Jeremy Brudenell


Jeremy Alexander Rothwell Brudenell is a retired British actor of the 1980s and 1990s.

Early life

Jeremy Alexander Rothwell Brudenell was born in Hammersmith, London on 2 April 1960. He is the second son of Mollie Brudenell, and the physician Dr. John Michael Brudenell.

Acting career

He appeared as James Steerforth in David Copperfield, Charles Warden in Fortunes of War, Louis Bonaparte in ', Jean-Louis in Wish Me Luck, Sebastian Pearce in The House of Eliott, Ken Bernhard in The Bill, Robert de Valicourt/Nicholas Ward in ', Bill Truscott in A Dance to the Music of Time, Thaddeus Arnold in The Enid Blyton Secret Series, and Father in Alice in Wonderland. He also appeared in Massacre Play, a 1989 Italian thriller-drama film.
Brudenell's stage roles include Time and the Conways at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, The Circle at the Theatre Royal, Bath, Venus Observed at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Paul in Double Take at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, and Edmund in King Lear at the Young Vic.

Later life

After professionally retiring from acting in 1999 Brudenell began a business career, and opened the 'Root One Garden Centre' in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

Personal life

Brudenell married the model Edwina Hicks, the granddaughter of Lord Mountbatten of Burma, on 24 March 1984 at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. The couple had three children prior to their divorce in 2004: Maddison May Modupe-Ojo, Jordan Anne Brudenell, and Rowan Michael David Brudenell.