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Gerald Roderick Charles Dickens (born 9 October 1963) is a British actor and performer known in the United Kingdom and the United States for his one man shows based on the novels of his great-great-grandfather, Charles Dickens. He was the President of the Dickens Fellowship from 2005 to 2007.〔''The Dickensian'' No. 482 Vol. 106 Part 3 Winter 2010 pg 285〕 ==Life and career== Born in Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent, the fourth child and second son of David Kenneth Charles Dickens (1925–2005) and his wife Betty (1927–2010), Gerald Dickens is the grandson of Sir Gerald Charles Dickens RN (after whom he was named) and the great-grandson of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens KC; he is also the cousin of author Monica Dickens, biographer and writer Lucinda Hawksley and actor Harry Lloyd.〔(Dickens Family Tree website )〕 Dickens attended Huntleys Secondary School for Boys in Tunbridge Wells in Kent and West Kent College. Inspired to be an actor by a performance of ''Nicholas Nickleby'' by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Gerald Dickens first performed his solo version of ''A Christmas Carol'' in America in 1993,〔(Dickens's biography on Jackprises.com )〕 returning annually to perform at historic hotels, libraries, theatres and Dickens festivals. In 2009, Dickens' American tour included such Christmas companies as Vaillancourt Folk Art〔(Dickens Performing at Vaillancourt Folk Art )〕 and Byers Choice〔(Dickens Performing at Byers Choice )〕 and has yielded national and local press.〔('A Real Dickens' (Telegram and Gazette) )〕〔(Hear The Radio Interview )〕 Based on the readings performed by Charles Dickens himself during his own British and American tours, Gerald Dickens performs extracts from ''The Pickwick Papers'', ''David Copperfield'', ''Oliver Twist'', ''Great Expectations'', ''Nicholas Nickleby'' and ''A Christmas Carol'' among others,〔(Dickens on the Lichfied Garrick Theatre website )〕 in the latter creating 26 characters in a performance described by ''The New York Times'' as "a once in a lifetime brush with literary history."〔(Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities website )〕 Dickens has recorded unabridged audiobooks of ''The Pickwick Papers''〔(Classic FM website )〕 and ''Nicholas Nickleby''. In December 2011 he appeared on the BBC's ''Songs of Praise''.〔(BBC ''Songs of Praise''- 'A Dickensian Christmas' 11 December 2011 )〕 A keen golfer, he wrote and performs the two-act play ''Top Hole!'', based on four golfing stories by P. G. Wodehouse. In 2015 at the Music Box Theatre in Minneapolis he played Charles Dickens in Jeffrey Hatcher's one-hander ''To Begin With'', which was adapted from Dickens' ''The Life of Our Lord''.〔(Review: Dickens commands stage in world premiere 'To Begin With' - ''Star Tribune'' - 24 February 2015 )〕〔(Review of ''To Begin With'' on talkinbroadway.com )〕〔('What the Dickens? Local playwright wrote “To Begin With,” starring Gerald Dickens' - ''Minnesota Daily'' - 19 February 2015 )〕 Dickens lived in Goudhurst in Kent with his former wife Lucy Marsh, and with whom he had a son, Cameron. He married his long-term partner Liz Hayes, a pianist who sometimes accompanies his performances, on 10 August 2015. They live in Abingdon in Oxfordshire. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerald Charles Dickens (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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