:Hari Dhillon
{{short description|American actor}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Hari Dhillon
| image = Hari Dhillon at the 2019 TIFF premier of Bad Education 01 (48810354686).jpg
| alt = Hari Dhillon at the 2019 TIFF premier of Bad Education
| caption = Hari Dhillon at the 2019 TIFF premier of Bad Education
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1968}}
| birth_place = San Francisco, California
| death_date =
| death_place =
| othername = Hari Dillon
Harry Dillon
Hari Jamil Dillon
| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1990s-present
| spouse =
| television = Holby City, This is Us
}}
Hari Dhillon ({{langx|pa|ਹਰੀ ਢਿੱਲੋਂ (Gurmukhi)}}) is an American television, film and stage actor, best known for playing Michael Spence in British television medical drama series Holby City.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/holbycity/characters-cast/characters/michaelspence.shtml|title=Holby City character Michael Spence|publisher=BBC|access-date=January 12, 2010|archive-date=December 24, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091224081832/http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/holbycity/characters-cast/characters/michaelspence.shtml|url-status=live}} His name has also been spelled Hari Dillon and Harry Dillon.
Early life and education
Dhillon was born{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/1410050641.html?FMT=ABS|title=Star's girlfriend is worried about his new love: 5 minutes with Hari Dhillon|work=Glasgow Evening Times|date=2008-01-09|access-date=2010-01-13|archive-date=2011-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604035156/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/1410050641.html?FMT=ABS|url-status=dead}} and raised in San Francisco, California. He spent nine months of his childhood in India.{{cite news|author=Zeenat Moosa|url=http://www.theasiantoday.com/article.aspx?articleId=1584|title=Hari Dhillon - Holby City and the National Television Awards (interview)|work=The Asian Today|date=2009-11-23|access-date=2010-01-12|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091211133000/http://www.theasiantoday.com/article.aspx?articleId=1584|archive-date=2009-12-11}} He took one acting class at UC Berkeley in his senior year at San Francisco State University. After graduation, he worked as a prison AIDS educator in California and Hawaii before setting up a theatre company in San Francisco with friends. In 1994, he attended drama school in the United Kingdom.
Career
Dhillon originally appeared in Holby City in 2001 as recurring minor character Dr. Sunil Gupta, before returning in November 2007 as consultant Michael Spence.{{cite news|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/73760-familiar-face-at-holby|title=Familiar face at Holby|work=Metro|date=2007-10-31|access-date=2010-01-13|archive-date=2012-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929133506/http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/73760-familiar-face-at-holby|url-status=live}} Dhillon took an 'extended break' from Holby City on December 17, 2013, after Michael was forced to leave his post by new CEO, Guy Self (John Michie).{{Cite web|url = http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s19/holby-city/news/a538983/holby-city-hari-dhillon-taking-break-from-michael-spence-role.html|title = Holby City actor takes break from show|website = Digital Spy|date = 17 December 2013|access-date = 19 June 2014|archive-date = 27 May 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140527043627/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s19/holby-city/news/a538983/holby-city-hari-dhillon-taking-break-from-michael-spence-role.html|url-status = live}}
On June 19, 2014, it was announced Dhillon would be returning to Holby City as Michael for a short stint in late 2014.[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s19/holby-city/news/a578854/holby-city-hari-dhillon-to-reprise-role-as-michael-spence.html "Dhillon to reprise role as Michael Spence"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621220050/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s19/holby-city/news/a578854/holby-city-hari-dhillon-to-reprise-role-as-michael-spence.html |date=2014-06-21 }}, digitalspy.co.uk; accessed October 25, 2014. During this time, Dhillon also starred alongside Amanda Mealing on Casualty.
His appearances in US TV shows include Medium, Charmed, Without a Trace, The Loop,{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/1427275/Hari-Dhillon/filmography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026073221/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1427275/Hari-Dhillon/filmography|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 26, 2012|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2012|title=Hari Dhillon partial filmography|access-date=January 14, 2010}} and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.{{cite web|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Scoop-LAW-ORDER-SVU-on-NBC-Today-April-8-2015-20150407|title=Scoop: Law & Order: SVU on NBC|date=April 8, 2015|publisher=broadwayworld.com|access-date=August 28, 2015|archive-date=September 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924052332/http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Scoop-LAW-ORDER-SVU-on-NBC-Today-April-8-2015-20150407|url-status=live}}
He also had minor, unnamed roles in the films Cradle 2 the Grave, Wit and Entrapment. He also starred in the Broadway debut of the Ayad Akhtar play, Disgraced.{{Cite news|title=When the Soul Must Be Heard|last=Isherwood|first=Charles|date=October 23, 2014|url=http://nyti.ms/1D43oKM|access-date=January 6, 2015|archive-date=December 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210232500/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/theater/josh-radner-and-gretchen-mol-star-in-disgraced-on-broadway.html?smid=pl-share|url-status=live}}
Filmography
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year(s)
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1997
| | |
| 2000
| Prince Hussain | |
| 2000
| | 1 episode |
| 2001
| | |
| 2001
| Dr Sunil Gupta | Recurring role |
| 2002
| | 1 episode |
| 2003
| | 1 episode |
| 2005
| Charmed | | 2 episodes |
| 2005
| Medium | | 1 episode |
| 2006
| Mr. Nice Guy | | |
| 2007
| | 1 episode |
| 2007
| The Loop | | 5 episodes |
| 2007–2014
| rowspan="2"| Michael Spence | Regular role |
| 2014
| Casualty | Episode: "Entrenched" |
| 2014
| | 1 episode |
| 2015
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Attorney Varma | Episode: Granting Immunity |
| 2015
| Swami Sanjay | Episode: "The Mystery of the Exsanguinated Ex" |
| 2016
| Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders | Agent Deepak Singh | Episode: Harvested |
| 2016
| Reece Dexter | Episode: Breaking the Chain |
| 2016
| Foreign Minister/Prime Minister | Episodes: Connection Lost/ Render Safe |
| 2017
| Sanjay Jahiri | 4 episodes |
| 2018
| Billions | Michael Panay | |
| 2019
| Jay Carver | Episode: S8:E8 |
| 2021
| Ed Pleasance | 6 episodes |
| 2023
| Maxwell | |
=Film=
- Entrapment (1999)
- New World Disorder (1999)
- Wit (2001)
- Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
- Bad Education (2019)
- Doom: Annihilation (2019)
- The Beanie Bubble (2023)
- We Strangers (2024)
- Trigger Warning (2024)
=Theatre=
- Mother Teresa Is Dead (2002), Royal Court Theatre, London{{cite news|author=Paul Taylor|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/mother-teresa-is-dead-jerwood-theatre-upstairs-at-the-royal-court-london-647060.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606054437/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/mother-teresa-is-dead-jerwood-theatre-upstairs-at-the-royal-court-london-647060.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 6, 2011|title=Mother Teresa Is Dead, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court, London|work=The Independent|date=2002-07-02|access-date=2010-01-12}}
- Drifting Elegant (2004), Magic Theatre, San Francisco{{cite news|author=Robert Hurwitt|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/06/DDGQOHJ2JA1.DTL&type=performance|title=Rape metaphor pervasive in fuzzy "Drifting Elegant"|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=2004-05-05|access-date=2010-01-12}}
- A Perfect Wedding (2004), Kirk Douglas Theatre, Los Angeles{{cite news|author=Terry Morgan|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/services/amusement-recreation-services/4387757-1.html|title=A Perfect Wedding (review)|work=Backstage West|date=2004-11-11|access-date=2010-01-12}}
- Morbidity and Mortality (2006), Magic Theatre, San Francisco{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117929906.html?categoryid=33&cs=1&query=Hari+Dhillon|title=theater review: Morbidity and Mortality|last=Harvey|first=Dennis|date=March 9, 2006|publisher=Variety|access-date=January 14, 2010}}
- Charles L. Mee's A Perfect Wedding, which was the inaugural production of the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles{{cite news|author=Terry Morgan|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/services/amusement-recreation-services/4387797-1.html|title=Douglas Theatre Opens for Mee|work=Backstage West|date=2004-11-11|access-date=2010-01-13}}
- Original production of Stephen Belber's Drifting Elegant at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, which was later developed into a feature film{{cite news|author=Dennis Harvey|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117931914.html?categoryid=31&cs=1|title=Drifting Elegant|work=Variety|date=2006-10-17|access-date=2010-01-13|archive-date=2008-03-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310234021/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117931914.html?categoryid=31&cs=1|url-status=live}}
- Broadway debut of the Ayad Akhtar play, Disgraced.
Awards and nominations
Dhillon was nominated to the long-list of the 2010 National Television Awards in the category for "Best Drama Performance".
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0223561}}
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Category:American male television actors
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male stage actors
Category:American male actors of Indian descent
Category:American expatriate male actors
Category:American expatriates in England