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- Writer and actor Ian Kelly's career spans film, theatre and tv from Broadway to London's West End and National Theatre, and from Merchant Ivory to Harry Potter to classics of modern Russian cinema. He is also a bestselling historical biographer, and award winning West End playwright and screenwriter.
He now co-writes with Julian Fellowes (The Rothschilds) as well as developing tv and film projects in France, the UK and USA. His first full length play, Mr Foote's Other Leg, based on his book the same title, broke all box office records at Hampstead Theatre before transferring straight into the West End, directed by Sir Richard Eyre, starring Sir Simon Russell Beale.
Raised in Philadelphia, the West Country and North West of England of British parents, Kelly graduated from both Cambridge University and UCLA's film school on scholarships before embarking on twin acting and writing careers.
Film work includes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and 2 (Hermione's father), The King's Man, Creation, The Children Act, In Love and War, Howards End and the Russian films Admiral Kolchak and Voina (War) - Nominated for Best Actor, Montreal Film Festival
TV work includes Downton Abbey, Sensitive Skin, The Moth, Silent Witness, Hetty Wainthropp, Just William, Beau Brummell, Underworld, Time Trumpet, Drop the Dead Donkey
Theatre work includes (Broadway, West End, National Theatre) The Pitmen Painters (original cast) Mr Foote's Other Leg, A Busy Day. Off Broadway; Cooking for Kings, Beau Brummell. Also: Arcadia (Manchester; Nominated Best Actor), Relative Values, Pygmalion, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Arsenic and Old Lace, Single Spies, Macbeth, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Changeling, Hippolytus.
As a writer: books include biographies of Beau Brummell, Casanova, Antonin Carême, Samuel Foote and the official biography of Vivienne Westwood (co written with Dame Vivienne). Plays include; Mr Foote's Other Leg (Hampstead and West End) Cooking for Kings (Off Broadway) and Playing for Stalin - commissioned for the Salzburg Festival. The scenario of the Kenneth Tindall ballet, Casanova, was written by Kelly, based on his biography of Casanova (Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award, 2017, Sadlers Wells, BroadwayWorld). Kelly is co-writing with Kit de Waal a play for Birmingham Rep on Frank Barber, Britain's first Black schoolteacher. His first radio play, The Painted Hall, was broadcast in 2022 starring Jane Asher and Hugh Bonneville. As a screenwriter, current works include The Rothschilds, for MGMtv, co-writing with Julian Fellowes, Cooking for Kings, (based on the biography of Carême) for l'Insense Films and Endemol Shine, Paris, also Messiah, for SDG Productions, Sundance, ep 2 of Arabia, for MBC Dubai, The Serpent and the Moon, co-writing with Julian Fellowes, Burns, originally for LionsgateUK, Fortunes, for Lionsgatetv, Northcliffe, for Quidem Films, Alexandre Dumas, co-writing with Candace Allen, and an untitled 18th century comedy series for Mercury/Kudos - Actor
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- Ian Kelly is known for Creation (2009).
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Ian Kelly is known for Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show (2024).- Director
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Ian Kelly is known for Soft Lights and Silver Shadows (2023), The Neighbors' Window (2019) and A Night at the Garden (2017).- Art Department
Ian Kelly is known for The Unpardonable Night (2012) and Like Sugar on the Tip of My Lips (2010).- Additional Crew
Ian Kelly is known for Broadway Rising (2022).- Additional Crew
Ian Kelly is known for Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only (2023).- Ian Kelly is known for Hardwork Movement: Take Time (2016).
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Ian Kelly is known for Soother (1999).- Actor
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Ian Kelly is known for Date Night (2017).- Additional Crew
Ian Edward Kelly is known for That Good Night (2017).- Ian Kelly is known for Chrysalis (2006).
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Ian Kelly is known for There's Always Hope (2021).- Ian Kelly is known for The Carver House (2023).
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Ian Kelly is known for Soft Lights and Silver Shadows (2023).- Ian Kelly is known for The Sound of People (2007).
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Ian Kelly is known for (Untitled) (2006) and The Cools (2006).- Additional Crew
Ian Kelly is known for Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (2016).- Ian Kelly is known for Lemon Crush (2016).
- Ian Kelly is known for Roundabout (2014).
- Ian Kelly is known for Zulu 9 (2001).
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Ian Kelly is known for A Most Beautiful Thing (2020).- Actor
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Ian Kelly is known for Eddsworld (2003).- Ian Kelly is known for The Other Side of Madness (1971) and Terror from the Stars (1969).
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Ian K Kelly is known for Downtown Express (2011).- Ian Kelly is known for The Moth (1997).
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Ian Kelly is known for Untitled Picture House Project.- Composer
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Ian Kelly is known for Aerosmith: Rock for the Rising Sun (2013).- Additional Crew
Ian Kelly is known for Ringside (2019) and The Cleaners (2018).- Writer
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Ian Kelly is known for Reins (2013) and Kofi (2011).- Additional Crew
Ian Kelly is known for The Infernal Machine (2022).- Ian Kelly is known for My Brother's Keeper.
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Ian Kelly is known for The Navigator Live (2014).- Additional Crew
Ian Kelly is known for Apple Airpods: Bounce (2019).