Performers in Wales
| Category: Actor |
| Terry Victor |
Caerwent
, Monmouthshire |
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| to Terry Victor |
| Terry 's web site: www.terryvictor.co.uk |
| Dark, greying; 5’8”; overweight; playing age – late 40s-late50s. Baritone; Latin percussion and blues harp. Native of London resident in Wales for more than 20 years. Accents: RP, various London, New York (Queens), most UK regions with study, generic Australian and all-purpose American. Clean driving licence. Terry's stage work includes: Zeller in the national tour of the Sound of Music, Smith in Mr Cinders; Toby Belch, Falstaff in Merry Wives reviewed as “a towering performance”; The Secret Life of Cartoons at the Aldwych, the stage premiere of Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em, Kierkegaard's Diary of a Seducer “a delightful portrayal of a nervous and doltish suitor” and the eponymous role in Tolstoy's Memoirs of a Lunatic “Mr Victor’s haunting performance...” As writer/director/performer he has created a whole repertoire of suspicious characters for cabaret whodunnit specialists Murder on the Menu: www.murderonthemenu.co.uk Television includes The Woman in White, Pobol y Cwm, The Old Devils, Amazing Tales from the Lottery, Glan Hafren, The Real Doctor Frankenstein. Until recently his last major film was the Oscar-nominated “Hedd Wyn”. He is currently playing a priest in “Credo”, a horror film with Stephen Gately, and a sinister lord in “Angel”, a social satire with Julian Glover. Terry’s CV includes: corporate roleplay, comedy impro, museum interpretation, old time music hall chairman, Master of Ceremonies, Chamberlain for Tudor/medieval banquets. Terry is a published and performed playwright, and is Editor of ‘The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English’ published in November 2005 by Routledge: www.meettheauthor.com and www.partridge-slang.com “Delightfully Rude”, an authoritative talk on slang, is available through Writers In Wales/Academi. The “Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English” is due out in May 2007. Regular guest (as lexicographer, commentator on language, book reviewer, music reviewer) on various BBC Radio Wales programmes; slang expert for Radio 5 Live For a full CV and range of images, go to www.terryvictor.co.uk He has the most extraordinary eyebrows. |