19 Facts About Jeffery Kissoon

Jeffery Kissoon was born on 4 September 1947 and is an actor with credits in British theatre, television, film and radio.

Jeffery Kissoon has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company at venues such as the Royal National Theatre, under directors including Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Robert Lepage, Janet Suzman, Calixto Bieito and Nicholas Hytner.

Jeffery Kissoon has acted in genres from Shakespeare and modern theatre to television drama and science fiction, playing a range of both leading and supporting roles, from Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra and Prospero and Caliban in The Tempest, to Malcolm X in The Meeting and Mr Kennedy in the children's TV series Grange Hill.

Jeffery Kissoon has tutored younger actors, writers and directors, and values the rehearsal process.

Jeffery Kissoon played the lead role in the Mark Norfolk film Ham and the Piper, and directed Norfolk's theatre productions Knock Down Ginger, staged in 2003, Naked Soldiers, 2010 and Where the Flowers Grow, 2011, at the Warehouse Theatre.

Jeffery Kissoon reprised his role as Antony in Suzman's production of Antony and Cleopatra, appearing opposite Kim Cattrall as Cleopatra, at the Liverpool Playhouse in 2010.

Jeffery Kissoon had his first prominent television role playing Sam in Beryl's Lot for Yorkshire Television, after which he played PC Robbins in an episode of Z-Cars and Sonny in a BBC Play for Today titled "Rocky Marciano is Dead".

Jeffery Kissoon portrayed Dr Ben Vincent in seven episodes of Gerry Anderson's science-fiction series Space 1999 between 1976 and 1977.

In 1985, Jeffery Kissoon played Karna in Peter Brook's nine-hour stage adaptation of The Mahabharata.

Jeffery Kissoon is a veteran cast member of both RSC and Royal National Theatre productions, regularly collaborating with director Sir Peter Hall.

Jeffery Kissoon played the lead role in Norfolk's film Ham and the Piper, for which he won the Best Lead Actor Award at the 2012 Peloponnesian International Film Festival, after having directed Ewart James Walters, Elisabeth Dahl and Adam Sopp in Norfolk's play Naked Soldiers at the Warehouse Theatre the previous year.

In 2011, Jeffery Kissoon directed Norfolk's Where the Flowers Grow, again at the Warehouse Theatre.

Jeffery Kissoon reprised his Mark Antony, opposite Kim Cattrall's Cleopatra, in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Janet Suzman and performed at the Liverpool Playhouse, in October 2010.

In 2016 Jeffery Kissoon featured in the Unicorn Theatre's My Father, Odysseus written by Timberlake Wertenbaker and later directed a stunning Hamlet in a contemporary adaptation by Mark Norfolk.

Jeffery Kissoon utilised the ancient African martial art form, Ka Zimba during rehearsals, employing professional drumming and movement practitioners to explore how the breath and the natural spirit combine to conjure up character.

Jeffery Kissoon performed in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Rudy's Rare Records as Rudy's friend Clifton.

Jeffery Kissoon featured in Norfolk's "Broken Chain", a segment of Radio 4's The City Speaks, which is credited as the first "feature film for radio" produced in collaboration with Film London and Arts Council England.

In 2001, Jeffery Kissoon joined the cast of the BBC soap opera, EastEnders, in which he played a friend of Patrick Trueman.

In 2015, Jeffery Kissoon returned to EastEnders, this time playing the part of Judge Anthony Abego who oversees Max Branning's murder trial.