Anthony Calf

Anthony Calf (born 4 May 1959 in Hammersmith, London) is an English actor. He studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He has recurring roles in the television medical drama Holby City, as Michael Beauchamp, and New Tricks as Strickland. He has also worked in theatre, where his credits include productions of The Madness of George III with the National Theatre and A Midsummer Nights Dream, The false servant at the National Theatre and Rock’n Roll at the Duke of Yorks Theatre. He has been nominated as best actor in the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2008 for his work in Uncle Vanya at the Gate Theatre. He was featured in King Charles III on Broadway in 2015.He made his television debut in the 1982 Doctor Who episode The Visitation. In the same year, he landed the role of Digby Geste in a television adaptation of Beau Geste. His other television credits include the part of novelist Lawrence Durrell in My Family and Other Animals, Pip in Great Expectations and Colonel Fitzwilliam in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. He has also appeared in episodes of Doc Martin, Foyles War, Midsomer Murders and Agatha Christies Poirot.In 2010 Calf played the Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in the BBCs revival of Upstairs, Downstairs, reprising his stage role as Eden (twenty years older as Prime Minister at the time of Suez) in Howard Brentons Never So Good (2008).He is married to the actress Caroline Harker, with whom he has three daughters: Louise Emma Calf (b. December 1983), Cecilia Ann L Calf (b. September 1995), and Anemone Georgiana Calf (b. October 2000).

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