Jeremy Brudenell

Jeremy Alexander Rothwell Brudenell is a retired British actor of the 1980s and 1990s.

Early life

Jeremy Alexander Rothwell Brudenell was born in Hammersmith, London on 2 April 1960, the second son of physician John Michael Brudenell and Mollie, née Rothwell.

Acting career

He appeared as James Steerforth in David Copperfield, Charles Warden in Fortunes of War, Louis Bonaparte in Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story, Jean-Louis in Wish Me Luck, Sebastian Pearce in The House of Eliott, Ken Bernhard in The Bill, Robert de Valicourt/Nicholas Ward in Highlander: The Series, Bill Truscott in A Dance to the Music of Time, Thaddeus Arnold in The Enid Blyton Secret Series, and Father in Alice in Wonderland. He also appeared in Massacre Play, a 1989 Italian thriller-drama film.
Brudenell's stage roles include Time and the Conways at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, The Circle at the Theatre Royal, Bath, Venus Observed at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Paul in Double Take at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, and Edmund in King Lear at the Young Vic.

Later life

After professionally retiring from acting in 1999 Brudenell began a business career, and opened the 'Root One Garden Centre' in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

Personal life

Brudenell married Edwina Hicks, the granddaughter of Lord Mountbatten of Burma, on 24 March 1984 at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. The couple had a son and two daughters before their divorce in 2004:

Maddison May Brudenell, a model, married in 2015 Olaoluwa Modupe-Ojo; they were separated in 2023. They have three children. She married in 2024 Bret Kapetanov. They have one son together;
* Daphne Modupe-Ojo
* Phebe Modupe-Ojo
* Moses Modupe-Ojo
* Michael Adam Kapetanov
Jordan Anne Brudenell, a freelancer. She graduated in graphic communication at Bath Spa University;
Rowan Michael David Brudenell