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by Doug Jones
John Pirkis trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the United Kingdom. Shortly after graduating, he joined a circus company, touring Mediaeval Jousting Tournaments around Great Britain and Europe as both the Earl Marshall ( Ring Master ), and various Combative Knights. For over thirty years since, John has appeared internationally on stage, and on screen. Featuring in many established British TV Dramas, including playing, Freddie Chalk Marshall opposite Hugh Laurie in two seasons of the award winning, Jeeves and Wooster.
More recently, he has featured in the Feature Films, National Treasure II and Young Victoria opposite Emily Blunt as her uncle, Duke of Cumberland/Earl of Derby. His theatre credits include Shakespeare,Chekhov, Oscar Wilde, Bertolt Brecht, Nick Ward, Jean-Marie Besset among others, on London’s West End, and throughout Great Britain and Europe. John has also studied with the Meisner Centre in Los Angeles and at the Université De Montréal.
In 2002 John co-founded the multi-award winning, Theatre503 in London, the home of cutting edge new writing, and afforded the title, ‘Britain’s most important little theatre’ . For this, John received recognition as one of the top 100 people to have contributed the most to British theatre in the Twenty-first Century.
John Pirkis presently resides in Los Angeles where he continues his work as both actor and an ambassador for theatre503.
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