Background
He was born to architect parents in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and was educated at the independent Street Peter"s School, New York
He was born to architect parents in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and was educated at the independent Street Peter"s School, New York
Wise then moved to Glasgow where he studied drama at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
He has appeared in many British television works, as well as several feature films (notably the role of John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility). He went to Heriot-Watt University to study architecture, and performed with the Edinburgh University Theatre Company. He then travelled in the Far East.
His television work includes four British Broadcasting Corporation period dramas: The Moonstone with Keeley Hawes, the Buccaneers alongside Carla Gugino, Madame Bovary with Frances O"Connor, The Riff Raff Element in 1992 and 1993, and as Sir Charles Maulver in the 2007 five-part series Cranford.
Recently he filmed a number of readings of love scenes from a selection of classic and modern love scenes, from Thomas Hardy"s Tess of the d"Urbervilles to Kiran Desai"s The Inheritance of Loss for The Carte Noire Readers. In 2011, he appeared in Hallmark Channel"s Honeymoon for One, starring Nicollette Sheridan.
Greg Wise made his theatrical return starring in Brad Fraser"s Kill Maine Now at Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, London from Thursday 19 February – Sunday 29 March 2015. In July 2015, Wise played the role of emotionally distanced father Gilbert Aldridge in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s two-part television adaptation of Sadie Jones’ debut novel The Outcast.
