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Maxton Gig Beesley Jr. (born 16 April 1971) is an English actor and musician. He has appeared in a variety of television shows such as Bodies, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Survivors, Mad Dogs, Homeland, Suits, The Last Enemy, Ordinary Lies, and Jamestown.

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Max Beesley
Born	Maxton Gig Beesley Jr. (1971-04-16) 16 April 1971 (age 51) Burnage, Lancashire, England
Occupation	Actor, writer, producer, director, composer
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	Jennifer Noelle
Children	2

Early life

Beesley was born on 16 April 1971 in Burnage, Manchester.[1] His father, Maxton Beesley Sr, is a professional jazz drummer and actor, and his mother was a jazz singer who performed under the stage name Chris Marlowe.[2] He has a step-brother, Jason Milligan, who is also an actor.[3] He has a brother Gary who is a teacher. His parents divorced when he was a baby. His middle name was inspired by the American actor Gig Young. His father was also a regular guest on the Ted Rogers show 3-2-1, doing impressions amidst several sketches.

Career

Acting

Beesley studied in New York under teacher Sheila Gray. He is an advocate for method acting and approaches all his roles with this technique. Beesley came to prominence with his first major acting role in BBC's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, a 1997 television mini-series based on the book of the same name. He then appeared in the film Kill Me Later alongside Selma Blair. He also starred in Mike Figgis' movie Hotel. He starred in the BBC Three medical drama Bodies, which ran from 2004 to 2006 and won best drama at the Royal Television Society awards. He also starred in the BBC One series Hotel Babylon from 2006 to 2008, with a guest appearance thereafter in one episode.

In June 2007, Beesley starred in the ITV series Talk to Me. He also starred in the film Red Roses and Petrol alongside Malcolm McDowell, and in the BBC thriller The Last Enemy with Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Carlyle. In October 2008, he was one of the lead characters in BBC One's remake of the 1970s drama Survivors, as remorseless former criminal Tom Price. The series consisted of six episodes, with a second series of six episodes transmitted in January 2010. He starred in the ITV drama The Reckoning in April 2011. Beesley gained more exposure with American audiences with a recurring role on Suits in 2013 and from October 2015 with another recurring role, this time in the US spy drama Homeland opposite Claire Danes, as ex-British special forces bodyguard Mike Brown. From 2016 to 2018 he starred in Jamestown as Henry Sharrow, depicting the first British settlers to colonise Virginia in 1609. He joined the cast of The Outsider on HBO in June 2019, which aired from January 2020.

Beesley has been the narrator for several TV advertisements, including ITV, NFU Mutual's insurance, Energizer's lithium batteries, and PC World.[4] He also provided the voiceover for Manchester United's season review DVD.^[when?] In 2011, he appeared in a TV campaign for the UK recruitment company Jobsite, and was also featured on their homepage. Beesley narrated the documentary Chatsworth, shown on BBC One in May 2012.

Music

Beesley is also a session musician, and solo artist, having had a successful career before becoming an actor. He was a chorister at Manchester Cathedral and studied at Chetham's School of Music.[5] He also studied percussion and classical piano at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with soul singer Omar and toured with the Brand New Heavies on keyboards and percussion. He has also toured or recorded with George Benson, Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, The JB's and Zero7. He is also a vibraphone player.[6]

Beesley has performed in concert as a percussionist and pianist for Robbie Williams, Take That, Jamiroquai, and the Paul Weller Movement.[5] He played percussion and piano at Williams' Knebworth gigs in summer 2003 and at Hyde Park for Live 8 London. Williams' first concert of his Close Encounters Tour in Perth on 30 November 2006 saw Beesley as percussionist for the second half of the show. He also played drums during the performance of "Rudebox" at Williams' second Brisbane concert and during a BBC Electric Proms show.

Beesley was a member of the jazz band Incognito, but in 1994, after an eight-month tour with them, decided to end his music career and start acting.[6] On 28 October 2006, Beesley appeared as a special guest pianist for James Brown during his performance at the Roundhouse in London as part of the BBC's Electric Proms festival.[7] In 2020, he recorded his first solo album titled Groove Spectrum at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles with Grammy-winning producer/mixer Al Schmitt mixing the album. It features Paul Weller, Robbie Williams, Fred Durst, Lisa Stansfield, jazz pianist Christian Sands, Tommy Blaize, Antonique Smith, John Turrell, Omar, and Francci Richards. A multi-instrumentalist, Beesley wrote, played, and scored the album.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Last of the Summer Wine	Colin's mate	1 episode
1986	Last of the Summer Wine	Passerby	1 episode
1997	The Broker's Man	Joe Goodwin	2 episodes
1997	The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling	Tom Jones / Reverend Summer	5 episodes
1999	Five Seconds to Spare	William
1999	The Match	Wullie Smith
2000	It Was an Accident	Mickey Cousins
2001	Kill Me Later	Charlie Anders
2001	The Last Minute	Billy Byrne
2001	Hotel	Antonio
2001	Glitter	Julian "Dice" Black
2002	Fields of Gold	Mark Hurst
2002	Anita and Me	Hairy Neddy
2003	The Emperor's Wife	Emperor
2003	Red Roses and Petrol	Johnny Doyle
2004	Torque	Luther
2004	The Porter	Porter	Short film
2004–2006	Bodies	Mr. Rob Lake	17 episodes
2005	Bloodlines	DC Jake Bannerman
2005	Hustle	Jake Henry	1 episode
2005	Her Name is Carla	Jack
2006–2009	Hotel Babylon	Charlie Edwards	22 episodes
2007	Talk to Me	Mitch Moore	4 episodes
2007–2008	London Ink	Narrator	6 episodes
2008	The Last Enemy	Michael Ezard	5 episodes
2008–2010	Survivors	Tom Price	12 episodes
2011–2013	Mad Dogs	Woody	14 episodes
2011	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Thomas Stewart	Series 11, Episode 3: "Blood Moon"
2011	The Reckoning	Mark Dobson	2 episodes
2013	Suits	Stephen Huntley	7 episodes
2013	Pawn	Billy
2015	Ordinary Lies	Mike	6 episodes
2015	Strike Back	Ray McQueen	2 episodes
2015	Homeland	Mike Brown	1 episode
2015–2016	Empire	Guy	3 episodes
2017–2019	Jamestown	Henry Sharrow
2019	Line of Descent	Commissioner Bates	Indian film released on ZEE5[8]
2020	The Outsider	Seale Bolton	4 episodes
2022	Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre	Ben Harris
2022	The Midwich Cuckoos	DCI Paul Haynes	7 episodes

References

External links

• Maxton Beesley's website
• Max Beesley at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Max Beesley

Maxton Gig Beesley junior (* 16. April 1971 in Manchester) ist ein britischer Schauspieler und Musiker.

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[ru] Бизли, Макс

Ма́кстон Гиг (Макс) Би́зли-мла́дший (англ. Maxton Gig "Max" Beesley Jr., род. 16 апреля 1971, Манчестер) — английский актёр и музыкант. Наиболее известен по роли Чарли Эдвардса в телесериале «Отель „Вавилон“».

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