Keith Warwick


Keith Graham Warwick is a Scottish actor and musician. He is best known for the role of Trent Clements in the Royal Television Society award-winning series My Parents Are Aliens.

Early career

Keith was born in Govan, in the Southside of Glasgow. In his last year at Govan High School, Keith joined STG performing in The Government Inspector by Gogol. As a musician he has toured Japan and Europe with The Kaisers and combined his love for acting and music when he formed The Scottish Sex Pistols, playing the part of Johnny Rotten. The band teamed up with John Lydon to promote the release of Kiss This.

Television and film

TV roles include two series as Cockney bad boy Nigel Jenkins in High Road, a Scottish situational drama; as Ben Capstone in The Bill and as Trent Clements in six series of My Parents Are Aliens. He recently played Donald Dee in Robin Hardy's follow up to Wicker Man, The Wicker Tree with Sir Christopher Lee, released in 2011.

Theatre

Warwick has worked in Scottish theatre within a variety of genres including Shakespeare - as Feste in Twelfth Night; as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream; and performing in and producing the anti-bigotry drama Damaged Goods by Martin McCardie at the Tron Theatre. He has also performed in ten commercial pantomime productions, in which he portrays the 'Wishee Washee'/'Buttons' characters.

Music

As a musician, with his wife Simone Welsh, he recorded the folk noir EP Based on Actual Events on SFR. Keith has scored three short films as well as a one-hour TV screenplay. Keith is currently playing Guitar and singing with Scottish beat group, The New Piccadillys.

Writing

His writing credits include Lap of the Gods ; The Creatures ; Dead Man's Fall, The Honest Men. With Sandy Nelson, Keith wrote 'Bite the Bullet' for Oran Mor's A Play, A pie & A paper mache. Joyce McMillan wrote in The Scotsman "as well as some terrific comic dialogue, rich in cultural wisdom; and, as an added bonus, there are a couple of seriously fine songs, to remind us that amid all the celebrity nonsense of the rock scene, great music sometimes gets made, roaring out the truth of our time."