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Robert Guy Bathurst (born 22 February 1957) is an English actor. Bathurst was born in the Gold Coast in 1957, where his father was working as a management consultant. His family moved to Dublin, Ireland, in 1959 and Bathurst was enrolled at an Anglican boarding school. In 1966, the family moved to England, and Bathurst transferred to Worth School in Sussex, where he took up amateur dramatics. At the age of 18, he read law at the University of Cambridge and joined the Cambridge Footlights group. After graduating, he took up acting full-time. He made his professional stage debut in 1983, playing Tim Allgood in Michael Frayn's ''Noises Off'', which ran for a year at the Savoy Theatre. To broaden his knowledge of working on stage, he joined the National Theatre. He supplemented his stage roles in the 1980s with television roles, appearing in comedies such as the aborted pilot episode of ''Blackadder'', ''Chelmsford 123'', ''The Lenny Henry Show'', and the first episode of ''Red Dwarf''. In 1991, he won his first major television role playing Mark Taylor in Steven Moffat's semi-autobiographical BBC sitcom ''Joking Apart''. Although only thirteen episodes were made between 1991 and 1995, the role remains Bathurst's favourite of his whole career. After ''Joking Apart'' concluded, he was cast as pompous management consultant David Marsden in the ITV comedy drama ''Cold Feet'', which ran for five series from 1998 to 2003. Since 2003, Bathurst has played a fictional prime minister in the BBC sitcom ''My Dad's the Prime Minister'', Mark Thatcher in the fact-based drama ''Coup!'', and a man whose daughter goes missing in the ITV thriller ''The Stepfather''. He also made a return to theatre roles, playing Vershinin in ''The Three Sisters'' (2003), Adrien in the two-hander ''Members Only'' (2006), government whip Alistair in ''Whipping it Up'' (2006–07), and Alex in ''Alex'' (2007, 2008). In the following years he starred in the television dramas ''The Pillars of the Earth'' (2010), ''Downton Abbey'' (2010), ''Hattie'' (2011) and joined the cast of ''Wild at Heart'' (2012). Bathurst appeared in his first Noël Coward play, ''Present Laughter'', in 2010 and followed it with a role in ''Blithe Spirit'' in 2010 and 2011. He is married and has four children. ==Early life== Robert Guy Bathurst was born in Accra, Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana), on 22 February 1957 to Philip Bathurst and Gillian Bathurst (''née'' Debenham). His father was a major in the Royal Engineers during the Second World War and was working in West Africa as a management consultant, and his mother was a physiotherapist.〔"(Person Page 14430 )". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 4 March 2009.〕〔Hagan, Angela (2 December 2000). "Why I'd never let my girls watch Cold Feet", ''The Mirror'' (MGN): pp. 4–5.〕〔Dalglish, Darren (7 March 2011). "(Questions and Answers with... Robert Bathurst )". London Theatre Guide. Retrieved 19 March 2011.〕 They had two other children; Nicholas and Charlotte. The family lived in Ghana until 1959, when they moved to Ballybrack, Dublin, Ireland.〔Quigley, Maeve (28 January 2001). "(People don't get Cold Feet about approaching me.. they come up and say: 'I want to thump you' )". ''Sunday Mirror'' (MGN): p. 39 (archived at findarticles.com).〕 Bathurst and his brother attended two schools in Dublin—the Holy Child School in Killiney and a school in Ballsbridge—before being sent to a preparatory school in Kells, County Meath. He compared the time he and his brother, Catholics, spent at the Anglican boarding school to ''Lord of the Flies''; "we were incarcerated in a huge, stinking, Georgian house, where we were treated very brutally."〔〔〔Chilsett, Helen (14 November 1999). "Freedom fighter". ''The Mail on Sunday'' (Associated Newspapers): p. 29 (''Night & Day'' supplement).〕 In 1966, the family moved to England. Bathurst transferred to the Worth Abbey boarding school in Sussex, which he much preferred to the school in Kells.〔 At the age of 13, he began acting in minor skits and revues and read old copies of ''Plays and Players'' magazine, "studying floor plans of theatres and reading about new theatres being built".〔 He had first become interested in acting when his family saw a pantomime at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, and he watched actors waiting for their cues in the wings.〔Smurthwaite, Nick (11 October 2006). "Filling in the blanks", ''The Stage'': p. 35.〕 He left Worth at the age of 18 to read law at Pembroke College, Cambridge.〔"(Register of Alumni/ae: Surnames beginning with BA )". Pembroke College website. Retrieved 3 August 2009.〕 Describing himself as "hopeless at anything academic",〔 he spent much of his time at university performing in the Cambridge Footlights alongside Hugh Laurie, Rory McGrath and Emma Thompson.〔〔 From 1977 to 1978, he was the secretary of the group, and from 1978 to 1979 the president. Among the Footlights Revues he participated in were ''Stage Fright'' in 1978, which he also co-wrote, and ''Nightcap'' in 1979.〔"(1970 )". Footlights website. Retrieved 29 June 2009.〕 He also directed and appeared in the Footlights pantomime ''Aladdin'' as Widow Twankey during the 1978–79 season.〔Staff (18 January 1979). "Aladdin". ''The Stage and Television Today'': p. 15.〕 He took the Bar Vocational Course in London, which allowed him to go on to become a practising barrister, but stuck to acting instead.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Bathurst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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