Ian Kelly (actor)

Ian Kelly (born 16 January 1966) is a British writer and actor. His works include historical biographies, stage and screenplays.

Born in Cambridge, England, in 1966, Kelly is the second son of Professor Donald Kelly and Patricia Ann Kelly. He was brought up in Philadelphia, Bristol, and the Wirral.

Kelly studied at Cambridge University and UCLA Film School.

He played Hermione Granger's father in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1. He has appeared in The Pitmen Painters at the National Theatre on Broadway and in the West End 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), and for Alexei Balabanov's Voyna (War), shot in Chechnya and the Caucasus, he was nominated for Best Actor at the Montreal International Film Festival.

Kelly has published biographies of Antonin Careme, Beau Brummell and Casanova, and Samuel Foote (Mr. Foote's Other Leg, 2012) and written for most of the British broadsheets and the New York Times. He is a contributing editor of Food Arts Magazine. His biography of Vivienne Westwood, written with Dame Vivienne, came out in October 2014.

The BBC Television drama Beau Brummell: This Charming Man 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.

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