stephen dillane
“the show is pretty brutal. I couldn’t watch much of that anyway. It’s hardcore, Too tough for me. the whole world of it is pretty overwhelming. I don’t dismiss it at all. I think it’s fantastic. I think it’s an extraordinary thing. A really amazing phenomenon.”
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Stephen John Dillane is a British actor who was born on the 27th of March, 1957 in Kensington, London. Stephen studied history and politics at the University of Exeter, concentrating on the Russian Revolution, and afterward became a journalist for the Croydon Advertiser. Unhappy in his career, he read one day how actor Trevor Eve gave up architecture for acting; this, along with reading Hamlet and Peter Brook's The Empty Space back-to-back, made him "light up inside somewhere" and spurred him to enter the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at the age of 25.
Dillane is an experienced theatre actor; his notable roles include Archer in The Beaux' Stratagem (Royal National Theatre, 1989), Prior Walter in Angels in America (1993), Hamlet (1994), Clov in Samuel Beckett's Endgame (1996), Uncle Vanya (1998), Henry in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing (for which he won a Tony Award in 2000), The Coast of Utopia (2002), and a one-man version of Macbeth (2005) directed by Travis Preston. He has also performed T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets in London and New York City, and was seen in the 2010 Bridge Project's productions of The Tempest and As You Like It.
Dillane also portrayed Horatio in the 1990 film adaptation of Hamlet. He played Michael Henderson in Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), a character based on British journalist Michael Nicholson, and the impatient and easily agitated Harker in Spy Game (2001). He is also known for his portrayal of Leonard Woolf in The Hours (2002), legendary English professional golfer Harry Vardon in The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) and Glen Foy in the Goal! trilogy. He also starred in John Adams as Thomas Jefferson. Stephen joined the cast of Game of Thrones in 2011 as Stannis Baratheon, a major contender for the throne of the fictional realm of Westeros. While admitting he had not read the books on which the series is based, he commented that the show's appeal was due to "the storytelling, the extraordinary world that’s created and the way it reflects our actual world – a naked, ruthless pursuit of power in all its forms."
Besides television, Dillane also starred in the 2012 British independent film Papadopoulos & Sons as successful entrepreneur Harry Papadopoulos, who rediscovers his life after being forced to start again from nothing in the wake of a banking crisis. His son, Frank Dillane, plays his son in the film. That same year he also had roles in the films Zero Dark Thirty and Twenty8k. In 2016, besides appearing in the second series of The Tunnel, Dillane returned to the Donmar Warehouse for a revival of Brian Friel's Faith Healer. His performance as Frank, an itinerant Irish healer, was described as "poetic and powerful." In addition, he appeared as artist Graham Sutherland in The Crown, Netflix's TV series about British monarch Elizabeth II. In 2017, Dillane appeared in two biopics, playing Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax in Joe Wright's Darkest Hour, starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, and writer William Godwin, the father of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley, in the film Mary Shelley. In 2018 he shot the film "The Thin Man" which has since been retitled The Man In The Hat, opposite Ciarán Hinds directed by Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck.
FILMOGRAPHY
2020-2021 Alex Rider (TV Series)
Alan Blunt (15 episodes)
2021 Boxing Day
Richard
2021 Red Election (TV Series)
William Ogilvy (10 episodes)
2021 Vigil (TV Series)
Shaw (6 episodes)
2020 The Man in the Hat
The Damp Man
2019 The Professor and the Madman
Dr. Richard Brayn
2018 Outlaw King
King Edward I of England
2013-2018 The Tunnel (TV Series)
Karl Roebuck (24 episodes)
2017 Mary Shelley
Mr. Godwin
2017 Darkest Hour
Viscount Halifax
2016 The Crown (TV Series)
Graham Sutherland (1 episode)
2012-2015 Game of Thrones (TV Series)
Stannis Baratheon (24 episodes)
2013 A Touch of Cloth (TV Series)
Macratty (2 episodes)
2012 Joint Enterprise
Raglin
2012 Zero Dark Thirty
National Security Advisor
2012 Secret State (TV Mini Series)
Paul J. Clark
2012 Hunted (TV Series)
Rupert Keel (8 episodes)
2012 Papadopoulos & Sons
Harry Papadopoulos
2012 Murder (TV Mini Series)
Arlo Raglin
2012 Twenty8k
DCI Stone
2012 Eternal Law (TV Series)
Carl (2 episodes)
2011 Perfect Sense
Stephen Montgomery
2010 Marple (TV Series)
Finch (1 episode)
2009 44 Inch Chest
Mal
2009 Storm
Keith Haywood
2008 The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (TV Movie)
Anthony Hurndall
2008 God on Trial (TV Movie)
Schmidt
2008 Freakdog
Dr. Harris
2008 John Adams (TV Mini Series)
Thomas Jefferson
2007 Fugitive Pieces
Jakob Beer
2007 Savage Grace
Brooks Baekeland
2007 Goal II: Living the Dream
Glen Foy
2006 Klimt
Secretary
2005 The Greatest Game Ever Played
Harry Vardon
2005 Goal! The Dream Begins
Glen Foy
2005 Nine Lives
Martin
2004 Haven
Mr. Allen
2004 King Arthur
Merlin
2002 The Gathering
Simon Kirkman
2002 The Hours
Leonard Woolf
2002 The Truth About Charlie
Charlie
2001 Spy Game
Charles Harker
2001 The Parole Officer
Inspector Burton
2001 The Cazalets (TV Series)
Edward Cazalet (6 episodes)
2000 Anna Karenina (TV Mini Series)
Karenin
2000 Ordinary Decent Criminal
Noel Quigley
1999 Love & Rage
Dr. Croly
1999 The Darkest Light
Tom
1998 Kings in Grass Castles (TV Mini Series)
Patsy
1997 Déjà Vu
Sean
1997 Firelight
Charles Godwin
1997 Welcome to Sarajevo
Michael Henderson
1996 Two If by Sea
Evan Marsh
1995 Performance (TV Series)
Mr. Blackmore (1 episode)
1994 Power and Lovers
Antonio
1994 The Rector's Wife (TV Mini Series)
Jonathan Byrne
1993 Soldier Soldier (TV Series)
Captain Mike Davidson (1 episode)
1993 You, Me and It (TV Mini Series)
James Woodley
1992 Hostages (TV Movie)
Chris Pearson
1992 Frankie's House (TV Movie)
Antony Strickland
1991 Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series)
Philip Blackstock (1 episode)
1991 Boon (TV Series)
Paul Lyle (1 episode)
1991 Sophie (TV Movie)
John
1990 Hamlet
Horatio
1989 The Yellow Wallpaper (TV Movie)
John
1989 Comeback (TV Movie)
Alec
1988 Christabel (TV Mini Series)
Peter Bielenberg
1988 The Face of Trespass (TV Movie)
Gray Harston
1988 Business as Usual
Mr. Dunlop
1987 The Secret Garden (TV Movie)
Captain Lennox
1987 Bulman (TV Series)
DC Danny Keech (1 episode)
1986 Coronation Street (TV Series)
Mark Siddall (1 episode)
1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
Bradford Galt