Richard Dillane

Richard Dillane
Born	Richard Dillane 1964 England
Occupation	Actor
Spouse	Jayne McKenna, actress

Richard Dillane is an English actor. He appeared as Merv, the husband of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson) in Jim Loach's fact-based movie Oranges and Sunshine, as Wernher von Braun in the BBC television docudrama Space Race, as Nero in Howard Brenton's play Paul at the National Theatre of GB and as Stephen Maturin in the adaptations of the Patrick O'Brian "Aubrey–Maturin" novels and as Peter Guillam in three John le Carré adaptations, both for BBC Radio 4.

Other film work includes The Dark Knight (as Acting Commissioner), The Edge of Love, The Jacket, Tristan & Isolde and as Cole Porter's last lover Bill Wrather (a composite character) in Irwin Winkler's biopic De-Lovely which starred Kevin Kline. Other television work includes playing the captain of the shape-changing justice robot Teselecta in the 2011 series of Doctor Who, rogue spy John Richardson in Spooks, Australian conman Graham Poole in Hustle, photographer and old flame Miles Brodie in Cold Feet (UK version), posh drug addict Theodore Platt in the first episode of Lewis and the relationship counsellor Ben in Men Behaving Badly (UK version) as well as regular characters surgeon Sean Anderson in Casualty (BBC) and Australian sergeant Brad Connor in the award winning ITV series Soldier Soldier.

Dillane has played at the National Theatre in London and the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. At 24 he played Hamlet in Perth, Australia directed by Ray Omodei and in 2000 was Duke of Suffolk in the Olivier-award winning Michael Boyd productions of Henry the Sixth parts 1, 2 and 3 in Stratford, London and Michigan. He recently played Trenchard Voysey in The Voysey Inheritance for BBC Radio 4 and will appear as Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck's upcoming movie Argo currently in production.

He grew up near London, took a philosophy degree at Manchester University and lived in Australia for ten years working in Perth and Sydney as both actor and director before returning to the UK. He is married with two children.

Radio

Date	Title	Role	Director	Station
02005-03-033 March 2005	The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch	Narrator	Lu Kemp	BBC Radio 3 The Wire
02006-12-3131 December 2006 – 02007-01-077 January 2007	Resurrection	Dmitri Nikhloydov	Lu Kemp	BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial
02007-04-022 April 2007 – 02007-04-066 April 2007	Captain Starlight's Apprentice	Ariel	Lu Kemp	BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Drama
02007-08-1414 August 2007	Cut to the Heart	Stuart	Kirsty Williams	BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play
02008-11-022 November 2008 – 02008-11-099 November 2008	On The Beach	Peter Holmes	Toby Swift	BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial

External links

• Richard Dillane at the Internet Movie Database
• Richard Dillane – Radio