Roger Ashton-Griffiths

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Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Roger Ashton-Griffiths (born January 19, 1957 in Hertfordshire , England ) is a British - Canadian film and theater actor and filmmaker .

Life

Ashton-Griffiths, who has dual citizenship of England and Canada, studied musicology at Lancaster University from 1975 to 1978 and was then engaged as a singer at the English National Opera from 1979 to 1981 . In the 1980s, Ashton-Griffiths was a sought-after stage actor, appearing in plays such as Sweeney Todd at theaters in Colchester , Liverpool , Watford , Southampton and Bristol .

Ashton-Griffiths has played numerous supporting roles in film and television since 1982, mostly in British and European productions. Occasionally he has also received roles in Hollywood films, for example in Gangs of New York in 2002 and in Brothers Grimm in 2005 . In 2006, he played the title role of Dr. in the British television film Samuel Johnson: The Dictionary Man. Samuel Johnson . From 2014 to 2016 he was also part of the cast of the hit television series Game of Thrones , in which he played the role of Lord Maes Tyrell .

Ashton-Griffiths also directed two short films. For his second, three-minute film Deflation from 2001, he was able to engage the now internationally known Keira Knightley as the actress.

Roger Ashton-Griffiths is married to Sharmini Thillaimuthu, a native of India, who is in charge of the BBC's studio . He lives with her and their two children in London and Suffolk .

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SURNAME Ashton-Griffiths, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian film and theater actor and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hertfordshire , England , UK