Peter Wingfield | The Queen of Swords

Peter Wingfield | The Queen of Swords

Doctor Robert Helm

The original biography for Peter Wingfield...

Peter Wingfield
Peter Wingfield plays Robert Helm, an English doctor who trades his musket for a scalpel, vowing to saves lives, not to take them, on QUEEN OF SWORDS. Helm has little patience for Tessa, believing her to be a spoiled member of the upper class, and even less for the QUEEN OF SWORDS, despising the blades with which she dispenses justice. Yet he keeps finding himself strangely attracted to the beautiful avenger in black.

Wingfield was on the verge of completing his medical training when he realized that he did not want to be a doctor and dropped out of his medical studies to pursue an acting career. As a child in Cardiff, Wales, he studied drama at the National Youth Theatre, and later resumed his dramatic training years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Then, simply because he knew how to drive, Wingfield landed his first acting role and debuted in Beeban Kidron’s Antonia and Jane.

He has since become a British television staple, having starred in countless productions over the past ten years, including the series Medics, Soldier Soldier, Antonia Bird’s The Men’s Room, Lifeboat, Nice Day at the Office and Noah’s Ark, the mini-series Into the Fire, Martin Chuzzlewit and Crocodile Shoes, and the telefilms Six Characters in Search of an Author, Trust Me, Alun Lewis: Death and Beauty in the title role, Degas and Pissaro Fall Out, Murder in Mind and Over Here. American audiences know and love Wingfield as Methos, the oldest living Immortal on the cult hit Highlander: The Series. Other U.S. television credits include guest spots on The Sentinel, Viper, Strange World and Cold Feet.

In addition to Antonia and Jane, Wingfield has appeared in the feature film Uncovered, directed by Jim McBride. He will reprise the role of Methos for the upcoming feature Highlander: Endgame.

While starring in numerous television and film productions, Wingfield found time to remember his stage roots, appearing in Point Valaine at the Chicester Festival Theater, The Rules of the Game at the Almelda Theatre and The Game of Love and Chance for the Gloria/Cambridge Theater Company. And if television, film and stage were not enough, for two years in the mid-1990s, Wingfield played Simon Pemberton on the long running BBC radio drama The Archers.

The Welsh actor excelled at athletics as a young man, becoming a national trampoline champion and representing Wales in the national club finals for pole-vaulting. He continues to involve himself in sports, particularly marathon running. Wingfield also plays the saxophone and the flute.

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The original biography for Peter Wingfield...
	Peter Wingfield Peter Wingfield plays Robert Helm, an English doctor who trades his musket for a scalpel, vowing to saves lives, not to take them, on QUEEN OF SWORDS. Helm has little patience for Tessa, believing her to be a spoiled member of the upper class, and even less for the QUEEN OF SWORDS, despising the blades with which she dispenses justice. Yet he keeps finding himself strangely attracted to the beautiful avenger in black.
Wingfield was on the verge of completing his medical training when he realized that he did not want to be a doctor and dropped out of his medical studies to pursue an acting career. As a child in Cardiff, Wales, he studied drama at the National Youth Theatre, and later resumed his dramatic training years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Then, simply because he knew how to drive, Wingfield landed his first acting role and debuted in Beeban Kidron’s Antonia and Jane. He has since become a British television staple, having starred in countless productions over the past ten years, including the series Medics, Soldier Soldier, Antonia Bird’s The Men’s Room, Lifeboat, Nice Day at the Office and Noah’s Ark, the mini-series Into the Fire, Martin Chuzzlewit and Crocodile Shoes, and the telefilms Six Characters in Search of an Author, Trust Me, Alun Lewis: Death and Beauty in the title role, Degas and Pissaro Fall Out, Murder in Mind and Over Here. American audiences know and love Wingfield as Methos, the oldest living Immortal on the cult hit Highlander: The Series. Other U.S. television credits include guest spots on The Sentinel, Viper, Strange World and Cold Feet. In addition to Antonia and Jane, Wingfield has appeared in the feature film Uncovered, directed by Jim McBride. He will reprise the role of Methos for the upcoming feature Highlander: Endgame. While starring in numerous television and film productions, Wingfield found time to remember his stage roots, appearing in Point Valaine at the Chicester Festival Theater, The Rules of the Game at the Almelda Theatre and The Game of Love and Chance for the Gloria/Cambridge Theater Company. And if television, film and stage were not enough, for two years in the mid-1990s, Wingfield played Simon Pemberton on the long running BBC radio drama The Archers. The Welsh actor excelled at athletics as a young man, becoming a national trampoline champion and representing Wales in the national club finals for pole-vaulting. He continues to involve himself in sports, particularly marathon running. Wingfield also plays the saxophone and the flute.