Colin Salmon began his acting career in 1992 with the role of Sergeant Oswalde opposite Helen Mirren, in the second of her hugely successful series of television films Prime Suspect. He went on to star in many British television shows including Shine on Harvey Moon (1995) and Soldier, Soldier (1996) before landing the role of M’s Chief of Staff, Charles Robinson in the 1997 Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, the first of Pierce Brosnan’s Bonds. Amongst many other starring roles on television and in film, he repeated the role of Robinson in two further Bond movies, The World is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002) prompting high speculation that on Brosnan’s retirement from the role he would take over as the first black James Bond.

He has since starred in several more hit television series including, Hex (2005), Bad Girls (2006) and Party Animals (2007). Amongst an almost bewildering number of movie roles destined to hit screens in the