Stephen Dillane

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Stephen Dillane at the Dinard British Film Festival (2012)

Stephen Dillane (born March 27, 1957 in London , England ) is a British actor who has won BAFTA awards .

Live and act

Stephen Dillane was born in Kensington, London, to Bridget and John Dillane. His father, a surgeon , was from Australia and his mother was a native of England. Dillane first studied history and politics at the University of Exeter and then worked for the Croydon Advertiser as a journalist for a short time . He then turned to acting and studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School.

While he was involved in many feature film productions in the 1990s, it was his theater roles that made him famous, such as his Hamlet (1994) directed by Peter Hall. As early as 1990 he had in Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet to Horatio played. He also won his role as Henry in Tom Stoppard's The real thing , for which he received the Evening Standard Award (London), the Variety Club Showbusiness Award (London), the Drama Desk Award (Broadway) and the New York Tony Award .

From 2004 to 2005 he toured worldwide ( Los Angeles , London, Sydney ) with a solo production of Macbeth . In November and December 2006 he was back on stage at London's Royal Court Theater in the world premiere of the new play by Caryl Churchill Drunk enough to say I love you? .

Fugitive Pieces , the film adaptation of Anne Michaels ' novel Escape Pieces , opened the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007 . John Adams was in March to April 2008 by the US broadcast television channels HBO. God on Trial is a BBC Scotland production that was shown on British television in late 2008 and at the Jewish Film Festival in Berlin in May 2009 . For the role of father Anthony Hurdall in The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall , Dillane received the British Academy Television Award in the category: Best Actor in April 2009 . He gained greater fame through his participation in the award-winning series Game of Thrones (2012-2015), in which he played Stannis Baratheon until the end of the fifth season.

His son Frank Dillane (* 1991) played in the film adaptation of JK Rowling's novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) the role of Lord Voldemort as a student at Hogwarts. Stephen Dillane's younger brother Richard Dillane is also an actor.

Dillane lives in Sussex with his wife, a stage actress and head of a theater company, and their second, almost adult, offspring.

Filmography

Stephen Dillane (2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bafta television awards 2009
  2. ↑ Portrait: Stephen Dillane, à la gauche du Trône , Liberation of March 13, 2016 (French)
personal data
SURNAME Dillane, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK