also played Charlie in the spin-off shows Holby City and HolbyBlue. It was revealed in July 2017, that Thompson was the BBC's highest-paid actor, earning between £350,000 and £400,000 over the last financial year. Family As of 2010, Thompson and his wife, Dee, lived in a rented flat in Bristol and also own a house in Brixton. The couple have a son, who appeared as a baby in one 1990 episode of Casualty as the son of regular character Duffy, and he also has an older son by a previous marriage to Christine, a theatre director. A sufferer of dystonia, Thompson became patron of the Dystonia Society in 2006. Theatre Strawberry Fields WC/PC The Bells of Hell The Garden of England Serjeant Musgrave's Dance The Cherry Orchard The Passion Dispatches The Mysteries Weapons of Happiness Lavender Blue Has Washington Legs School for Scandal Selected filmography References External links 1948 births Male film actors from Northern Ireland Male television actors from Northern Ireland Living people Male actors from Belfast 20th-century male actors from Northern Ireland 21st-century male actors from Northern Ireland