Greg Wise

Greg Wise

1966-05-15 Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK 37 Credits

Biography

Greg Wise (born Matthew Gregory Wise) is a British stage, film and television actor who appeared in many supporting roles in British television series' as well as feature films, most notably as John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility. He later married actress Emma Thompson in 2003.

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Early Works

Early Works

2020

as Edward Hughes

Acting

A teenage girl forgets to do her English homework, and hands in a plagiarized poem. Her lie spins out of control and propels her to a national stage a...

Carmilla

Carmilla

2020

as Mr. Bauer

5.8
Acting

Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine....

Military Wives

Military Wives

2020

as Richard

6.5
Acting

Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base. As unexpected...

After Louise

After Louise

2019

as Bob

8.5
Acting

Kath, a shy young woman, befriends Bob, the reclusive gardener at a seaside hotel where she's getting married. Kath has never come to terms with her m...

A Private War

A Private War

2018

as Professor David Irens

6.8
Acting

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conf...

Beautiful Devils

Beautiful Devils

2017

as James Lacey MP

6.2
Acting

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's Othello set within the music scene of East London. Oz and Ivan are lifelong friends and music producers. When Oz g...

Love of My Life

Love of My Life

2017

as Ben

5.1
Acting

What if you had only five days to figure out... everything.

Blackwood

Blackwood

2014

as Dominic

5.9
Acting

Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hopin...

Walking on Sunshine

Walking on Sunshine

2014

as Doug

6.3
Acting

Set to the music of popular hit songs from the 1980s. A beautiful coastal village, present day Italy. After a whirlwind romance, Maddie is preparing t...

Unknown Heart

Unknown Heart

2014

as Duncan

4.3
Acting

A fatal accident changes the destiny of two families when Elizabeth Lancaster's wish comes true and she receives the heart transplant she desperately ...

Three Days in Havana

Three Days in Havana

2014

as Harry Smith

4.5
Acting

A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.

Effie Gray

Effie Gray

2014

as John Ruskin

5.9
Acting

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

Honeymoon for One

Honeymoon for One

2011

as Sean Hughes

6.1
Acting

A woman finds out her fiancé has been cheating on her so she ends her engagement just a week before the wedding. She embarks on an unexpected adventur...

The Song of Lunch

The Song of Lunch

2010

Producer

6.5
Producing

A dramatisation of Christopher Reid's narrative poem that tells the story of an unnamed book editor who, fifteen years after their break-up, is meetin...

Morris: A Life with Bells On

Morris: A Life with Bells On

2009

as Villandry

6.5
Acting

The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.

The Disappeared

The Disappeared

2008

as Jake Ryan

5.8
Acting

Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming bac...

Number 13

Number 13

2006

as Professor Anderson

6.3
Acting

In order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, Oxbridge academic Anderson stays at a local hotel in room 12, initially disregard...

Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

2006

as Peter Higgins

2.0
Acting

Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere fig...

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby

2005

as Minister Lee

5.4
Acting

This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.

A Cock and Bull Story

A Cock and Bull Story

2005

as Greg

6.2
Acting

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opin...

Five Moons Plaza

Five Moons Plaza

2003

as Francesco Doni

5.5
Acting

Just the night before his retirement District Attorney Saracini is given a film showing the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. As the District Attorney takes o...

Johnny English

Johnny English

2003

as Agent One

6.3
Acting

A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown...

Hornblower: Loyalty

Hornblower: Loyalty

2003

as Major Côtard

7.2
Acting

Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.

Hills Like White Elephants

Hills Like White Elephants

2002

as The American

Acting

Hills Like White Elephants is a 2002 short film based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's story was published in 1927 in the second collection...

The Discovery of Heaven

The Discovery of Heaven

2001

as Max Delius

6.5
Acting

Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. T...

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

2000

as Rodolphe

6.3
Acting

A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on...

Mad Cows

Mad Cows

1999

as Alex

3.6
Acting

When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up...

Africa

Africa

1999

as Josh Sinclair

4.2
Acting

A troubled supermodel struggles to survive after a car accident leaves her stranded in the African bush.

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass

1998

as Red Knight

5.1
Acting

A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story...

Judas Kiss

Judas Kiss

1998

as Ben Dyson

5.7
Acting

The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.

Hospital!

Hospital!

1997

as Dr. Jim Nightingale

5.0
Acting

Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital. A "Naked Gun" type comedy from Britain, this one-off special was made spe...

The Place of the Dead

The Place of the Dead

1997

as Corporal Hugh Brittan

5.3
Acting

It was one of the last unexplored places on Earth; a terrifyingly deep gully in the heart of the Borneo jungle. It was the ultimate challenge – to cli...

The Moonstone

The Moonstone

1996

as Franklin Blake

7.0
Acting

Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective...

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

1995

as John Willoughby

7.4
Acting

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When H...

Feast of July

Feast of July

1995

as Arch Wilson

5.9
Acting

After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.

Typhon's People

Typhon's People

1993

as Cato Macgill / Adam Prime

Acting

A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway t...

A Masculine Ending

A Masculine Ending

1992

as Jamie Baird

Acting

While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a...