Geoffrey Streatfeild

Geoffrey Streatfeild
Born	1975

Geoffrey Streatfeild (born 1975) is an English actor in film, television, stage and radio. He is a member of the historic Streatfeild family.

Early life

Streatfeild was born in London, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). He has a brother Richard, older by two years.

Career

His notable film and TV roles include The Other Boleyn Girl and Kinky Boots. He also appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company's "Histories" company in 2007-08 as Prince Hal/Henry V (Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two and Henry V), Suffolk (Henry VI Parts I and II), Rivers (Henry VI Part III and Richard III).^[1]

His elder brother Richard Streatfeild, as a serving Major in the Rifles, advised Geoffrey on military life for his roles in Henry V and Journey's End.^[2] Streatfeild joined the cast of Spooks for its final series in 2011, playing the character of Calum Reed, a Junior Case Officer at MI5 until its end.^[3] In 2012 Streatfeild joined the cast of the popular BBC2 political satire The Thick of It as the "Inbetweener" junior minister in DoSac. In 2015 he reprised his role as Calum Reed in the spy film Spooks: The Greater Good.

Personal life

In 2003, Streatfeild married English actress Nikki Amuka-Bird whom he met while both were touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Japan. They live in South London.^[4]

Selected credits

Stage

• Eigengrau (Bush Theatre) by Penelope Skinner^[5]
• The History Boys (National, tour) by Alan Bennett
• Bacchai (Royal Nation Theatre|National Theatre]])
• Mountain Language (Royal Court)
• Journey’s End, as Stanhope (Comedy Theatre) by R. C. Sherriff
• Nathan the Wise (Chichester)
• Merchant of Venice (Chichester) by William Shakespeare
• Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible) by William Shakespeare
• My Night with Reg (Donmar Warehouse and Apollo Theatre) by Kevin Elyot
• The Beaux' Stratagem (National Theatre) by George Farquhar

TV

• Elizabeth I
• 20,000 Streets Under The Sky
• Midsomer Murders
• The Other Boleyn Girl
• Love in a Cold Climate
• Sword of Honour
• Spooks (2011)
• The Thick of It (2012)

Film

• Match Point
• Kinky Boots
• City Slacker^[6]
• Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)

Radio

• The Officers' Ward
• David Copperfield, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama, 5–30 December 2005
• Brideshead Revisited
• The Waterbucks, BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play, 23 November 2005
• Marks
• Richard III
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Nathan The Wise
• The History Boys
• The Pallisers
• The Ballad of Shane O’Neill
• Shylock
• Success Story, BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play, 6 March 2009
• Modesty Blaise - A Taste for Death, BBC Radio 4 15 Minute Drama, 17-21 December 2012

References

1. Histories ensemble - Geoffrey Streatfeild
2. "Geoffrey Streatfeild and his brother Richard". Sunday Times (London). 4 May 2008.
3. Spooks Profile - Calum Reed http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mf4b/characters/calumreed
4. Sunday Times article, "Geoffrey Streatfeild and His Brother Richard" May 2008
5. Eigengrau http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/production/eigengrau/
6. Stephenson, John-Paul (13 September 2013). "Interview: Fiona Gillies talks about City Slacker". Giggle Beats. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

External links

• Geoffrey Streatfeild at the Internet Movie Database