Jeremy Child was born in Woking, Surry in 1944. On screen he specialises in playing civil servants, military types and scheming politicans. As his best in the 1986 mini-series “First Among Equals” based on the novel by Jeffrey Archer. Jeremy Child was recently seen as again a politican in “The Iron Lady” which starred Meryl Streep.
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Jeremy Child was born on September 20, 1944 in Woking, Surrey, England as 3rd Bt Sir Coles John Jeremy Child. He is an actor, known for A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) and The Madness of King George (1994). He has been married to Elizabeth Morgan since 1987. They have two children. He was previously married to Jan Todd and Deborah Grant.Has the distinction of portraying a British Foreign Secretary three times in his career; fictional Foreign Secretary Charles Seymour in First Among Equals, real life Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare in Bertie and Elizabeth and real life Foreign Secretary Francis Pym in The Falklands Play.