#DOC MARTIN MOVIE#
Prior to Doc Martin, he was best known for his work on the London-set soap, which he joined in 1997, but it wasn't his first role.Īs a child, he was cast in a series of advertisements for Sun-Pat peanut butter and went on to star in 1991 movie Antonia and Jane and TV shows including The Bill and Silent Witness.
Joe Absolomįormer EastEnders star Joe plays pub landlord Al Large on the Cornish drama. Her talents don't stop at acting: she co-created the TV dramas Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Elliot with her collaborator Jean Marsh and wrote the screenplay for 1997 movie Mrs Dalloway. You might also know her as Queen Mary in The Crown or recognise her from roles in films like Paddington 2, Jack and Sarah, Last Chance Harvey, and Gosford Park.Ī veteran of the stage as well as screen, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1957, made her Broadway debut in 1966 and has been nominated for four Tony Awards and won three Olivier Awards, as well as an Emmy and a BAFTA. Now 69, he started out in TV series The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby back in 1982, and has since become a veteran of films and television, having played the Newsreader in HBO series Rome and starred in movies like Dune, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, alongside Hugh Grant.ĭame Eileen plays Ruth Ellingham on Doc Martin – Martin's aunt, as well as a retired forensic psychiatrist. Ian McNeiceĪs local plumber Bert Large, Ian McNeice has been a regular on the show since it started, and he's become a firm fan favourite, even telling The Mirror that the show had made him a "sex symbol" in his sixties. She's also presented documentaries and appeared in plays, including productions of Curtains and Top Girls. She's married to actor Michael Higgs, having met him on the set of The Bill, where she played another police officer.
#DOC MARTIN PC#
She's obviously got a knack for playing authority figures as her other well-known roles include Detective Inspector Kate Ashurst in Murder in Suburbia, Detective Inspector Helen Morton in DCI Banks and PC Cheryl Hutchins in The Vice. MORE: Inside Martin Clunes' beautiful Dorset farmhouse Caroline CatzĬaroline plays Louisa Ellingham (formerly Glasson), the headteacher of the local school who marries Martin. More recently, you might have seen him in Warren, a comedy about a driving instructor, as well as in thriller Manhunt, and he also played Sir Pitt Crawley in last year's Vanity Fair.
It is the best job in television." The actor first shot to fame playing the immature Gary in 1990s sitcom Men Behaving Badly alongside Neil Morrisey. The 57-year-old said: "The county is so beautiful, and the people have been so warm and welcoming to us. The fictional doctor's change in career path meant he reluctantly relocated to the fictional Cornish village of Portwenn, but Martin Clunes is much happier about spending time in the area in real life, telling Cornwall Live how much he loves working there. Martin has played his namesake Doctor Martin Ellingham since 2004. But harmony is hard to find.WATCH: Martin Clunes explains real reason Doc Martin is coming to an end Martin Clunes Later, Martin and Louisa fall in love and eventually - after a few false starts - get married. On an initial visit, he greatly disconcerts local teacher Louisa Glasson, who he then finds is on the health board that will either accept or reject him as the new doctor. When he's unleashed on the sleepy Cornish fishing village of Portwenn, the inhabitants are in for a shock - they're more likely to receive cold-blooded diagnoses and personal insults than tea and sympathy.
He may have re-trained as a GP, but he still retains the aloof and tactless manner that presumably took him to specialist surgery in the first place. Martin Clunes stars in this traditional and very popular family comedy drama as the socially challenged GP working in a sleepy Cornish hamlet.Īfter developing a phobia of blood, specialist vascular surgeon Martin Ellingham is forced into a change of career.
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