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Miles Anderson Born Miles Anderson
23 October 1947
RhodesiaMiles Anderson (born 23 October 1947) is a Zimbabwean actor. He has lived in England and America for the last 40 years.
He was born in 1947 in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Educated at Prince Edward school, his father commanded the Rhodesian Army until dismissed by Premier Ian Smith for his stance against racism and a Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Great Britian. His mother Daphne Anderson is the author of the acclaimed autobiography, The Toerags.
He has appeared in the US TV series, "Criminal Minds", as well as the ongoing ITV's Ultimate Force as Colonel Aiden Dempsey. He had previously played Lt. Col. Dan Fortune (this time a Regular "green" Army officer) in ITV's Soldier Soldier (series 1 and 2 only, 1991–92) and as Captain Bannock in Sky Bandits. He was awarded the 1982 London Critics' Circle Drama Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor of 1981 for his performances in The Twin Rivals and The Witch of Edmonton.
His numerous performances for television include Fall of Eagles, Z-Cars, The Sweeney. Campion, House of Cards, Oliver's Travels and Holby City. Anderson has also appeared in two episodes of Midsomer Murders entitled "Death In Disguise" and "Last Year's Model". Most recently he was seen as Major Marchbanks in the BBC adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke and he appeared in 2007 in the sixth series of the crime-drama Waking the Dead.
In 2008, he made a brief appearance as Edward Tunstall in the BBC's flagship soap, EastEnders.
He is an associate member of RADA.
Miles is also the father of actor Joe Anderson and Max Anderson the World 2006 and 2009 Streetboard Champion.
In 2009, he also narrated the popular New Zealand documentary TV program The Lion Man. He also appeared in an episode of A Touch of Frost' broadcast on ITV: "Penny for the Guy". In 2009, he guest starred briefly as Dr Nichols in the American TV program Criminal Minds.
In the summer of 2010, Miles appeared as the titular character in The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett (which was made into the film The Madness of King George in 1994) mounted by renowned director Adrian Noble at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. For this highly acclaimed performance he won the San Diego's Critics' Circle award for Best Actor. In the summer of 2011, he plays to sell-out houses in the Old Globe's productions of THE TEMPEST - playing Prospero - and AMADEUS - playing Salieri, both directed by Adrian Noble.
He currently lives in Los Angeles, USA, with his partner, Bella Merlin, world-renowned actor and actor-trainer, and author of books including the best-selling THE COMPLETE STANISLAVSKY TOOLKIT and ACTING: THE BASICS.
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