Iain Glen

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“the show has been transformative to all our acting lives. thrones became a family, it feels like a family. it’s just indicative of the laugh that we have, the fun that we have doing it. i loved the role, i loved the people and i’ll find it really hard to let it go.”

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

Titans (2021)

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

The Flood (2019)

Iain Glen is a Scottish actor, born June 24, 1961, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys, followed by the University of Aberdeen. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he was the winner of the Bancroft Gold Medal. He and his first wife, Susannah Harker, from House of Cards (1990), Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Ultraviolet (1998), have a son named Finlay. They divorced in 2004. He met Charlotte Emmerson at the National Theatre while he was performing Streetcar Named Desire with Glenn Close. They have two children, Mary and Juliet and were married in the summer of 2017.

Iain immediately rose to prominence in 1988 with his acclaimed performance as a charismatic gang leader in The Fear TV series, followed by his multi-award winning tour de force as imprisoned Scottish poet Larry Winters in Silent Scream in 1990. In the same year he was cast as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, in Tom Stoppard's film adaptation of his play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He was nominated in 1998 for an Olivier Award for his performance in The Blue Room opposite Nicole Kidman. He also received Olivier nominations for Martin Guerre (1996), and The Crucible (2006). Glen has been described as, "The greatest Scottish theatre actor of his generation."

It was announced in 2009 that Glen would star as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He starred in all eight seasons of the show, which has gone on to win more Emmys than any prime time TV show in the history of the awards. In 2010, he played the role of Father Octavian in a two-episode story which formed part of the fifth season of Doctor Who. In 2011 he appeared in the second series of Downton Abbey, as Sir Richard Carlisle, a tabloid publisher who is a suitor to, and subsequently engaged to, Lady Mary. He was a member of the Outstanding Ensemble that won the SAG award in 2013. Further television credits include Wives and Daughters (1999), The Diary of Anne Frank (2009), Delicious (2016-2019), Glasgow Kiss (2000) and Prisoners Wives (2012-2013). Other film credits include Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Mountains of the Moon, Song for a Raggy Boy, Eye in the Sky, My Cousin Rachel, and The Iron Lady, opposite Meryl Streep. In 2004, Glen played the role of Dr. Alexander Isaacs in Resident Evil: Apocalypse and later reprised the role in Resident Evil: Extinction, as well the concluding film of the franchise, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. He has also played the title character in the Irish TV crime series Jack Taylor (2010), adapted from the novels by Ken Bruen. Since 2019, Glen can be seen playing the DC character of Bruce Wayne in the teen superhero series, Titans.