Dominic Rowan
{{Short description|British actor}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
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| occupation = Actor, voice-over artist
| alma_mater = Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
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| spouse = divorced: ex wife: Francesca Rowan/Rogers, interior designer
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Dominic Rowan (born 17 June 1971){{cite web|url=http://www.tvsa.co.za/actors/viewactor.aspx?actorid=13044|title=Dominic Rowan - TVSA|publisher=TVSA}} is an English television, film and theatre actor. He played CPS prosecutor Jacob Thorne in the ITV crime drama Law & Order: UK and Tom Mitford in the Channel 4 drama series North Square. Rowan has also had an extensive stage career.
Career
Rowan trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.
=Theatre=
Rowan's work in theatre includes: A Dream Play,{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/A%20Dream%20Play+11369.twl |title=Productions : A Dream Play |publisher=National Theatre |date=15 May 2005 |accessdate=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212225950/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/A%20Dream%20Play+11369.twl |archivedate=12 February 2012}} Iphigeneia at Aulis,{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Iphigenia%20at%20Aulis+7783.twl |title=Productions: Iphigenia at Aulis |publisher=National Theatre |accessdate=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212230013/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Iphigenia%20at%20Aulis+7783.twl |archivedate=12 February 2012}} Mourning Becomes Electra,{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Mourning%20Becomes%20Electra+6098.twl |title=Productions: Mourning Becomes Electra |publisher=National Theatre |accessdate=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212230037/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Mourning%20Becomes%20Electra+6098.twl |archivedate=12 February 2012}} Three Sisters,{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Three%20Sisters+4887.twl |title=Productions: Three Sisters |publisher=National Theatre |accessdate=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212230055/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Three%20Sisters+4887.twl |archivedate=12 February 2012}} The Talking Cure{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/The%20Talking%20Cure+2252.twl |title=Productions: The Talking Cure |publisher=National Theatre |accessdate=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212230100/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/The%20Talking%20Cure+2252.twl |archivedate=12 February 2012}} and Private Lives{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Private%20Lives+1275.twl |title=Productions: Private Lives |publisher=National Theatre |accessdate=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212230109/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Private%20Lives+1275.twl |archivedate=12 February 2012}} at the National Theatre, London; The Two Gentlemen of Verona,{{cite web |url=http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/2Gentlemen.html |title=The Two Gentlemen of Verona |publisher=The RSC Shakespeare |accessdate=4 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114080943/http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/2Gentlemen.html |archivedate=14 January 2012}} The Merchant of Venice{{cite web|url=http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/merchantofVenice.html |title=The RSC Shakespeare, plot summary – The Merchant of Venice |publisher=Rscshakespeare.co.uk |accessdate=4 January 2012}} and Talk of the City for the RSC; A Voyage Round My Father{{cite web|author=Aleks Sierz|url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/12927|title=The Stage/Reviews: A Voyage Round My Father|publisher=Thestage.co.uk |date=14 June 2006 |accessdate=4 January 2012}} and Lobby Hero{{cite news|author=Michael Billington|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/critic/review/0,,682405,00.html|title=Lobby Hero, London|publisher=Arts.guardian.co.uk|accessdate=4 January 2012|date=26 April 2002}} at the Donmar Warehouse, London; Playhouse Creatures{{cite web|url=http://www.cix.co.uk/~shutters/reviews/97077.htm|title=Review of Playhouse Creatures|publisher=Cix.co.uk|date=15 September 1997|accessdate=4 January 2012}} at the Old Vic, London; Way to Heaven{{cite web|url=http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/wayheaven-rev.htm|title=The British Theatre Guide : Reviews – Way to Heaven (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs)|publisher=Britishtheatreguide.info|accessdate=4 January 2012}} and Forty Winks at the Royal Court Theatre, London; The Importance of Being Earnest{{cite web|author=Andrew Blades|url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/9409/the-importance-of-being-earnest|title=The Stage/Reviews: The Importance of Being Earnest|publisher=Thestage.co.uk|date=25 August 2005|accessdate=4 January 2012}} at The Oxford Playhouse; Sexual Perversity in Chicago at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield; The Rivals,{{cite web|url=http://www.royalexchange.co.uk/history/1996/THE%20RIVALS.htm|title=The Rivals |publisher=Royalexchange.co.uk|date=23 March 1996|accessdate=4 January 2012}} Charley's Aunt{{cite web|url=http://www.royalexchange.co.uk/history/1994/CHARLEY'S%20AUNT.htm|title=Charley'S Aunt|publisher=Royalexchange.co.uk|date=21 January 1995|accessdate=4 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051108015826/http://www.royalexchange.co.uk/history/1994/CHARLEY'S%20AUNT.htm|archive-date=8 November 2005|url-status=dead}} and Look Back in Anger at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; A Collier's Friday Night at Hampstead Theatre, London; Wit's End at the New End Theatre, London, and Happy Now?, a new play by Lucinda Coxon at the National Theatre, London.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Happy%20Now+31797.twl|title=Productions: Happy Now?|publisher=National Theatre|accessdate=4 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212230130/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/Happy%20Now+31797.twl|archive-date=12 February 2012|url-status=dead}}
He was seen in David Eldridge's Under The Blue Sky, which ran from July to September 2008 at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, then from December 2009 in Martin Crimp's version of Molière's comedy The Misanthrope{{cite web|url=http://www.themisanthropelondon.com|title=The Misanthrope review|location=51.510318,-0.131031|publisher=Themisanthropelondon.com|accessdate=4 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111134931/http://www.themisanthropelondon.com/|archive-date=11 January 2012|url-status=dead}} at the Comedy Theatre, London. In summer 2009, he appeared as Touchstone in Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Globe Theatre, where he also appeared in the title role of Henry VIII in 2010. In July 2011 he appeared at the Royal Court alongside Romola Garai in The Village Bike.{{cite news|author=Michael Billington|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/jul/03/the-village-bike-review|title=The Village Bike – review|work=The Guardian|location=UK|accessdate=4 January 2012|date=3 July 2011}}
In 2012 he appeared as Torvald in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Young Vic and in Berenice by Jean Racine at the Donmar Warehouse.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} In March 2024 Rowan appeared alongside Rachael Stirling in The Divine Mrs S. at the Hampstead Theatre, and in summer 2025 he appeared alongside Claire Price, Daniel Abelson and Joe Edgar in Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.{{Cite web |title=Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love {{!}} The Orange Tree Theatre |url=https://orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/in-praise-of-love/ |access-date=2025-06-15 |website=Orange Tree Theatre |language=en-GB}}
=Television=
His TV credits include: Catwalk Dogs,{{cite news|author=TV and Radio |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/22/nosplit/bvtv22last.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071112231429/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/22/nosplit/bvtv22last.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 November 2007 |title=The weekend on television: Catwalk Dogs (ITV1) – Britain's Love Story (ITV1) |work=The Telegraph|accessdate=4 January 2012 |location=London}} Baby Boom, Midsomer Murders, Trial & Retribution, Family Man,{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/familyman/ |title=Drama – The Family Man |publisher=BBC |accessdate=4 January 2012}} The Lavender List,{{cite news|author=Personal View |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/02/28/do2802.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/02/28/ixopinion.html |title=The truth about Wilson's 'lavender list' |work=The Telegraph|accessdate=4 January 2012 |location=London}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Celeb, Silent Witness, Swallow, Doc Martin, A Rather English Marriage, Saint X, Holby City, Rescue Me, Lost World, North Square, Hearts and Bones, Emma,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/15/arts/an-emma-both-darker-and-funnier.html |title=An 'Emma' Both Darker And Funnier |work=The New York Times|date=15 February 1997 |accessdate=4 January 2012 |first=Caryn |last=James}} The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, No Bananas, Devil's Advocate and Between the Lines. In 2011, Rowan joined the cast of Law & Order: UK, replacing Ben Daniels as the show's Crown Prosecutor Jacob Thorne. He joined the new "order" team of Freema Agyeman and Peter Davison.{{cite news|title=PETER DAVISON AND DOMINIC ROWAN JOIN SEASON 3 CAST OF BBC AMERICA's LAW & ORDER: UK|url=http://press.bbcamerica.com/press-release.jsp?id=37325|publisher=BBC America|date=5 July 2011}} He also joined the cast of the fourth series of The Crown on Netflix in 2020, as Charles Powell.
=Film=
Rowan's film appearances include: David, The Tulse Luper Suitcases and the short film Pressure Points. In September 2011 Rowan played the title role in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120902003743/http://www.fathomevents.com/performingarts/series/globeseries.aspx NCM Fathom/Globe Theatre/Arts Alliance Media] film presentation of Shakespeare's Henry VIII – filmed during live performances at the Globe Theatre in London.
=Radio=
His radio work includes: Number 10, And the Rain My Drink, The Talk of the City{{cite web |url=http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/t/ta/talk_of_the_city__the.html |title=The Talk of the City |publisher=Radiolistings.co.uk |date=16 December 2011 |accessdate=4 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150420021903/http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/t/ta/talk_of_the_city__the.html |archive-date=20 April 2015 |url-status=dead }} and The Mill on the Floss.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0746393|Dominic Rowan}}
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Category:Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Category:English male stage actors