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Stephen Dillane
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Born
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(1956-11-30) 30 November 1956
Kensington, London, England
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Other names
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Stephen Dillon
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Occupation
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Actor
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Years active
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1985–present
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Spouse(s)
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Naomi Wirthner
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Relatives
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Frank Dillane (son)
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Stephen J. Dillane (born 30 November 1956) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Leonard Woolf in The Hours, Glen Foy in Goal!, Stannis Baratheon in Game of Thrones and American politician Thomas Jefferson in the HBO miniseries John Adams, a role which earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie. An accomplished theatre actor, he has also 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 (née Curwen), and an Australian surgeon father, Dr. John Dillane.[1][2][3] His younger brother, Richard, is also an actor.
He studied 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 inspired to enter the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. During his early acting career, he was known as Stephen Dillon but reverted to his birth name in the 1990s.
Career
Dillane is a distinguished 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). 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.
Onscreen, Dillane may be best known for his portrayal of 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).
Dillane is also known for his portrayal of Hunted.[5]
The same year, Dillane starred in the British independent film Papadopoulos & Sons, in which he plays a successful entrepreneur, Harry Papadopoulos, who rediscovers his life after being forced to start again from nothing following a banking crisis.[6] His real-life son, Frank Dillane, plays his son in the film. In January 2013, it was reported that Dillane had been cast as the male lead in the Sky Atlantic series The Tunnel.[7]
Personal life
Dillane has two sons with actress Naomi Wirthner: Seamus Dillane and actor Frank Dillane, who is best known for playing the teenage Voldemort in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.[1]
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
References
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^ a b "Stephen Dillane Biography". filmreference. 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
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^ Matt Wolf (16 April 2000). "'"Getting Out of the Way of 'The Real Thing. the New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 August 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
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^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~joybobsalt/4962.HTM
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^ Hibberd, James (19 July 2011). Game of Thrones' casts sorceress Melisandre and Stannis Baratheon"'".
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^ Radio Times Hunter cast list
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^ The Hollywood Reporter (11 January 2013). "Papadopoulos & Sons – Palm Springs Review". Retrieved 10 April 2013.
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^ Munn, Patrick (23 January 2013). "'"Stephen Dillane & Clémence Poésy Cast As Co-Leads in Sky Atlantic/Canal+ Series 'The Tunnel. TVWise. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
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Awards for Stephen Dillane
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Key: (a)= Winner of Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Mini Series
(b)= Best Actor in a Actor in a Leading Role in a Telefeature
(c)= Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, in a Mini-Series or Telefeature
(d)= Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Television Drama or Comedy
(e)= Best Lead Actor in Television
All other names, which aren't marked with a letter next to their name, have won the current Lead Actor in a Television Drama award.
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