Michael Portillo
Acting
Born 1953-05-26 · Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative politician. He was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1984.
Known for
7.0
This Week
2003 · TV
7.4
Great British Railway Journeys
2010 · TV
8.3
Great American Railroad Journeys
2016 · TV
8.3
Great Continental Railway Journeys
2012 · TV
7.2
Great Coastal Railway Journeys
2022 · TV
7.8
Great Asian Railway Journeys
2020 · TV
7.0
Great Canadian Railway Journeys
2019 · TV
6.0
This World
2004 · TV
Great Japanese Railway Journeys
2026 · TV
8.0
Portillo's Hidden History of Britain
2018 · TV
5.6
Question Time
1979 · TV
Portillo's State Secrets
2015 · TV
8.5
Coastal Devon & Cornwall with Michael Portillo
2021 · TV
8.0
Michael Portillo's Long Weekends
2024 · TV
7.2
Great Australian Railway Journeys
2019 · TV
7.0
Portugal with Michael Portillo
2025 · TV
7.0
Portillo's Andalucia
2023 · TV
Spain with Michael Portillo
2026 · TV
7.0
Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo
2014 · TV
7.0
Great Alaskan Railroad Journeys
2019 · TV
8.0
The Pyrenees with Michael Portillo
2022 · TV
7.3
Portillo's Empire Journey
2020 · TV
6.0
Great Indian Railway Journeys
2018 · TV
Great Korean Railway Journeys
2026 · TV
Great Central Asian Railway Journeys
2026 · TV
7.0
Prague with Michael Portillo
2024 · TV
10.0
Hawks and Doves: The Crown and Ireland's War of Independence
2020 · TV
7.0
Portillo: The Trouble with the Tories
2019 · TV
7.4
Natural World
1983 · TV
Michael Portillo's 200 Years of the Railways
2025 · TV
8.7
The Supersizers...
2008 · TV
7.0
Great Railway Journeys
1980 · TV
7.0
Great Britons
2002 · TV
Perspectives
2011 · TV
4.4
The One Show
2006 · TV
Parkinson
1998 · TV