Actor looks forward to new Hickstead role

PRESIDENT of the Royal International Horse Show, which takes place at Hickstead this week, is well-known actor Martin Clunes. Many know him from this roles in Men Behaving Badly and Doc Martin, amongst others.

"It is my first visit to Hickstead, and one which I am looking forward to. I was chuffed to bits when I was asked to take on the role, as no-one has asked me to be president of anything before," he said.

Acting was an inevitable career for Martin, who is the son of classical actor Alec Clunes and his mother Daphne was a board member of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art - though it was actor, the late Jeremy Brett, who encouraged him into an acting career.

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Married to Philippa Braithwaite, they have a daughter Emily and live in rural Dorset. Philippa produces the very successful series Doc Martin which is filmed in Cornwall with a fourth run due to go into production in 2011.

He has finished a new series about horses, which involved considerable globe-trotting.

For full feature see Sussex Horse World, West Sussex Gazette July 28

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