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Name: Stephen Dillane
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Stephen Dillane trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His early theatre work included repertory seasons at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, Contact Theatre, Manchester and Chester Gateway Theatre.
...( read more) Leading roles at the National Theatre followed in productions of THE BEAUX’ STRATAGEM, DANCING AT LUGHNASA, LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, and ANGELS IN AMERICA, followed by HUSH written by April D’Angelis at the Royal Court.
He won the Richard Burton Shakespeare Globe Award in 1995 for the title role in HAMLET at the Gielgud Theatre directed by Sir Peter Hall. He played
Clov in ENDGAME at the Donmar Warehouse, Artie in HURLYBURLY at the Old Vic, and the title role of UNCLE VANYA for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Young Vic. He returned to the Donmar Warehouse to play Henry in Tom Stoppard’s THE REAL THING, for which he won Best Actor in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 1999, and was nominated for Best Actor
Olivier Award 2000. He then played Tony in OUT LATE NIGHT by Wallace Shawn at the Royal Court. He returned to THE REAL THING for a limited run in the West End of London prior to Broadway where it played at the Barrymore Theater. On Broadway he won the Best Actor Tony Award 2000, Best Actor Drama Desk Award 1999/2000, and Theatre World Award 2000.
He returned to the West End to play George in LIFE AFTER GEORGE. He returned to the National Theatre in 2002 to play Alexander Herzen in the Tom Stoppard Trilogy COAST OF UTOPIA. Recently he performed in a much-praised solo version of MACBETH directed by Travis Preston, playing to sellout audiences in Los Angeles at The Redcat Theatre, The Almeida Theatre in London, and at the Sydney and Adelaide Festivals in Australia. His most recent theatre credit is Caryl Churchill's two-hander at The Royal Court DRUNK ENOUGH TO SAY I LOVE YOU.
Leading roles in films include Franco Zeffirelli’s HAMLET opposite Mel Gibson,
FIRELIGHT, directed by William Nicholson opposite Sophie Marceau, and WELCOME TO SARAJEVO, directed by Michael Winterbottom with Woody Harrelson and Marisa Tomei. Dillane filmed starring roles in four films in 2001, Charles Harker in SPY GAME directed by Tony Scott, Charlie in THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE directed by Jonathan Demme, Simon in THE GATHERING directed by Brian Gilbert, and Leonard Woolf in THE HOURS
directed by Stephen Daldry. THE HOURS received a SAG Award nomination in 2003 for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In 2003 he also starred as Merlin in KING ARTHUR, directed by Antoine Fuqua. Recent films include HAVEN, directed by Frank Flowers, NINE LIVES, directed by Rodrigo Garcia, the lead role of Harry Vardon in THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED, directed by Bill Paxton for Disney, GOAL! directed by Danny Cannon, KLIMT directed by Raul Ruiz, and which screened at The Berlin Film Festival in 2006, and GOAL II! directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. After filming FUGITIVE PIECES, he starred as Brooks Baekeland with Julianne Moore in SAVAGE GRACE directed by Tom Kalin.
This past March, he commenced filming the seven part TV series JOHN ADAMS for HBO in which he played Thomas Jefferson. He is currently filming HURNDALL for Channel 4 TV and GOD ON TRIAL for BBC TV.
