Sometimes gives walking tours of "Theatrical London."
Petherbridge is married to actress Emily Richard, with whom he
costarred in The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby (on stage in
London and New York, and in the TV miniseries); the play The Busman's
Honeymoon; and Pomp and Circumstance.
Has twice been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor
(Featured Role - Play): in 1982, for playing Newman Noggs in "The Life
and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby," a role he recreated in the
television version with the same title, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982); and in 1985 for
playing Charles Marsden in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude,"
a role he also recreated in the television version with the same title,
Strange Interlude: Part 1 (1988).
Currently filming Midsomer Murders. (May 2007)
He was on the shortlist for Lord Trimingham (played by Edward Fox) in The Go-Between (1971).
Acting in the play The Fantasticks, Duchess Theatre, London. (May 2010)
Attended Newby Primary School in West Bowling, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England as a child.