Dear Lupin

About Charlie MortimerRoger Mortimer

Roger Mortimer was born in 1909 and educated at Ludgrove Eton and Sandhurst. In 1930 he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards. He fought at Dunkirk in 1940 was captured and spent the remainder of the war as a POW. After resigning from the army in 1947 he became racing correspondent for The Sunday Times for almost thirty years. He wrote several classic books on racing including The History of the Derby. He met Cynthia Denison-Pender in 1947 and married the same year. They had two daughters: Jane and Louise and one son Charles. Roger died in 1991. Charlie Mortimer was educated (reluctantly) at Eton. Now describing himself as a middle-aged middle-class spiv (mostly retired) amongst other things he was in the Coldstream Guards a vintage-car restorer oil-rig roughneck and pop-group manager as well as a boatboy/mechanic in Africa car salesman in California manufacturer of boxer shorts in Asia and an antiques dealer. He now lives in West London with his partner. Michael Simkins is an actor and author and is a familiar face both on TV and on the West End stage. Musicals include Sam Carmichael in Mamma Mia! Billy Flynn in Chicago Paul in Sam Mendes award-winning production of Company (Donmar Warehouse and Noël Coward Theatre) and Oh! What a Lovely War at Stratford East. In 2011 he fulfilled a lifelong ambition by appearing in a Gilbert and Sullivan spectacular on Friday Night is Music Night. Theatre credits include Hay Fever (Duke of Yorks Theatre) Yes Prime Minister (UK tour and Trafalgar Studios) Donkeys Years (Harold Pinter Theatre) Mary Stuart (Apollo Theatre) and Democracy (Wyndhams Theatre). In addition Michael has appeared in hundreds of TV dramas usually as policemen or unsuspecting husbands. Film credits include The Iron Lady V for Vendetta and Topsy-Turvy. Michael is also a best-selling author journalist and broadcaster. Books include Whats My Motivation the Costa-nominated Fatty Batter Detour de France The Last Flannelled Fool and most recently The Rules of Acting. He is a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph and The Times as well as Radio 4s Today and Front Row. Dear Lupin is his first play.