Bill Paterson

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

The Witches (1990)

Fleabag (2016)

Miss Potter (2006)

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

William Tulloch Paterson is a Scottish actor who was born on the 3rd of June, 1945 in Glasgow, Scotland. He spent three years as a quantity surveyor's apprentice before attending the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Paterson has appeared in a multitude of films and TV series including Comfort and Joy (1984), Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), The Witches (1990), Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), Wives and Daughters (1999), Sea of Souls (2004–2007), Amazing Grace (2006), Miss Potter (2006), Little Dorrit (2008), Doctor Who (2010), Outlander (2014), Fleabag (2016–2019), Inside No. 9 (2018), Good Omens (2019) Rebecca (2020) and Brassic (2020).

Paterson made his professional acting debut in 1967, appearing alongside Leonard Rossiter in Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. He spent much of the 1970s in John McGrath's theatre company, 7:84, touring the United Kingdom and Europe with plays such as The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil. His first television appearances included the 1978 BAFTA award winning drama Licking Hitler, and playing King James in the UK television serial Will Shakespeare the same year. In 1982, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance as Schweyk in another Brecht play, Schweik in the Second World War at the National Theatre. Much of Paterson’s later work has been for the BBC, starring as Dr Douglas Monaghan in three seasons of the supernatural drama series Sea of Souls (2004–2007), as well as the role of Dr Gibson in the 1999 production of Wives and Daughters. He then appeared in the 2008 BBC production of the Charles Dickens novel Little Dorrit as Mr Meagles, as DS Box in the first series of Criminal Justice (2008), and as Dr James Niven in Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen. From 2009 to 2010, he also appeared as George Castle, the head of the CPS in Law & Order: UK. Paterson played lawyer Ned Gowan in the 2014 Starz period drama series Outlander, and also landed a part as Douglas Henshall's father in the ITV’s crime drama Shetland. In the recurring role, he is best known most recently as the father to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s titular character in the Emmy-winning comedy Fleabag (2016-2019), which was the recipient of the Best Comedy award at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards in 2019. Following Fleabag, Paterson also appeared in several other television series such as the role of Mr. Green in the black comedy anthology series Inside No. 9 (2018), as R.P. Tyler in Neil Gaiman’s fantasy comedy Good Omens (2019), as Roy Lynch in the Scottish thriller Guilt (2019), as Tom Tillerton in Sky One’s dramedy series Brassic (2020), a small voice role in an episode of Apple TV+’s Emmy-winning comedy series Ted Lasso (2021) and as Dr. John Hathaway the Netflix fantasy drama The Sandman (2022), based on the 1989–1996 comic book written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. In 2021, it was announced that Paterson had joined the cast of HBO’s highly-anticipated Game of Thrones prequel fantasy series House of the Dragon. Set to premiere in August of 2022, he will be portraying the role of Lord Lyman Beesbury.