Richard Dillane
{{Short description|English actor (born 1964)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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Richard Dillane (born 1964) is an English actor. He appears in Soldier Soldier (1995), Cold Feet (2000), Space Race (2005), Tristan & Isolde (2006), Spooks (2007), Casualty (2008-2009), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), Doctor Who (2011), Argo (2012), Dead in Tombstone (2013), Wolf Hall (2015), Peaky Blinders and Poldark (2016), Giri/Haji (2019), Young Wallander (2020),The Crown and Andor (2022).
Early life and education
Dillane is from Kent, and grew up near London with his brother Stephen (also an actor). Their mother is English and their father was born in Australia to Irish parents.{{Cite web|url= https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/richard-dillane/bio/3000199645/ |title= Richard Dillane|work= tvguide.com |access-date= 28 April 2023}} He took a philosophy degree at Manchester University,{{citation needed|date=June 2015}} and lived in Australia for ten years, working in white-water rafting as a guide, also as an actor and director.
Career
In 2020, he appears in a lead role of the Netflix series Young Wallander,{{Cite web|url= https://www.conwayvangeldergrant.com/actors/richard-dillane/ |title= Richard Dillane|work= conwayvangeldergrant.com |access-date= 28 April 2023}} based on the character Kurt Wallander created by novelist Henning Mankell. He played British intelligence agent Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning 2012 political thriller Argo, and Merv Humphreys, husband of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson) in Jim Loach's fact-based movie Oranges and Sunshine.
He was Wernher von Braun in the BBC television docudrama Space Race, Nero in Howard Brenton's play Paul at the National Theatre of Great Britain and appeared several times as Stephen Maturin in the BBC radio adaptations of the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey–Maturin novels and Peter Guillam in three John le Carré adaptations.
Dillane's other film work includes The Dark Knight (as Acting Commissioner), Mindscape with Mark Strong, The Dinosaur Project, The Edge of Love, The Jacket, Tristan & Isolde (2006), and as Cole Porter's last lover Bill Wrather (a composite character) in Irwin Winkler's biopic De-Lovely, which starred Kevin Kline.
Recent television work includes Giri/Haji, The Last Kingdom, Peaky Blinders, Counterpart, Outlander, The Last Post, and Star Wars: Andor.
In 2015, he played Duke of Suffolk in the BBC TV series Wolf Hall, and in 2016 he appeared in the lead role of DCI Michael Waite in a double episode of the BBC TV series Silent Witness.
Prior to this, he played the captain of the shape-changing justice robot Teselecta in two episodes of Doctor Who ("Let's Kill Hitler" and "The Wedding of River Song"), rogue spy John Richardson in Spooks (2007), Australian conman Graham Poole in Hustle, photographer and old flame Miles Brodie in Cold Feet, posh drug addict Theodore Platt in the first episode of Lewis and the relationship counsellor Ben in Men Behaving Badly, as well as regular characters Sean Anderson in Casualty, and Australian sergeant Brad Connor in the ITV series Soldier Soldier.
On stage, Dillane has performed at the National Theatre of Great Britain in London and the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. In 2000, he was the 1st Duke of Suffolk in the Olivier Award-winning Michael Boyd productions of Henry VI parts 1, 2 and 3 in Stratford, London and Michigan.{{cite web |title=RSC Performances Henry VI |url=https://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/rsc-performances/hh1200012 |website=Shakespeare Theatre Company |access-date=11 February 2022}} He played Hamlet in Perth, Australia, directed by Ray Omodei.
He is also a regular radio actor and voice-over artist.{{Cite web|url= https://www.sueterryvoices.com/artist/richard-dillane |title= Richard Dillane Voice|work= sueterryvoices.com |access-date= 28 April 2023}}
Personal life
His essay 'Making Sense of "To be or not to be"', about Hamlet's soliloquy, was published in Shakespeare and Montaigne (eds. Patrick Gray, Lars Engle and William M. Hamlin, Edinburgh University Press, 2021).ISBN 978-1474458238
He is married to Scottish actress Jayne McKenna, and they live in Brighton, East Sussex (in 2015).{{Cite web|url= https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/east-kilbride-actress-lands-starring-5478660 |title= East Kilbride actress lands starring role in West End musical War Horse |work= dailyrecord.co.uk|date= 10 April 2015}} They were married in 2005 and have three children, all boys: Austin, Murray and Ray.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1998
| D.S. Dan Campbell | Direct-to-Video |
| 1999
| Lieutenant Hunter | |
| 2000
| Seeing Red | Steve | TV film |
| 2001
| Tim | TV film |
| 2002
| George Eliot: A Scandalous Life | John Cross | TV film |
| rowspan="2"|2004
| EMR | Victor | |
| De-Lovely
| Bill Wrather | |
| rowspan="2"|2005
| Captain Medley | |
| Our Hidden Lives
| S | TV film |
| rowspan="2"|2006
| Aragon | |
| One Hundredth of a Second
| Connor | Short film |
| rowspan="2"|2008
| Lieutenant Colonel David Talbot Rice | |
| The Dark Knight
| Acting Commissioner | |
| rowspan="3"|2009
| Theatre Actor | TV film |
| Moonshot
| Tom Stafford | TV film |
| Mad, Sad & Bad
| Roger | |
| 2010
| Merv | |
| rowspan="2"|2012
| Jonathan Marchant | |
| Argo
| OSS Officer Nicholls | |
| rowspan="2"|2013
| Jack Sutter | Direct-to-Video |
| Mindscape
| Robert | |
| rowspan="3"|2014
| Larsen | |
| Altar
| Greg | |
| The Last Hand
| John | Short film |
| 2017
| Against the Law | Prosecutor Roberts | TV film |
| 2018
| Mother's Day | Dr. Tarring | TV film |
| 2019
| Colonel Jenkins | |
| rowspan="2"|2020
| The Show | Flash Avenger | |
| The Forgotten Battle
| Sinclair | |
| 2021
| Colonel Menzies | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1995
| Sergeant Brad Connor | Recurring role; 10 episodes |
| rowspan="3"|1997
| Terry | Episode: "Peace and Quiet" |
| Men Behaving Badly
| Ben | Episode: "Ten" |
| Solomon
| Jeroboam | Mini-series |
| rowspan="3"|1998
| Sean Villiers | Series 2, Episode 6 |
| Big Women
| Brian | Mini-series |
| Verdict
| Robert Horton-Smith | Episode: "Split Second" |
| 1999
| David Mereday | Mini-series |
| 2000
| Miles Brodie | Recurring role; 2 episodes |
| rowspan="3"|2003
| Jean Moulin, une affaire française | Anthony Harper | Mini-series |
| Red Cap
| Captain Finbar Glover | Episode: "Cover Story" |
| Adventure Inc.
| Michael Drake | Episode: "Spirit of the Mask" |
| 2004
| Episode: "Julius Caesar" |
| 2005
| Series regular |
| 2006
| Hustle | Graham Poole | Episode: "Law and Corruption" |
| rowspan="5"|2007
| Casualty | Anthony Sharman | Episode: "The Silence of Friends" |
| Waking the Dead
| Ricardo Rivelli | Episode: "Mask of Sanity" |
| Lewis
| Theodore Platt | Episode: "Whom the Gods Would Destroy" |
| Rome
| Centurion Vallo | Episode: "De Patre Vostro" |
| Spooks
| John Richardson | Episode: "The Broadcast" |
| 2008
| Major Summerhayes | Episode: "Mrs McGinty's Dead" |
| 2008-2009
| Casualty | Sean Anderson | Series regular |
| 2011
| Carter | Recurring role; 2 episodes |
| 2012
| DCI Stuart Burgess | Episode: "Dry Bones That Dream" |
| rowspan="3"|2013
| Oliver Ordish | Episode: "Schooled in Murder" |
| Foyle's War
| Charles Roper | Series 7 Episode 3: "Sunflower" |
| Atlantis
| Pallos | Episode: "A Boy of No Consequence" |
| rowspan="2"|2014
| Vera | Will Peyton | Episode: "The Deer Hunters" |
| New Tricks
| Lawrence Devlin | Episode: "Tender Loving Care" |
| rowspan="2"|2015
| Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk | Series regular |
| Partners in Crime
| Bulldog | Episode: "The Secret Adversary" |
| rowspan="6"|2016
| Leo Richardson | Episode: "Arcadia" |
| Silent Witness
| DCI Michael Waite | Episode: "Flight" |
| Peaky Blinders
| General Curran | Episode: "Series 3, Episode 1" |
| Poldark
| Henry Bull | Episode: "Series 2, Episode 2" |
| Berlin Station
| Gerald Ellman | Episode: "Station to Station" |
| Daye's Work
| DI Harry Daye | Episode: "Pilot" |
| rowspan="3"|2017
| Series regular |
| The Last Post
| Harvey Tilbrook | Series regular |
| Outlander
| Captain Raines | Recurring role; 2 episodes |
| 2018
| Ricky Langston | Episode: "Something Borrowed" |
| rowspan="4"|2019
| West of Liberty | Ron Herriman | Series regular |
| Twice Upon a Time
| David Arron | Recurring role; 2 episodes |
| Strike Back
| Whitehall | Recurring role; 2 episodes |
| Giri/Haji
| Brian | Series 1, Episode 3 |
| rowspan="3"|2020
| Ludeca | Recurring role; 4 episodes |
| Betaal
| Colonel Lynedoch | Series regular |
| Young Wallander
| Hemberg | Series regular |
| rowspan="2"|2021
| Mr. Scarisbrick | Recurring role; 2 episodes |
| Dalgliesh
| Dr. Stephen Courtney-Briggs | Episode: "Shroud for a Nightingale" |
| rowspan="3"|2022
| Sir Charles Hakeworth | Episode: "The Red Death" |
| Andor
| Davo Sculdun | Episode: "One Way Out" |
| The Crown
| George V | Episode: "Ipatiev House" |
| 2023–present
| Tom Libby | 4 episodes |
Theatre credits
References
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External links
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- [http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/candc/d/di/dillane_richard.html Richard Dillane profile], radiolistings.co.uk; accessed 2 March 2016.
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