Martin Kemp

Martin Kemp is an English musician and actor from London who learned to play bass in three months to join his brother Gary's group the Gentry, which became Spandau Ballet. Four of the band's albums reached the UK top ten and True gave them a first number one album and single; they split in the early 1990s and announced a reunion and world tour in 2009. Having acted as a child at the Anna Scher Theatre drama club, he returned to acting in 1990 with Gary in The Krays, playing the gangster twins Ronald and Reginald to critical acclaim. Work in Los Angeles followed, including The Outer Limits, Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992) and Embrace of the Vampire (1995). From 1998 to 2002 he played the villain Steve Owen in EastEnders, winning a National Television Award and British Soap Awards, and he later directed the feature Stalker.