Christien Anholt
{{short description|English actor}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Christien Anholt
| birth_name = Christien Alexis Anholt
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|2|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place = London, England, UK
| father = Tony Anholt
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1988–present
}}
Christien Alexis Anholt (born 25 February 1971) is an English stage, television and film actor best known for portraying Nigel Bailey{{Citation|title=Relic Hunter|date=2021-08-07|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Relic_Hunter&oldid=1037563503|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2021-08-24}} in the television series Relic Hunter.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-25-ca-14081-story.html |title=The Los Angeles Times |publisher=Articles.latimes.com|date=25 September 1999|access-date=25 February 2014|newspaper=Los Angeles Times |last1=Linan |first1=Steven }}{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/1822/Christien-Anholt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203104949/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1822/Christien-Anholt|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 December 2007|title=The New York Times|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|date=2007|accessdate=25 February 2014}}
Early life
Anholt was born in London. He is the son of Anthony Anholt (19 January 1941 – 26 July 2002) and Sheila Anholt (née Willet), a teacher whom he married in 1964.{{Cite web|title=Tony Anholt|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1402981/Tony-Anholt.html|access-date=2021-08-24|website=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{Cite news|date=2002-07-30|title=Howard's Way star dies at 61|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2161946.stm|access-date=2021-08-23}}
Career
He was working as an assistant in the gardening department at his local B&Q store in Chiswick when he received the news that he had landed the role that began his acting career in 1988 in Reunion. He was then cast as 'Leonard / Jeremy Lands' in the Harold Pinter play Another Time. He went on to play 'Marcelus' alongside Mel Gibson in the Franco Zeffirelli film Hamlet (1990).{{Cite journal|last=Aune|first=M. G.|date=2019-10-02|title=Ophelia's Space: Characterizing Shakespeare's Women in Popular Film|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2018.1559132|journal=Journal of Popular Film and Television|volume=47|issue=4|pages=198–206|doi=10.1080/01956051.2018.1559132|issn=0195-6051}} He starred opposite Kate Beckinsale, Sam Neill and Judy Davis in the Hallmark production One Against the Wind, and alongside Stephen Dorff in The Power of One, directed by John G. Avilsden.
His earlier notable film roles include Peter Emery in Stuart Urban's Preaching to the Perverted (1997).{{Cite journal|last=Khan|first=Ummni|date=2009-01-01|title=Putting a Dominatrix in Her Place: The Representation and Regulation of Female Dom/Male Sub Sexuality|url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/cjwl.21.1.143|journal=Canadian Journal of Women and the Law|volume=21|issue=1|pages=143–175|doi=10.3138/cjwl.21.1.143|issn=0832-8781}}{{Cite web|title=Preaching to the Perverted (1997)|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/film/m9r8s/preaching-to-the-perverted/|access-date=2021-08-24|website=Radio Times|language=en}} In 2021, Anholt played T. S. Eliot in William Nunez's The Laureate depicting the life of British poet and writer Robert Graves.{{Cite web|date=2021-01-17|title=Interview: Director William Nunez on Bringing The Laureate to Screen|url=https://25yearslatersite.com/2021/01/17/interview-director-william-nunez-on-bringing-the-laureate-to-screen/|access-date=2021-08-24|website=25YL|language=en-US}}
Steven Spielberg selected Anholt to play Clive Owen's brother in the TV series pilot Class Of '61. He appeared in the BBC's Money For Nothing. He has been featured in Seventeen opposite Rachel Weisz, in Hard Times opposite Richard E. Grant and Sir Alan Bates, and in The Harpist. This was followed by Preaching to the Perverted, The Ruby Ring, and in George Milton's Appetite. Anholt returned to the West End in Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love and was cast by Harold Pinter and director David Jones opposite Pinter himself, in The Hothouse.{{IMDb name|0030021}}
In 1999 Anholt was cast as Nigel Bailey in Relic Hunter which ran for three seasons. After that Anholt guest starred in two episodes of Adventure Inc, alongside Michael Biehn, and had a cameo in The Conclave. He appeared opposite James Franco and Jean Reno in the World War One drama Flyboys, and can be seen alongside Thora Birch in Dark Corners. In 2007 Anholt appeared in the movie, Ben 10 Race Against Time, in which he played an alien called 'Eon'. In more recent years he appeared in several short movies such as Severed Garden, Ghosted and Meanders.
In 2014 Anholt returned to the stage and since then he has appeared in numerous plays such as Blue Bird, Wastwater, Dog Ends, Montagu, The Two Faces of Agent Lacey, The Trial of Jane Fonda, and Permanence. He also appeared on the small screen in Doctors and Holby City. He also does voice-over work such as in The Rise and Fall of Hitler.
Other endeavours
= Philanthropy =
During the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 UK lockdowns, Anholt took part in Lisa Ross' "Bedtime in Barnes" initiative by the OSO Arts Centre joining local celebrities including Alistair McGowan, Virginia McKenna, Anneka Rice and astronaut Helen Sharman.{{Cite web|date=2020-07-09|title=Local Hero: Lisa Ross - Time & Leisure magazine Hero Awards|url=https://www.timeandleisure.co.uk/local-hero-lisa-ross/|access-date=2021-08-23|website=Time & Leisure|language=en-GB}} He was filmed reading four of his favourite children's stories (Pa's Soft Spot by D. A. Ellsworth; One, Two, Three! by Henry Cuyler Bunner; The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear and Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll){{Citation|title=Bedtime in Barnes {{!}} Christien Anholt reads 'The Owl and the Pussycat' and 'Jabberwocky'|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwVBs9YB7hw|language=en|access-date=2021-08-23}} to help support the centre's Crisis Kitchen helping provide 10,000 meals for local people in need and the national initiative launched by Theatres Trust to prevent the permanent closure of hundreds of UK theatres.{{Cite web|title=#SaveOurTheatres - OSO Arts Centre Barnes|url=https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/save-oso-arts-centre|access-date=2021-08-23|website=Crowdfunder UK|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2020-04-09|title=Bedtime in Barnes: The Oak and the Dragon|url=https://barnescommon.org.uk/bedtime-in-barnes-the-oak-and-the-dragon/|access-date=2021-08-23|website=Friends of Barnes Common|language=en-GB}}
= Advertising =
In 2017, Anholt was chosen for Dubai Properties JBR's advertising campaign shot in Dubai and Abu Dhabi with billboards seen internationally on tourism sites such as on the Sheikh Zayed Road as well as commercials playing worldwide. The original YouTube upload of the commercial has almost 5 million views as of August 2021.{{Citation|title=1/JBR - It's not for everyone|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o4Fp1Nko1Y |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211214/9o4Fp1Nko1Y |archive-date=2021-12-14 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2021-08-23}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite web|title=This Is The Funniest Ad Dubai Has Seen In Quite Some Time And People Are Talking|url=https://staging.lovin.co/dubai/en/news/this-is-the-funniest-ad-dubai-has-seen-in-quite-some-time|access-date=2021-08-23|website=staging.lovin.co}}
Personal life
Anholt lives in London.
Filmography
=Film=
= Television =
=Shorts=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title !Director ! Role ! class="unsortable" |Notes |
|---|
| 2015
|Severed Garden |Gonçalo Almeida |Frank |Also features Elisa Lasowski & Jean Baptiste Fillon.{{Citation|title=Severed Garden (Short 2015) - IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3990614/|language=en-US|access-date=2021-08-24}} |
| 2016
|Ghosted |Neville Pierce |Nigel |Also features Alice Lowe & Ray Panthaki.{{Citation|title=Ghosted (Short 2016) - IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5036124/|language=en-US|access-date=2021-08-24}} |
| 2018
|Meanders |Tereza Srbova |The Ultimate Lover |Also features Hannah Dean & Rupert Ratcliffe.{{Citation|title=Meanders (Short 2018) - IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7062586/|language=en-US|access-date=2021-08-24}} |
| 2020
|Newton's Third |Katie Blamires |Leon Newton |Also features Etta Fusi & Jamie McKie.{{Citation|title=Newton's Third (Short 2020) - IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11291516/|language=en-US|access-date=2021-08-24}} |
=Voice=
Theatre
= Actor =
= Director =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Title !Author !Role ! class="unsortable" |Venues & Notes |
| 2016
|Actor & Director |Tabard Theatre. The rotating cast included Selina Giles, Mark Griffin, Tom Holloway and Phillipa Peak. Two Shillings & Sixpence Productions.{{Cite web|title=Welcome to The Tabard Theatre|url=http://www.tabardweb.co.uk/wastwater.htm|access-date=2021-08-23|website=www.tabardweb.co.uk}}{{Cite web|date=2016-06-08|title=Wastwater by Simon Stephens at the Tabard|url=https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/wastwater-by-simon-stephens-at-the-tabard|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-23|website=London Theatre Guide|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823183602/https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/theatre-news/news/wastwater-by-simon-stephens-at-the-tabard |archive-date=2021-08-23 }} |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0030021}}
- {{Twitter|ChristienAnholt}}
- {{Rotten Tomatoes person|christien_anholt}}
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Category:Male actors from London
Category:English male film actors
Category:English male television actors
Category:English expatriate male actors in the United States