Jeffery Kissoon (born 4 September 1947) is an actor with credits in
British theatre, television, film and radio. He has performed with the
Royal Shakespeare Company at venues such as the Royal National
Theatre, under directors including Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Robert
Lepage, Janet Suzman, Calixto Bieito and Nicholas Hytner. He has acted
in genres from Shakespeare and modern theatre to television drama and
science fiction, playing a range of both leading and supporting roles,
from Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra and Prospero and Caliban in
The Tempest, to Malcolm X in The Meeting and Mr Kennedy in the
children's TV series Grange Hill.A regular director of theatre,
Kissoon is a member of the board of directors of the Shared Experience
company and the Warehouse Theatre in Croydon, London. He has tutored
younger actors, writers and directors, and values the rehearsal
process. He played the lead role in the Mark Norfolk film Ham and the
Piper (2012), and also directed Norfolk's theatre productions Knock
Down Ginger, staged in 2003, Naked Soldiers, 2010 and Where The
Flowers Grow, 2011, at the Warehouse Theatre. He reprised his role as
Antony in Suzman's production of Antony and Cleopatra, appearing
opposite Kim Cattrall as Cleopatra, at the Liverpool Playhouse in
2010.Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Kissoon emigrated to London with his
parents at an early age. While attending the Christopher Wren School
in Shepherd's Bush, he joined the student drama group. In 1970, under
Robert Tanitch and Eric Rickman, he made his first appearance as an
actor in the film Like You, Like Me, an inter-racial romance. Jeffery Kissoon Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter