Oliver Boot

{{Short description|English actor (born 1979)}}

{{BLP sources|date=June 2007}}

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{{Use British English|date=March 2012}}

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| birth_place = Camden, London, England

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| occupation = Actor

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• {{marriage|Helen George

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• {{marriage|Emma Harrold|2023}}

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Oliver Boot (born 1979) is an English actor. He trained at RADA, and has appeared on both stage and screen. His theatre credits include Antony and Cleopatra,{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article683297.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615092801/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article683297.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 June 2011|title=Arts - The Times|work=The Times}} In Extremis (in the role of Abelard),[http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/16906 "In Extremis" -The Stage News]{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2007/may/24/theatre1|title=Theatre review: In Extremis / Shakespeare's Globe, London|author=Lyn Gardner|work=The Guardian|date=24 May 2007}} Three Musketeers,{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2001/aug/02/theatre.artsfeatures1|title=Theatre: The Three Musketeers|author=Alfred Hickling|work=The Guardian|date=August 2001}} Hayfever, Tartuffe, Jamaica Inn[http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/7573 "Jamaica Inn" - The Stage News] and an award-winning world tour of Othello with Cheek by Jowl. He has starred as Demetrius in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and as Ventidius in Timon of Athens, at the Globe, in London.

In 2006 he was asked to perform Henry V for Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at a private dinner party thrown by the American embassy. He has also acted in the popular TV series Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, As If, The Time of Your Life, Hotel Babylon, Distant Shores, Holby City, Garrow's Law and My Family.

His film credits include Blooded an independent British film about the hunting ban in the '90s and more recently he played opposite Mark Strong and Dominic West in the Disney film John Carter.[http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/family_theatre/view/item72489/ "Calder plays Lear at Globe" - London Theatre Guide]