Who is Oz Clarke

Oz Clarke was educated at a famous independent school, The King's School, Canterbury, and later attended Pembroke College, Oxford where he captained the wine-tasting team.

He now lives in West London.

Acting career

Clarke started life as a full time actor and singer working for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal National Theatre, The Old Vic and Chichester. In the West End, he played all the men in the Mitford Girls, Sweeney Todd and Peron in Evita.

He played Hood #4 in the 1978 film Superman, a Special Branch man in Who Dares Wins, and Balthasar in Stuart Burge's 1984 film of Much Ado About Nothing.

Wine career

In 1984 he became a full time writer. He joined the Sunday Express, where Lynn Barber was his ghost writer.[1] He then became wine correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.

In 1985, Clarke won the last World Wine Tasting Championship, making him reigning champion.[2]

He has also written many award-winning books (see below), but to the general public he is perhaps best known for his partnership with Jilly Goolden as the wine experts on the BBC2 Food and Drink programme.

More recently he appeared on Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure with James May and can be heard on BBC Radio 4 The Wine Programme with Andrew Jefford.