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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Early Works
2020
as Edward Hughes
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
2020
as Mr. Bauer
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
2020
as Richard
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
2019
as Bob
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
2018
as Professor David Irens
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
2017
as James Lacey MP
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
2017
as Ben
What if you had only five days to figure out... everything.
Blackwood
2014
as Dominic
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
2014
as Doug
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
2014
as Duncan
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
2014
as Harry Smith
A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.
Effie Gray
2014
as John Ruskin
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Honeymoon for One
2011
as Sean Hughes
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
2010
Producer
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
2009
as Villandry
The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.
The Disappeared
2008
as Jake Ryan
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
2006
as Professor Anderson
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
2006
as Peter Higgins
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
2005
as Minister Lee
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
2005
as Greg
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
2003
as Francesco Doni
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
2003
as Agent One
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
2003
as Major Côtard
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
2002
as The American
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
2001
as Max Delius
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
2000
as Rodolphe
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
1999
as Alex
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
1999
as Josh Sinclair
A troubled supermodel struggles to survive after a car accident leaves her stranded in the African bush.
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
as Red Knight
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
1998
as Ben Dyson
The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.
Hospital!
1997
as Dr. Jim Nightingale
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
1997
as Corporal Hugh Brittan
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
1996
as Franklin Blake
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
1995
as John Willoughby
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
1995
as Arch Wilson
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
1993
as Cato Macgill / Adam Prime
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
1992
as Jamie Baird
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...