Kris Marshall played DI Humphrey Goodman in BBC crime drama Death in Paradise for three years, and the entertainer has since been in its spin-off show Beyond Paradise
Kris Marshall is pictured as Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman in Death in Paradise(Image: BBC/Red Planet Pictures/Denis Guyenon)
Actor Kris Marshall left crime drama Death in Paradise because he wanted to see more of his children.
But the 52-year-old entertainer now spends up to five months of the year away from the family home — while he films for its spin-off Beyond Paradise, recorded in Devon and Cornwall. The show sees Kris’ character, Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman, move back to follow the love of his life in the show Martha, played by Sally Bretton.
Speaking ahead of the fourth series of Beyond Paradise, which starts on Friday, father-of-two Kris said: “We only film Monday to Friday, but they’re 14-hour days. Then it’s a four-hour drive home so I don’t come home every weekend. My kids are growing up. They’ve got their own lives.”
But the actor, born in Bath, Somerset, enjoys the arrangement and says he and his family have thrived since he returned to the UK. Death in Paradise is set and filmed on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
Kris continued: “Actually, I love it. I get the beauty of seeing my family every other weekend, but then I also get the solitude I enjoy at the end of a really hard working week. I rent the same place every year in a wonderful village (near where Beyond Paradise is filmed). It’s on a beach that isn’t touristy because it’s quite rocky, but it’s got a wonderful little surf break there.”
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In Beyond Paradise, DI Goodman is based at a police station in the fictional village of Shipton Abbott. Production in Cornwall is long and meticulous, though Kris embraces time with his wife Hannah when he returns to the family home in the New Forest.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, he said: “You have to relearn each other’s ways. It’s difficult. Let’s not beat around the bush. It’s an extremely blessed job when you’ve got your own show, you’re looked after and solitude is something you turn to.
“Time on your own, not having to do school drop-offs and all the things that come with family life. But you always have to remember how to be a parent when you come back, which is difficult because to me it is all about a light touch on the tiller.
“You lose your humour when you’re away. Parenting is all about not taking things too seriously, because otherwise you’re constantly fighting battles and everyone gets exhausted.”
Kris, who was Nick in sitcom My Family for five years, left Death in Paradise in 2017. The entertainer has been in Beyond Paradise since its beginning in 2023.
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