Ian Kelly

Ian Kelly is a British actor and biographer.

Biography

Kelly studied at Cambridge University and UCLA Film School.

He has appeared in "The Pitmen Painters" at the National Theatre and "A Busy Day" in London's West End and in New York in his own one-man plays and also in the US premiere of Ron Hutchinson's Beau Brummell in the title role. He was nominated for Best Actor for his work in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (Manchester Drama Awards)

Kelly has published biographies of Antonin Careme, Beau Brummell and Casanova and written for most of the British broadsheets and New York Times. He is a contribuiting editor of Food Arts Magazine.

TheBBC Television drama "" was based on his biography. Other TV work includes Dennis Potter's Cold Lazarus, Drop the Dead Donkey, Silent Witness, Just William, Catherine Cookson's The Moth, Sensitive Skin and Time Trumpet.

Film work includes Merchant-Ivory's Howards End, Richard Attenborough's In Love & War and the Russian films Admiral Kolchak and Alexei Balabanov's Voina [War] shot in Chechnya and the Caucasus for which Ian was nominated for Best Actor at the Montreal International Film Festival.

His biography of Beau Brummell was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Award.

Bibliography

* cite book
date = Sep 25, 2003
title = Cooking for Kings: The Life of the First Celebrity Chef
last = Kelly
first = Ian
publisher = Short Books, London (hardcover)
id = ISBN 978-1904095200
* cite book
date = Oct 10, 2005
title = Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Dandy
last = Kelly
first = Ian
publisher = Hodder & Stoughton (hardcover)
id = ISBN 978-0340836989
* cite book
date = Jun 26, 2008
title = Casanova: Actor Lover Priest Spy
last = Kelly
first = Ian
publisher = Hodder Paperbacks (hardback)
id = ISBN 978-0340922149

External links

* [http://www.iankelly.net/Site/Home.html Official website]
* [http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/35553/company-members/ian-kelly.html Kelly biography] at the National Theatre