Robert Glenister

It was announced in November 2019, that he would guest star in the twelfth series of Doctor Who, appearing as Thomas Edison in the fourth episode, Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror, first broadcast on January 19, 2020.

In April 2019, it was reported that lawyers acting for a company owned by Glenister - Big Bad Wolff - had lost an appeal in a long-running battle with HM Revenue and Customs regarding liability for National Insurance contributions. Glenister subsequently said that he would have to sell or remortgage his house as a result of the ruling, since he now faced a bill of £147,000 plus interest. As of January 2020; Glenister has sold properties and paid off the debt.

He appeared as an Irish-American mob boss in Ben Affleck's crime drama Live by Night, which was released in December 2016.

Glenister married actor Amanda Redman in 1984; the couple had one child together, daughter Emily, before they divorced in 1992. He later married BBC Radio producer and director Celia de Wolff.

Glenister made his first television appearance in the sitcom Sink or Swim in 1980. He has also appeared in shows such as Soldier Soldier, Doctor Who (in the serial The Caves of Androzani, opposite his Sink or Swim co-star Peter Davison), Only Fools and Horses (as Myles the millionaire garden centre owner and chairman of the SWANS committee), A Touch of Frost and Hustle as Ash Morgan, as well as several films.

Robert Lewis Glenister (born 11 March 1960 in Watford, Hertfordshire) is a British actor known for his roles as con man Ash "Three Socks" Morgan in the BBC television series Hustle and Nicholas Blake in the BBC spy drama Spooks.