Stephen Dillane

Stephen Dillane
Born	30 November 1956 (1956-11-30) Kensington, London, England, UK
Other names	Stephen Dillon Stephen Delaney
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1985–present

Stephen J. Dillane (born 30 November 1956) is an English actor. He won a Tony Award for his lead performance in Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing.

Early life

Dillane was born in Kensington, London, to an English mother, Bridget (Curwen), and an Australian surgeon father, John Dillane. He read history and political science at the University of Exeter and afterward became a journalist for the Croydon Advertiser. Unhappy in his career, he read how actor Trevor Eve gave up architecture for acting and was thus inspired to enter the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Work

Dillane is a distinguished theatre actor and his notable roles include Archer in The Beaux' Stratagem (Royal National Theatre, 1989; spelled Stephen Dillon on the poster), 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) and a one-man version of Macbeth (2005). He has also performed T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets' in London and New York City, and is soon to be seen in the 2010 Bridge Project's productions of 'The Tempest' and 'As You Like It'.

Onscreen, Dillane may be best known for his portrayal of Horatio in Franco Zefferelli's film adaptation of Hamlet, with Mel Gibson in the title role. He played Michael Henderson in Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), a character based on British journalist Michael Nicholson, and the impatient and easily agitated Redford foil 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 (2008) as Thomas Jefferson. In July 2011, he was cast as Stannis Baratheon in the second season of HBO's fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.

Awards

He received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson in the HBO mini-series John Adams (2008), and won the 2009 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his work in The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall.

Personal life

His sons, with actress Naomi Wirthner, are actor Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Seamus Dillane. Stephen Dillane's younger brother Richard Dillane is also an actor.

Filmography

• The Secret Garden (1987)
• The One Game (1988)
• Hamlet (1990)
• Two If by Sea (1996)
• Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
• Déjà Vu (1997)
• Love and Rage (1998)
• Firelight (1998)
• Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
• Spy Game (2001)
• The Parole Officer (2001)
• The Truth About Charlie (2002)
• The Gathering (2002)
• The Hours (2002)
• King Arthur (2004)
• Haven (2004)
• The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
• Goal! (2005)
• Nine Lives (2005)
• Goal! 2: Living the Dream... (2007)
• Fugitive Pieces (2007)
• Savage Grace (2007)
• John Adams (2008)
• God on Trial (2008)
• 44 Inch Chest (2009)
• Storm (2009)
• Game of Thrones (2011)

External links

• Stephen Dillane at the Internet Movie Database
• Stephen Dillane at the Internet Broadway Database
• RealAudio Interview for Macbeth