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“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.”



ALSO KNOWN FOR

The Hours (2002)

Spy Game (2001)

Darkest Hour (2017)

The Tunnel (2014)


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