Michael Kitchen Biography
Michael Kitchen is a British actor and producer who was born and brought up in Leicester, Leicestershire, England as Michael Roy Kitchen.
He is known for Out of Africa (1985), GoldenEye (1995), as well as The World, Is Not Enough (1999). He has been married to Rowena Miller since the year 1988. The couple has two children.
Michael Kitchen Height
Kitchen stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches(1.7 m or 170 cm). However, details regarding his weight and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We are keeping tabs and will update this information once it is out.
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Michael Kitchen Education
Kitchen attended the City of Leicester Boys’ Grammar School, where he appeared on stage in a production of Cymbeline. As a young boy, he was the head chorister in the Church of the Martyrs choir. Here he was a regular soloist.
He worked with the National Youth Theatre and the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry prior to attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In the year 1969, while still at RADA, he won the “Emile Littler Award” for ‘outstanding talent and aptitude for the professional theatre’.
Michael Kitchen Family
Kitchen was born to Arthur Ernest Kitchen(father) and Elsie Betty Kitchen(mother). His father was born in 1921 in Belgrave, Leicester, United Kingdomin Leicester, Leicestershire and died in 2002. Kitchen was born and raised alongside his brother Jeffrey Kitchen. He was head chorister in the Church of the Martyrs choir, where he was a regular soloist.
Michael Kitchen Wife
Michael Kitchen is married to Rowena Miller, whom he met while she was a dresser at the RSC in the late 1980s. The couple wedded in 1988. Michael and Rowena have two sons together. Kitchen values his privacy and rarely gives interviews concerning his family.
Michael Kitchen Children
Kitchen and his wife Miller have two children together. However, Kitchen likes to keep his personal life private hence information about his children’s names is under research. However, this information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Michael Kitchen Net Worth
Michael Kitchen has an estimated net worth of $6 million dollars. He has accumulated his wealth from his successful career as an actor.
Michael Kitchen Out Of Africa
Kitchen starred as Berkeley Cole in the film Out of Africa in 1985. It is an American epic romantic drama film directed as well as produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The film is based loosely on the year 1937 autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen, with additional material from Dinesen’s 1960 book Shadows on the Grass as well as other sources.
Michael Kitchen Actor and Career
Kitchen was discovered at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) by talent agent Peter Froggatt of Plant & Froggatt Ltd. In the early 1970s, Kitchen appeared in small roles in films such as Unman, Wittering, and Zigo (1971) and the Hammer film Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) before becoming a fixture of British television.
His early TV appearances include roles in Play for Today (Hell’s Angels by David Agnew, 1971), Thriller, The Brontes of Haworth, 1973, in which he played Branwell Bronte), Tales of the Unexpected and Beasts.
Kitchen played the role of Martin in the original 1976 production of Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle, Peter in Stephen Poliakoff’s Caught on a Train, Edmund in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of King Lear, the Antipholi in the same series’ production of The Comedy of Errors, Private Bamforth in the 1979 BBC television play of The Long and the Short and the Tall.
Also in 1979 Kitchen appeared in an episode of the hard-hitting police drama The Professionals, the episode entitled Runner. He played the role of Duffy, a renegade former member of an organized crime network.
Other roles at this time include Larner in the film Breaking Glass (1980), Rochus Misch in The Bunker (1981), Berkeley Cole in the film Out of Africa (1985), the King of the United Kingdom in To Play the King (1993), an English land agent during the Irish Famine in The Hanging Gale (1995), and a recurring role as Bill Tanner in the Pierce Brosnan Bond films GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999).
Kitchen later films include The Russia House (1990), Fools of Fortune (1990), Enchanted April (1992), The Trial (1993), Fatherland (1994), Doomsday Gun (1994), The Hanging Gale (1995), Kidnapped (1995), Mrs Dalloway (1997), The Railway Children (2000), Proof of Life (2000), Lorna Doone (2001) and My Week with Marilyn (2011).
Kitchen appeared in the ITV mystery-drama Foyle’s War as the lead character, DCS Christopher Foyle from 2002 to 2015. He was also a producer for the show. Other noted appearances include The Buccaneers as Sir Helmsley Thwaite (1995), Dandelion Dead (1994), and A Royal Scandal (1996).
Kitchen also made appearances in The Last Contract (Sista Kontraktet,1998) a Swedish film about the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. Michael was also cast in Paul Abbott’s Alibi in 2003, Andrew Davies’ dramatisation of Falling in 2005, ITV’s three-part drama series Mobile (2007), and Channel 4’s phone-hacking comedy Hacks (2012).
Kitchen starred as a guest in roles in other popular British television shows including The Professionals, Minder, Chancer, Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, Between the Lines, Pie in the Sky as well as Dalziel and Pascoe. Kitchen performed Richard Crane in Reckless and John Farrow in the mockumentary The Life of Rock alongside Brian Pern.
Also, he is a noted actor in British theatre. His roles have ranged from Ptolemy in Caesar and Cleopatra at the Belgrade Theatre in 1966. He also cast as Will in Howard Brenton’s Magnificence at the Royal Court in 1973. Additionally, he was William Hogarth in Nick Dear’s The Art of Success in 1986–87.
Kitchen performed Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet for the RSC at Stratford and was a member of the National Theatre Company as well as the Young Vic, where he performed Iago in Othello. In 1974, he appeared at Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre in the play Spring Awakening opposite Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Beryl Reid, and Cyril Cusack.
Later he performed opposite Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land, directed by Peter Hall. In the year 1981, he starred Melchior, the manservant of Zangler, in Tom Stoppard’s play On the Razzle. In the year 1984, he played the cabin steward Dvornicheck in Tom Stoppard’s play Rough Crossing.
Michael Kitchen Personal Quotes
On Foyle’s War (2002): When the series first went out in the States, for example, at the front of each episode a rather eminent historian spent a couple of minutes on camera explaining how that episode related to the period of war it’s set in, what actual incidents have inspired it along with various things to look out for during the course of the program.
I think it’s a great shame something similar doesn’t happen when the series is screened in the UK. It undeniably adds another level and depth to the program, not to mention the success this sort of prologue or introduction has had in the past – the Alfred Hitchcock series for example.
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