Everything about Peter Polycarpou totally explained
Peter Polycarpou is a
British stage and TV
actor. He played Chris Theodopolopoudos in the hugely successful TV series
Birds of a Feather.
He was the first actor to play the role of John in the musical
Miss Saigon. He was an original cast member of the musical
Les Misérables, and has played The Phantom in
Andrew Lloyd Webber's
The Phantom of the Opera. Stars opposite whom he's acted include
Madonna in the film version of
Evita directed by
Alan Parker, and
Hugh Jackman in
Oklahoma! directed by
Trevor Nunn.
Kevin Kline and
Ashley Judd in
De-Lovely. He has also appeared in the UK première of The Woods by
David Mamet at the
Finborough Theatre, London. He has appeared in several TV soaps including
The Bill,
Holby City,
Casualty and
Waking the Dead.
In February 2006, Polycarpou appeared in
EastEnders, playing Yannis Pappas, father-in-law of character
Carly Wicks for 3 episodes. More recently he played a leading role in the movie
O Jerusalem, released in 2007. He also starred in Vicki Psarias's short film Broken, playing the lead Solomon. This 35mm film was funded by The Tower Hamlets and Hackney Film Fund and The Hellenic Foundation, London and tells the story of a Greek Cypriot immigrant family in London. He wrote and co-directed his own short film with ex-musician and long time friend John Hoare, whose own web site can be found at
mandy.com
. The film called Mad George, can be viewed on-line
here
and is semi-autobiographical. It has shown at several International Film Festivals.
Recent work includes the part of Gash in
Bryony Lavery's play Last Easter directed by
Douglas Hodge at the Door Theatre in Birmingham and the leading of Daniel Warshowvsky in the new musical [ Imagine This soon to transfer to Londons' West End.
He is a member of the
Green Party
and once stood for local election in the Muswell Hill ward. He is patron of the
United Kingdom Thalassaemia Society
and has run in the
London Marathon three times.
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