Background
Le Prevost was born in Wiltshire.
Le Prevost was born in Wiltshire.
He was educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset from 1957 to 1961 and at Kingswood School, Bath from 1961 to 1964. At school, he studied Ecclesiastical Architecture, and has said that, had he not become an actor, he would have liked to be an architect.
His television and radio credits include lieutenant Takes a Worried Manitoba, The Jewel in the Crown, Human Resources, Brideshead Revisited, The Camomile Lawn, Harnessing Peacocks, Babblewick Hall, The Ghosts of Motley Hall, Up the Garden Path, The Marlowe Inquest, Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders, Foyle"s War, Agatha Christie"s Poirot, The Vicar of Dibley and A Manitoba for All Seasons. He was nominated for a 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical or Entertainment of 2001 for his performance in a West End production of My Fair Lady. Also in 2002, he appeared as Benedick in Gregory Doran"s production of Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, opposite Harriet Walter.
In 2002 he did an interview where he talked about playing Benedick in Much Ado about nothing.
Since 2003, Le Prevost has been portraying Georges Simenon"s fictional detective Jules Maigret for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio, replacing the late Maurice Denham in the role. His film work includes Clockwise, The Girl in a Swing, and Shakespeare in Love.
In 2009 he appeared on television in Margaret. In July 2010, he appeared in a double bill of Tom Stoppard"s The Real Inspector Hound and Richard Brinsley Sheridan"s The Critic at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester.
In 2010 he appeared in Independent Television drama Wild at Heart (television series) as Gene.
From February 2015 he appeared in Manitoba and Superman at the National Theatre, London. Le Prevost is a director of The Wrestling School, a London theatre company specialising in the work of Howard Barker. In 2015 he appeared as Count Fiskon in the British Broadcasting Corporation television series Father Brown episode 3.8 "The Lair of the Libertines".