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Full Name:Stephen Dillane
Famous As: Actor
Date of Birth: 1957
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Nationality: British

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  • Los Angeles Times - Found Nov. 30, 2008
    Travis Preston directed a one-man 'Macbeth' with Stephen Dillane in 2004 that I suspect will remain with me as my most soaring experience with...
  • Calendar Live - Found Nov. 30, 2008
    Travis Preston directed a one-man 'Macbeth' with Stephen Dillane in 2004 that I suspect will remain with me as my most soaring experience with...
  • The Coast Halifax's weekly - Found Nov. 29, 2008
    With great performances from Stephen Dillane, Rosamund Pike and Rade Serbedzija.
  • Sydney Morning Herald - Found Nov. 26, 2008
    It's narrated by the adult Jakob (Stephen Dillane), who's now living in Toronto, where he and Athos fetched up after fleeing Europe.
  • Brisbane Times - Found Nov. 27, 2008
    It's narrated by the adult Jakob (Stephen Dillane), who's now living in Toronto, where he and Athos fetched up after fleeing Europe.
  • The Australian - Found Nov. 25, 2008
    Part of the problem is the lugubrious central performance of Stephen Dillane, who plays a character robbed of his family by the Nazis and...
  • Playbill - Found Nov. 24, 2008
    The T. S. Eliot Festival will include Katie Mitchell directing the previously announced Stephen Dillane reading of Four Quartets (Jan.
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  • The Age - Found Nov. 20, 2008
    In the 1970s, the adult Jakob (Stephen Dillane) is obsessed with the Holocaust, researching stories of survival and worrying that his marriage...
  • Forward - Found Nov. 20, 2008
    Schmidt (Stephen Dillane), a sophisticated rabbi from Lodz, will serve as the equivalent of the defense.
  • Digitally Obsessed - Found Nov. 18, 2008
    ... on the award-winning book of the same name, the cast also features Emmy Award® nominees Stephen Dillane (Best Supporting Actor, John Adams...
 

Stephen Dillane Biography

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Stephen Dillane
Born 30 November 1956 (1956-11-30) (age 52)
London, England

Stephen Dillane (born 30 November 1956) is a British Tony Award–winning actor.

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Biography

Born in London, England to an Australian surgeon father and an English mother.12 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.

Dillane is a distinguished theatre actor and his notable roles include Prior Walter in Angels in America (1993), Hamlet (1990), Clov in Samuel Beckett's Endgame (1996), Uncle Vanya (1998), 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 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. 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 he received an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson in the HBO mini-series John Adams (2008).

His son is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince actor, Frank Dillane.

Filmography

Awards
Preceded by
Brian Dennehy
for Death of a Salesman
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play
1999-2000
for The Real Thing
Succeeded by
Richard Easton
for The Invention of Love
Preceded by
Brian Dennehy
for Death of a Salesman
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
2000
for The Real Thing
Succeeded by
Richard Easton
for The Invention of Love

References

  1. ^ "Stephen Dillane Biography". filmreference (2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-10.
  2. ^ Matt Wolf (16 April 2000). "Getting Out of the Way of `The Real Thing'", the New York Times. Retrieved on 10 April 2008. 

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