ESTATE AGENT TO DOUBLE AGENT: His career climb has included a six-month stint of holding ladders for trapeze artists and throwing batons at jugglers with a performing circus in Budapest, Hungary. Actor Richard Armitage has appeared in hitgh-profile costume dramas - including roles as the brooding John Thornton in North & South and villainous Guy of Gisborne in the BBC’s Robin Hood series. He was double agent Lucas North - a renegade member of MI5 in the popular TV hit Spooks. But few may realise that while at drama school in a decade of reaching for the stars, the 43-year-old spent three years as an estate agent. He has some homespun advice from that period in his life that proved interesting. He admits: You can really study people. You see them when they are moving into their new house which is usually a really good day for them and when theyre leaving their house - which is often not such a good day. Richard added: The whole idea of finding a place to live and building a home is at the centre of life. The largest proportion of our income is on our home. This coming Friday sees the Leicester-born television and movie heart-throb back in action on the big screen as Thorin Oakenshield, leader of the dwarves, in Peter Jackson ’s The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies. Definitely worth a viewing . . .
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:42:23 +0000
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