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Big in America
Tony Head is one of the biggest british TV actors in America. Here a nice article about him... |
Anthony Head, age 52
Dollar rating: About £4.3m, based on earnings of $50,000 per episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for its 144-show run.
It all happened over a cup of coffee. The Camden-born actor came to fame on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 1980s for his starring role in the Nescafe Gold Blend adverts (known as Tasters' Choice, state-side). Wider recognition earned him a role in a new American television series about a high school student who keeps vampires at bay between lessons. Buffy the Vampire Slayer became one of the most popular shows of the 1990s, with Head playing the part of the professorial Rupert Giles, a "watcher" whose job is to tutor the show's eponymous star in how to kill her fanged foes.
Head, whose family continued to live in Britain while he filmed across the pond, returned to the UK after Buffy ended in 2001. He has since appeared in Doctor Who and Hotel Babylon.
Why he's so fang-tastic: Smooth, dark, moody, just like the instant coffee he plugged so successfully, Head met all the requirements of a British character in the American television universe by playing a donnish father figure with just a hint of the night about him.
The other famous british TV actors:
Hugh Laurie (Dr. House), Naveen Andrews (Lost), Alex Kingston (ER), Simon Cowell (American Idol), Jane Leeves (Frasier), Gordon Ramsay (Hell's Kitchen), Ricky Gervais (The Office), Ian McShane (Deadwood) and Parminder Nagra (ER)
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