Date of birth: 1966
Place of birth: London (but spent much of his childhood in Ireland)
Marital status: Married, with two children
Charley Boorman’s first film role was as Ed’s Boy, Jon Voight’s son, in Deliverance, which was directed by his father John Boorman. Since then, he has appeared in Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory and more recently Karaoke, The Serpent’s Kiss and The Bunker.
Charley spent a lot of his childhood riding motocross bikes. From 1998 to 2002, he ran a British motorcycle team with Ewan McGregor, winning the Superstock series with David Jeffries.
In 2004 he travelled around the world with Ewan, and the subsequent TV series Long Way Round became a best-selling book and DVD. Afterwards Charley went straight on to another biking adventure – tackling the Dakar Rally which was chronicled in another successful TV series, book and DVD titled ‘Race to Dakar’. Married with two daughters, Charley rides a Ducati 748 and lives in London.