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Martin Kemp

Birth nameMartin Kemp
BornSeptember 10 1961 (1961--) (age 46)
Islington, London, England
Died
Spouse(s)Shirlie Holliman
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Martin John Kemp (born 10 October 1961), brother of Gary Kemp, is an English actor and former pop musician. He was born in Islington, London.

Career

In the 1980s he and his brother Gary Kemp had a great deal of success in the New Romantic band Spandau Ballet. Their most popular album was titled True. He also performed on the popular 1984 famine relief project song Do They Know It's Christmas, written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure.

He and his brother Gary branched out into acting in 1990, both of them appearing in the British film The Krays in which they played the notorious gangster twins, Ronald and Reginald Kray. Their performances received a great deal of critical acclaim.

Since The Krays, Martin Kemp has been in the public eye more than his brother. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1990s and made appearances in television series such as The Outer Limits and Highlander. He also appeared in several Hollywood films such as (1992) and Embrace of the Vampire (1994).

In 1995 he moved back to the UK and took a break from acting for a short while after recovering from a brain tumour. He then had a guest appearance in the ITV police drama series The Bill in 1998. He went on to became popular for his role as villain Steve Owen in the BBC's top soap opera, EastEnders from 1998 to 2002. His character was involved in some of the soap's highest rated story lines such as the Saskia Duncan murder and Who Shot Phil?. By the time he left the series, he was one of the best-known faces on British television.

He then switched over to ITV where he starred in several television dramas such as The Brides in the Bath in which he played real-life murderer, George Smith and Can't Buy Me Love opposite fellow EastEnders star Michelle Collins which was based on a true story about a man who conned his wife and friends into believing he had won the lottery. In 2006 he starred in a two-part ITV television drama thriller titled Love Lies Bleeding and made a guest appearance in an episode of the murder mystery television series Marple.

Martin Kemp is now the face of ScS, a UK home furnishings company. He was featured on the company's 2006 television advertising campaign and on their website. He is advertising for them still in 2007 for their Easter Campaign.

A low-budget British film titled Back in Business was released in February 2007 which Martin Kemp also stars in , however it was a limited release and one month later was released on DVD.

In 2007 Kemp founded his own production company.

Personal life

Martin Kemp has been married to Shirlie Holliman since 1988. Holliman is a former back up singer of the group Wham! and one-half of the 1980s pop duo Pepsi and Shirlie. The couple have a son and daughter together. Martin Kemp is also patron of the UK and Ireland charity, The Encephalitis Society, and at the time of becoming patron confirmed that he had controlled epilepsy since the 1990s, as a result of having two brain tumours. The Society is the only resource in the world that provides information globally on the disease and its consequences. Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain usually as a result of infection or an inappropriate auto immune response. Following the tumours, Kemp had a protective metal plate implanted over his brain under the scalp. It is unnoticeable but not undetectable - during an appearance on the Frank Skinner Show in 2002, Kemp jokingly remarked that he could never slip quietly through metal detectors at airports, as the plate would set the alarm off. Kemp is a vegetarian. [1]

Selected Filmography

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Gary Kemp (born 16 October 1959, in Islington, London) is an English pop artist who was the guitar player and chief songwriter for the 1980s New Romantic band Spandau Ballet. His brother Martin Kemp played bass guitar in the band.
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Spandau Ballet were a popular English band in the 1980s. Initially inspired by a mixture of funk and synthpop, the genre-defining New Romantic group eventually mellowed into a mainstream pop act. As with their rivals Duran Duran they 'broke America', albeit briefly.
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True was the third studio album by British New Romantic band Spandau Ballet, released in 1983. It was heavily influenced by jazz, soul, and R&B. It reached #1 on the UK charts, the top twenty in America and in numerous countries around the world.
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Robert Frederick Xenon Geldof[1], KBE[2], known as Bob Geldof (born 5 October 1951) [3], is an Irish singer, songwriter, actor and political activist.
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Midge Ure OBE (born James Ure, 10 October 1953, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a rock and roll guitarist, singer, keyboard player and songwriter from Scotland, who had particular success in the 1970s and 1980s.
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The Krays

Directed by Peter Medak
Produced by Dominic Anciano
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Written by Philip Ridley
Starring Martin Kemp
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Tom Bell
Music by Michael Kamen
Cinematography Alex Thomson
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Ronald "Ronnie" Kray (24 October 1933 – 17 March 1995) and Reginald "Reggie" Kray (24 October 1933 – 1 October 2000) were identical twin brothers, and the foremost organised crime leaders in London's East End during the 1950s and 60s.
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Steven Richard "Steve" Owen was a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was played by Martin Kemp.

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When Steve first arrived in 1998, he had bought the Market Cellar, which he had renovated and named E20.
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