Robert Guy Bathurst (born 22 February 1957) is an English actor. Bathurst was born in the
Gold Coast in 1957, where his father was working as a management consultant. His family moved to
Dublin,
Ireland, in 1959 and Bathurst was enrolled at an
Anglican boarding school. In 1966, the family moved to England, and Bathurst transferred to
Worth School in
Sussex, where he took up amateur dramatics. At the age of 18, he read law at the
University of Cambridge and joined the
Cambridge Footlights group. After graduating, he took up acting full-time.