1. Robson Golightly Green was born on 18 December 1964 and is an English actor, singer-songwriter, and television presenter.
29 Facts About Robson Green
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Robson Green then went on to portray Fusilier Dave Tucker in the ITV military drama series Soldier Soldier, between 1991 and 1995.
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Robson Green currently plays Detective Inspector Geordie Keating on ITV's Grantchester.
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Robson Golightly Green was born on 18 December 1964 in Dilston Hospital in Hexham, Northumberland, and grew up in Dudley, a small mining village south of Cramlington.
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Robson Green's father, named Robson Green, was a miner, and his mother Anne was a cleaner and shopkeeper.
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Robson Green was named in the Northeast tradition of naming the first son after family surnames: Robson was his paternal grandmother's maiden name, while his middle name, Golightly, is the surname of his maternal grandmother, Cissie Golightly, daughter of William Golightly, a miner and well-known trade union leader in the 1920s.
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Robson Green learned to play the guitar, later forming his first band, Solid State, in 1982.
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Robson Green spent one night a week at the Backworth Drama Centre, and appeared in a series of productions at both school and Backworth.
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Robson Green attended three boxing training sessions for the play Francie Nichol, in which he played a boxer.
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Robson Green first made his name as an actor in the BBC series Casualty but, after three series, moved to national prominence as fusilier Dave Tucker in the drama series Soldier Soldier.
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Robson Green has since produced or co-produced most of Green's television work, as well as local productions at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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In 2002, Robson Green starred as clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill in the crime drama Wire in the Blood.
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In 1995, Robson Green won the Smash Hits Poll Winner's Party award for Favourite TV Actor.
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In 1997, Robson Green starred in the TV film, The Student Prince which is no relation to either the Romberg operetta or the 1954 MGM film.
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In July 1998, Robson Green received an honorary degree from the University of Northumbria and, in September 2006, he was voted by the UK general public at No 35 in a poll of TV's greatest stars.
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In 2000, Robson Green starred with James Bolam, Susan Jameson, Kerry Ann Christiansen and Jamie Bell in the ITV drama Close and True.
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In 2002, Robson Green starred with Caroline Goodall in the TV movie Me and Mrs Jones.
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In 2003, Robson Green starred in the ITV mini-series Unconditional Love and in the BBC television series Trust.
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In 2010 Robson Green had a major role in the television film Joe Maddison's War.
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In July 2010, Robson Green began filming the seventh series of BBC drama Waterloo Road appearing from May 2011 to July 2011.
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In 2011, Robson Green starred in the third series of the BBC Three show Being Human in which he played a werewolf named McNair.
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In 2013 and 2015, Robson Green starred in the fourth and fifth series of the war-drama series Strike Back, as Lt Colonel Philippe Locke, a former SAS operative.
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In March 2016, during an appearance on The One Show, Green confirmed he would present a new series for ITV called Tales from the Coast with Robson Green, which began airing in January 2017.
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Robson Green presented a one-off documentary Robson Crusoe: A Surprising Adventure and a six-part series called Robson Green's Coastal Lives, both for ITV.
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Robson Green has been an outspoken critic of Jimmy Carr for using a tax avoidance scheme in 2012.
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Robson Green was brought up in Ashington where his father was a miner.
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Robson Green is a supporter of Newcastle United and a season ticket holder at the club.
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Robson Green was introduced to occupational therapist Alison Ogilvie by his close friend, television director Andrew Gunn.
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Robson Green met his second wife, former Page 3 model Vanya Seager, while recording "Unchained Melody" at BMG Records in 1995.