Jonathan Slinger

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{{short description|British actor}}

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| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1995–present

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Jonathan Slinger is an English actor.

He trained at RADA, graduating in 1994.{{cite web |url= http://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles?prof_act=7559 |title= Jonathan Slinger |website= RADA: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |accessdate= 12 April 2014}} From there, he went to work at the Royal National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe. He has also worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company, including the Complete Works and This England: The Histories cycles, playing Richard II, Fluellen, Richard Duke of York and Richard III.{{cite web |url= http://www.rsc.org.uk/about-us/ensemble/jonathan-slinger.aspx |title= Jonathan Slinger |website= Royal Shakespeare Company |accessdate= 12 April 2014 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140413141247/http://www.rsc.org.uk/about-us/ensemble/jonathan-slinger.aspx |archivedate= 13 April 2014}} He played Bernard Woolley, the Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary, in the stage version of Yes, Prime Minister (Chichester/London, 2010). In 2011, he appeared again with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the title role of Macbeth, a new production by Michael Boyd which was the first Shakespeare play to appear in the revamped Royal Shakespeare Theatre.[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/apr/27/macbeth-review Review of the production by Michael Billington in The Guardian.] In 2012 he played Malvolio and Prospero for the RSC in London and Stratford, and in 2013 he played Hamlet.{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/mar/11/jonathan-slinger-hamlet |title= Jonathan Slinger on Hamlet: 'I'm going to try to achieve the impossible' |last1= Gardner |first1= Lyn |date= 11 March 2013 |website= The Guardian |accessdate= 12 April 2014}} In May 2015, he started playing Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in London at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.{{Cite web |url=http://www.charlieandthechocolatefactory.com/charlieandthechocolatefactory-cast.asp |title=Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – the New Musical - Cast Creative |access-date=27 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419013432/http://www.charlieandthechocolatefactory.com/charlieandthechocolatefactory-cast.asp |archive-date=19 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}