GREGORY PAUL MARTIN
The eldest son of Beatles producer Sir George Martin, actor/writer/director/producer Gregory Martin grew up inside Abbey Road Studios, witnessing first-hand the creation of the greatest popular music of all time, receiving his first kiss at the age of three from Sophia Loren during his father’s recording of the song Goodness Gracious Me for the Peter Sellers movie The Millionairess.
A member of The National Youth Theater alongside Daniel Day Lewis, Gregory trained at the Royal Academy of Art with Alan Rickman, beginning his stage career at The Bristol Old Vic, later starring in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Old Vic, King Lear at The Young Vic, and the world premiere of Bent at The Royal Court opposite Ian McKellen.
Making his American debut opposite Kevin Spacey in Barrie Keefe’s Barbarians at New York’s Soho Rep, he received the biggest financial offer in the history of television – the equivalent of $27 million in today’s money – to star in Dynasty for a period of three years while playing the leading role in Ibsen’s Peer Gynt at the world renowned Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, turning the offer down in favor of a starring role in the CBS mini-series Ellis Island opposite Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Burton, and Faye Dunaway.
Accepting an offer from Universal Television to create and write his own series, he came within a hair's breadth of playing the coveted role James Bond in The Living Daylights, losing the role to Timothy Dalton because at 27 the producers considered him too young. Later that year he starred in a production of Hamlet at The Alliance Theater, Atlanta, Georgia.
In the early ‘90s he sold his first screenplay to Sony Pictures for BAFTA winning director Carl Franklin (Dahmer), subsequently selling several others to blue chip producers like Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Rock.)
in 2025 Gregory's film, television and music production and management company will produce Strange Days, a dark comedy feature about Jim Morrison of The Doors, The Circus, an epic musical television dramedy set in the glory days of rock n' roll, and Golden Boy, the story Diego Maradona's notorious period at Napoli under club President Corrado Ferlaino.