Anthony Green (born 4 April 1970) is a British actor known for playing Station Officer Mick Callaghan in series 14 of '' London's Burning''.

Early life

Green was born in

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, England. He began acting at the age of 6, playing

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in ''

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'' at Daisyfield Primary School. At

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, he played Oscar Lindquist in ''

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''. He continued to act while studying law at the

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, playing John Proctor in ''

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'', Jimmy Porter in ''

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'' and I in a stage adaptation of ''

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''. At the

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he played Sheriff Baldwin Rawel in Richard Davidson's Storybook which won a Fringe First and was nominated for the Independent Theatre Award.

Career

In film, he played the leading role of Jonathan Berkoff, opposite

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, in the

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British feature ''

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''. He played parts in '' The Bourne Identity'' and the

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''.He took the central role of Michael, in

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's short film ''Love Story'' about a man's journey to find true love. It was shown at a number of film festivals across the United States and Europe and won the Verizon Audience Award at the Indo-American Arts Festival in New York. He has played lead roles in two American TV movies: Grozny, in

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' '' Anaconda 3: Offspring'', which co-stars

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and

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, and pirate

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's ''

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'', which features

Angus Macfadyen Angus Macfadyen (born 1963) is a Scottish actor. His roles include Robert the Bruce, both in ''Braveheart'' and ''Robert the Bruce'', Komodo in '' Warriors of Virtue'', Vice-Counsel Dupont in ''Equilibrium'', Jeff Denlon in the ''Saw'' franch ...

in the title role. He played series regular lead roles in the PBS/Carlton co-production of ''

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'', playing Lord Hugh Beringar, opposite

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, and in the A&E/BBC co-production of ''

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'', playing Sir Andrew Foulkes, opposite

Richard E. Grant Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; 5 May 1957) is an Eswatini-born English actor and presenter. He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy '' Withnail and I'' (1987). Grant received critical acclaim for his role as Jack H ...

. He was Station Officer Mick Callaghan in the series finale of '' London's Burning'', and DCI Be199lmarsh in ''Beech is Back'', a special series of ''

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''. Television guest leads include ''If...The Oil Runs Out'', ''Where the Heart Is'' (Series I and VII), ''Big Bad World'', ''Wycliffe'', and ''Wing and a Prayer''. In ''

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'' he portrayed a fictional Roman character Marcus Quintanus opposite Shauna Macdonald's non-fictional Boudica. Both actors played their parts in Latin.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Anthony 1970 births Alumni of the University of Nottingham English male film actors English male television actors Living people Male actors from Blackburn