Stephen Dillane

Stephen Dillane (born 30 November 1956, London, England) is a Tony Award winning British Actor.

Dillane was born in London, England, UK, to an Australian surgeon father and an English mother. 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.

He is a distinguished theatre actor and his notable roles include Prior Walter in Angels in America (1993), Hamlet (1994), Clov in Samuel Beckett's Endgame (1996), Uncle Vanya (1998),Glen Foy in Goal, Henry in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing for which he won a Tony (2000) and a one-man version of Macbeth (2005).

On screen, Dillane has portrayed Michael Henderson in Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), a character based on British journalist Michael Nicholson. He is also known for his portrayal of Leonard Woolf in The Hours (2002) and of English golf pro Harry Vardon in The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005).

Filmography

• Nine Lives, (2005)
• Goal!, (2005)
• The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
• Haven, (2004)
• King Arthur, (2004)
• The Gathering, (2002)
• The Truth About Charlie, (2002)
• The Parole Officer, (2001)
• Spy Game, (2001)
• Ordinary Decent Criminal, (2000)
• Welcome To Sarajevo, (1997)

External Links

• Stephen Dillane at the Internet Movie Database
• Fan page
• RealAudio Interview for Macbethde:Stephen Dillane

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