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Douglas Hodge (born 1960) is an English actor, director, and musician who trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hodge is a council member of the National Youth Theatre for whom, in 1989, he co-wrote Pacha Mama's Blessing about the Amazon rain forests staged at the Almeida Theatre. Douglas Hodge was born in 1960, in Plymouth, Devon, England. One of his grandmothers was visually impaired, and he is a celebrity supporter of the Royal National Institute of Blind People and its "Talking Books" project and is a regular reader of BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. He has an... MORE

Douglas Hodge (born 1960) is an English actor, director, and musician who trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hodge is a council member of the National Youth Theatre for whom, in 1989, he co-wrote Pacha Mama's Blessing about the Amazon rain forests staged at the Almeida Theatre. Douglas Hodge was born in 1960, in Plymouth, Devon, England. One of his grandmothers was visually impaired, and he is a celebrity supporter of the Royal National Institute of Blind People and its "Talking Books" project and is a regular reader of BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. He has an older brother who "manages a construction firm." Douglas and his family moved to Wigmore near Gillingham, Kent during the 1960s. He attended Fairview Primary School and from there The Howard School in Rainham, Kent. His partner is actress Tessa Peake-Jones, and they have two children: a daughter (born 1991) and a son (born c.2001). They live near Oxford. Hodge has achieved great success on stage in plays by Harold Pinter, including No Man's Land at the Comedy Theatre in February 1993; Moonlight at the Almeida Theatre in September 1993; A Kind of Alaska, The Lover and The Collection at the Donmar LESS