appeared as Fagin in the 1999 ITV Oliver Twist miniseries. For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre... Bert Rigby, Youre a Fool is a 1989 American musical film directed by Carl Reiner, and starring Robert Lindsay in the title role. ... Alan Bleasdale (born March 23, 1946 in Liverpool, England, UK) is a British television dramatist, best known for several powerful social drama serials based around the lives of ordinary people. ... G.B.H. was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale, made by independent production company G.B.H (Films) and shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4, and repeated in July-August 2006 on More4. ... The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTAs or, to differentiate them from the BAFTA Film Awards, the BAFTA Television Awards, are the most prestigious awards given in the British television industry, analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States. ... This article is about the British television station. ... Nightingales was an unusual British sitcom produced by Alomo Productions for Channel 4 in the early 1990s. ... Fierce Creatures is a 1997 comedy movie, John Cleese and companys follow-up to the widely popular A Fish Called Wanda. ... Divorcing Jack is the title of these works of fiction: Divorcing Jack (novel), a 1996 novel by Colin Bateman Divorcing Jack (film), a 1998 movie, based on the novel, starring David Thewlis This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (April 9, 1757 – January 23, 1833) was a British naval officer. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... Hornblower is the umbrella title of an acclaimed series of television drama programmes loosely based on C. S. Foresters novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a British naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars. ... Cecil Scott Forester is the pen name of Cecil Smith (August 27, 1899 - April 2, 1966), an English novelist whose rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes, notably the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series (being filmed with Ioan Gruffudd as Horatio Hornblower) about naval warfare during the... Cracker is the title of a television crime series in the United Kingdom, made by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. ... An etching by George Cruikshank titled Fagin in the condemned Cell, November 1838. ... This article is about the year. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... Oliver Twist is a television mini-series produced by ITV in 1999. ...

2000s

Lindsay has become familiar to a new generation of viewers as Ben Harper in the popular BBC sitcom My Family since 2000. Ben Harper is a fictional character in the long running British sitcom My Family. ... My Family is a British sitcom starring Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker that first aired in 2000. ...

In October 2005 he starred in a new ITV drama series Jericho, about a Scotland Yard detective investigating murder and kidnapping in London's Soho in the 1950s. In January and February 2006, he appeared as Sneath in two loosely linked Stephen Poliakoff dramas, Friends and Crocodiles and Gideon's Daughter, shown on BBC One. He was the only actor to appear in both productions. Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... Jericho is the title of an ITV drama series which was broadcast in 2005. ... New Scotland Yard, London New Scotland Yard, it blowwsssss often referred to simply as Scotland Yard or The Yard, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for policing Greater London (although not the City of London itself). ... Cast-iron architecture in Greene Street SoHo is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ... Stephen Poliakoff Stephen Poliakoff (born December 1, 1952) is an acclaimed British playwright, director and scriptwriter, widely judged amongst Britains foremost television dramatists. ... Following the success of his Emmy-winning drama The Lost Prince, the writer-director Stephen Poliakoff returned with a film charting the shifting power between a boss and his secretary as their careers rise and fall in the rapidly changing workplace of Eighties and Nineties Britain. ... Gideons Daughter is the second of two linked BBC television dramas written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff. ... For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 1. ...

He has also portrayed Prime Minister Tony Blair in the Channel 4 satires A Very Social Secretary and The Trial of Tony Blair.^[2] In 2003, he made a guest appearance in an episode in Absolutely Fabulous and also provided his voice as the narrator for the BBC documentary series Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is, in practice, the political leader of the United Kingdom. ... For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency... This article is about the British television station. ... The Trial of Tony Blair was a satirical fictional documentary, based around the notion that British Prime Minister, Tony Blair is to face charges of war crimes by an international tribunal, following his departure from 10 Downing Street. ... Absolutely Fabulous is a British sitcom written by and starring Jennifer Saunders, and co-starring Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha and June Whitfield. ... This article is about a book. ...

Lindsay appeared in the 8th Ricky Gervais Video Podcast, where Gervais announced Lindsay would be starring in the second series of Extras. The Ricky Gervais Show is a comedy audio show in the UK starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington. ... Not to be confused with Extra (TV series). ...

Lindsay also sings the recorded version of Derby County Football Club's song "Steve Bloomer's Watching", played and sung by the fans at the beginning of every home game, and usually at the start of the second half and after a good win.

Personal life

Lindsay married Citizen Smith co-star Cheryl Hall in 1974. They divorced in 1980, when he started a long term relationship with the actress Diana Weston, with whom he had a daughter Sydney (born 1988), who co-starred with him in three episodes of My Family. Since acting as Admiral Pellew in the Hornblower series, Lindsay has become good friends with the real Pellew family. Cheryl Hall (born 23 July 1950 in London) is a British actress. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Diana Weston (born 1955 in Toronto, Canada) is an English actress who has been on British television since 1975. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...

He then left Weston for actress/presenter Rosemarie Ford. The couple have two sons, Samuel (born 18 November 1999) and Jamie (born 8 April 2003). The couple married on 31 December 2006 ^[3]. Rosemarie Ford (b. ... is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... April 8 is the 98th day of the year (99th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Lindsay researched his family tree in the third series of Who Do You Think You Are?, and his episode was aired on 13 September 2006, and he travelled to his hometown and to Turkey, where his grandfather Jesse Stevenson had taken part in the Gallipoli campaign during World War I. Who Do You Think You Are? was a ten part television series shown on the UKs BBC2, in 2004, in which various celebrities go on a journey, in order to try and trace their family tree. ... is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants British Empire Australia British India Newfoundland New Zealand United Kingdom Egyptian labourers[1] France Senegal  Ottoman Empire Commanders Sir Ian Hamilton Lord Kitchener John de Robeck Otto von Sanders Mustafa Kemal Strength 5 divisions (initial) 16 divisions (final) 6 divisions (initial) 15 divisions (final) Casualties 252,000[2] 195... “The Great War ” redirects here. ...

He currently lives in Denham, Buckinghamshire, which is conveniently within close proximity to Pinewood Studios where My Family is filmed. Denham is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. ... The gatehouse at Pinewood Studios Pinewood Studios is a major British film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire. ... My Family is a British sitcom starring Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker that first aired in 2000. ...

Lindsay also owns a property in Port Issac, a village situated in North Cornwall

References

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External links

• Robert Lindsay at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Robert Lindsay website
• Biography on BBC site
• Robert Lindsay on Who Do You Think You Are?