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Colin Salmon 
Colin Salmon at Dinard British Film Festival (France)Born Colin Salmon
6 December 1962
Bethnal Green, London, EnglandOccupation Actor Years active 1992–present Spouse Fiona Hawthorne (1988-present) Website http://www.miley.co.uk/colinsalmon/index.html Colin Salmon (born 6 December 1962) is a British actor best known for playing the character Charles Robinson in three James Bond films.
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Personal life
Salmon was born in Bethnal Green, London, England, the son of Sylvia Ivy Brudenell Salmon, a nurse.[1] He grew up in Luton and attended Ramridge Primary School and Ashcroft High School. He supports Luton Town Football Club. Salmon married Fiona Hawthorne in 1988; the two have four children: Sasha, Rudi, Eden and Ben.
Salmon is a governor of Apple's Computer's notschool.net program[2] and he was a guest call taker for the phone lines donations to The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday.
In September 2010, Salmon was invited by his friend Samuel L. Jackson to Switzerland for Shooting Stars Benefits 2010 Golf Tournaments. The golf competition raised money for the Samuel L. Jackson Foundation and the Swiss Red Cross to go towards a new hospital in Takéo Province, one of Cambodia's poorest provinces.[3]
Career
Music
On leaving school, Salmon became the drummer in the punk rock band The Friction, which he formed along with three friends from Ashcroft High School.[4] The band released a 7-inch EP, a live cassette, and a cassette-EP, and performed regularly around Luton in 1979 and 1980.[4] Salmon also briefly worked with another band, the Tee Vees.[4] Colin Salmon plays Trumpet and has his own jazz quartet playing at venues such as The Dorchester Grill Room and at events such as The Cheltenham Jazz Festival (UK).
Speaking about his quartet to noted UK jazz/soul writer Pete Lewis of the award-winning Blues & Soul, in a rare music-themed interview prior to their performance at the HSBC Cheltenham Jazz Festival in May 2008, Salmon stated:
“ In terms of recording, we've done none. We've mostly just done very occasional performances – usually at very special events. You know, keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage – you have to run it every now and then! And what's made that particularly difficult in the last year, for example, is that I've literally just spent an entire 12 months travelling the world acting – from China through to Montreal to Botswana. But, having said that, with the children being older I do have more time when I AM at home these days. So we have been able to do some rehearsing together. And, while we've always mostly performed standards, I have actually for the first time written some new stuff in time for this upcomng Cheltenham gig.[5] ” Acting
Salmon is 6 ft 4¼ in; 194 cm tall[6] with striking aristocratic looks, and is also known for his strong and calm voice. He was ranked in People magazine's poll of 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1993.[7]
He is best known for his role as Charles Robinson, a character in the James Bond films Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day.
He made his feature debut in 1992 as Sgt. Robert Oswald in the British mini-series Prime Suspect 2, which gave him much acclaim among British and American audiences. Salmon also played Note Makoti in The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and David Tyrel in the Sky One UK television series Hex. He appears as himself in the sixth episode of the BBC Three comedy, Little Miss Jocelyn.
In 2006 he appeared in eighth series of ITV drama Bad Girls as Senior Medical Officer Dr. Rowan Dunlop. He played Dr. Moon in two episodes ("Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead") of the fourth series of the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who.[8] He has also recorded the role of Kerr Avon in the new audio series of Blake's 7.
Salmon has worked twice with director Paul W. S. Anderson; appearing in the films Resident Evil and Alien vs. Predator, in both of which Salmon's character meets a grisly end (in fact, a very similar end in both; both characters are sliced into small, crisscrossed chunks). Salmon also played Oonu, squad leader of the Skybax in the 2002 mini-series Dinotopia. His other film credits include Captives (1994), Frantz Fanon:Black Skin White Mask (In this documentary directed by Isaac Julien Salmon plays the French psychiatrist, philosopher, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon) (1996), The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998), Fanny and Elvis (1999), and My Kingdom (2001).
In 2007, Salmon appeared in the season finale of the ITV2 series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, playing a client of the protagonist, a call girl named Hannah Baxter.
In the 2008 film Clubbed, a film about night club bouncers in Coventry in the 1980s, Salmon plays one of the main characters, Louis. In the same year he appeared in The Bank Job as Hakim Jamal.
In 2009, Salmon appeared in the UK version of the popular American drama Law & Order, as barrister Doug Green in the episodes "Buried" and "Community Service".
Salmon was rumored to have been considered to succeed Pierce Brosnan as James Bond and David Tennant as the Doctor; he would have been the first black actor in either role (although he did play Bond in series two of The Omid Djalili Show). The roles went instead to Daniel Craig and Matt Smith, respectively.
He stars in the British thriller film Exam, directed by Stuart Hazeldine.[9]
Football
Salmon is a life long Luton Town fan and he described their 30 points deduction as "distasteful". He pointed out that if it had been a Premier League side then it would not have happened; when he was asked this he said "In a word, no. I don't think they would have." He added, "I'll always have a real place in my heart for Luton Town and they deserve better than this."[10]
Filmography
- Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) as One
- Single Ladies (2011) as Jerry Waters[11]
- High Chicago (2011) as Sam (Post-production)
- Stalker (2010) as Léo Fox
- The Devil's Playground (2010) as Peter White
- Just For The Record (2010) as Maynard Stark
- The Rapture (2010) as Jean Paul
- The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (2010) as Hudson
- Shank (2010) as Boogie
- Merlin (2009) as Aglain
- Exam (2009) as Invigilator
- Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) as Powell
- Punisher: War Zone (2008) as Agent Paul Budiansky
- Clubbed (2008) as Louis
- Credo (2008) as Dr Reynolds
- The Bank Job (2008) as Hakim Jamal
- 8.3 Minutes (2008) as Professor Chamer
- Love Story (2007) as Dan
- Match Point (2005) as Ian
- Alien vs. Predator (2004) as Maxwell Stafford
- Freeze Frame (2004) as Detective Mountjoy
- The Statement (2003) as Father Patrice
- Die Another Day (2002) as Charles Robinson
- Dinotopia (TV miniseries) (2002) as Oonu
- Resident Evil (2002) as One
- My Kingdom (2001) as The Chair
- Fanny and Elvis (1999)
- The World Is Not Enough (1999) as Charles Robinson
- The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998) as Martin
- Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) as Charles Robinson
- Frantz Fanon:black skin,white mask (1996) (a documentary) as Frantz Fanon
- All Men Are Mortal (1995) as Chas
- Captives (1994) as Towler
- Prime Suspect 2 (1992) as Detective Sergeant Robert Oswald
References
- ^ Colin Salmon Biography (1962-) Retrieved 9 August 2011
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/1005697.stm Retrieved 9 August 2011
- ^ http://blackidealist.com/09/20/samuel-l-jackson-still-golfing-for-charity/ Retrieved 11 October 2010
- ^ a b c Ogg, Alex (2006) "Friction", in No More Heroes: A Complete History of UK Punk from 1976 to 1980, Cherry Red Books, ISBN 978-1-901447-65-1, p. 254-255
- ^ Colin Salmon interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' April 2008
- ^ Colin Salmon height Retrieved 20 October 2010
- ^ Beautiful Through the Years - Most Beautiful : People... Retrieved 20 October 2010
- ^ "New guest stars announced for series 4.". bbc.co.uk. 2008-01-24. http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2008/01/24/52354.shtml. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
- ^ "Trailer for UK Thriller 'Exam' Drops in a Little Late". BloodyDisgusting. http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/18216.
- ^ "The proud Hatter". Sky. http://www.skysports.com/socceram/story/0,21644,13873_4740007,00.html.
- ^ "Colin Salmon Talks About His Role As Jerry Waters". VH1. 2011. http://www.vh1.com/video/misc/654807/colin-salmon-talks-about-his-role-as-jerry-waters.jhtml. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
External links
- Colin Salmon at the Internet Movie Database
- Works by or about Colin Salmon in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Colin Salmon at the Notable Names Database
Categories:- 1962 births
- English film actors
- English stage actors
- English television actors
- English voice actors
- Living people
- People from Luton
- Black British actors
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