Gregory Paul Martin

Gregory Paul Martin (born 21 January 1957) is a British writer and actor. He is the eldest son of Beatles producer Sir George Martin and the half-brother of the music producer Giles Martin.

Early life and education Martin was born in 1957 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. George Martin left his wife and two children in 1962, when Gregory was five, in order to remarry.

He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, graduating in 1977.

Career Acting Theatre Martin's acting roles in the British theatre include the world premiere of Bent (1979) at the Royal Court Theatre in London with Ian McKellen, a season at the Bristol Old Vic, a season at London's Old Vic,

His American theatre credits include the title role of Peer Gynt at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and the title role in Hamlet at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, as well as the American premier of Harold Pinter's Other Places, at The Manhattan Theater Club in New York City.

Television Martin starred opposite Faye Dunaway and Richard Burton in the 1984 CBS miniseries Ellis Island. He also made appearances in a number of television series of the 1980s–1990s, including Murder, She Wrote; Sliders; Babylon 5; and Mad About You.

Film Martin appeared in a small role in the movie Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992), with Chevy Chase and Daryl Hannah, and in a small role in A Walk in the Clouds (1995), alongside Keanu Reeves and Debra Messing.

Writing According to Martin, while in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s, he wrote and sold two Hollywood screenplays, but the films did not end up getting produced. In the book's online retail product description, he stated "I wrote this book as a satire of an ugly image foisted on me by the British tabloids during the summer of 1999, and was never intended to be taken seriously. I take it as an oddly flattering compliment people assumed the character was really me."

Martin is a professional astrologer as well. In early 2019 he published the book Watch It Come Down, detailing a death-and-rebirth cycle of the United States. they divorced in 2023. He has a son, Connor, who lives in the U.S. to Natasha McKenzie.

As of 2024, Martin lives in Bray, England.

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