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Stephen Dillane
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Dillane at the 2012 Dinard British Film Festival
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Stephen John Dillane
27 March 1957 London, England
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Spouse(s) | Naomi Wirthner |
| Children | 2, including Frank Dillane |
Stephen John Dillane (born March 27, 1957) is a British actor. He is well-known for playing Stannis Baratheon in the TV show Game of Thrones. He also played Leonard Woolf in the movie The Hours and Thomas Jefferson in the TV series John Adams. For his role as Thomas Jefferson, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Stephen Dillane is also a very skilled stage actor. He won a Tony Award for his main role in the play The Real Thing. He has also won BAFTA and International Emmy Awards for his work on television.
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Stephen Dillane's Early Life
Stephen Dillane was born in Kensington, London. His mother was English, and his father was an Australian surgeon. He grew up in West Wickham, Kent, and is the oldest of his siblings. His younger brother, Richard, is also an actor.
School Days and Acting
At school, Stephen started acting in plays at the end of term. He found it easy to do funny voices. He remembered playing a part in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. He said shouting "Fire!" as his character was "very thrilling."
A Change in Career
He studied history and politics at the University of Exeter. After university, he worked as a journalist for the Croydon Advertiser. He was not happy with this job. One day, he read about an actor who left another career to act. This, along with reading Hamlet and a book called The Empty Space, made him want to act.
So, at 25, he decided to go to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. When he first started acting, he used the name Stephen Dillon. But in the 1990s, he went back to using his birth name, Stephen Dillane.
Stephen Dillane's Acting Career
Stephen Dillane is a very experienced theatre actor. He has played many important roles on stage. These include Archer in The Beaux' Stratagem and Prior Walter in Angels in America. He also played Prince Hamlet in Hamlet and won a Tony Award for his role in The Real Thing. He even performed a one-man version of Macbeth.
Famous Film and TV Roles
Stephen Dillane has also been in many films and TV shows. He played Horatio in the 1990 film version of Hamlet. He was Michael Henderson in Welcome to Sarajevo and Harker in Spy Game.
He is well-known for playing Leonard Woolf in The Hours. He also played the golfer Harry Vardon in The Greatest Game Ever Played. In the Goal! movies, he played Glen Foy. A big role for him was Thomas Jefferson in the TV series John Adams.
In 2011, he joined the cast of Game of Thrones. He played Stannis Baratheon, a character who wanted to become king.
Recent TV Work
In 2012, he was in the BBC show Hunted. The next year, he starred in The Tunnel. This was a crime drama based on a Scandinavian show. He played Karl Roebuck, a British detective. His acting in The Tunnel won him an International Emmy Award for Best Actor. He played Karl again in the second series, The Tunnel: Sabotage, in 2016.
Other Projects
In 2012, Stephen Dillane also starred in the British film Papadopoulos & Sons. He played Harry Papadopoulos, a businessman who loses everything and has to start over. His real-life son, Frank Dillane, played his son in the movie. He also had roles in the films Zero Dark Thirty and Twenty8k that year.
In 2014, he worked with an artist named Tacita Dean for a project. It was called Event for a Stage. This project explored how films are made and what acting is like. He shared his own thoughts on acting and theatre.
In 2016, he returned to the stage in a play called Faith Healer. His performance was described as "poetic and powerful." He also played artist Graham Sutherland in The Crown, a TV series about Queen Elizabeth II. In 2017, he was in two movies about real people. He played Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax in Darkest Hour. He also played writer William Godwin in the film Mary Shelley.
In 2018, he filmed The Man In The Hat with Ciarán Hinds.
Stephen Dillane's Personal Life
Stephen Dillane has two sons with actress and director Naomi Wirthner. Their sons are named Séamus and Frank Dillane. Frank is also an actor, and they worked together in the movie Papadopoulos & Sons.
Supporting Causes
In October 2023, Stephen Dillane signed a public letter. This letter was from a group called Artists4Ceasefire. It asked for peace and an end to fighting in a conflict zone.
Images for kids
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Stephen Dillane at the 2012 Dinard British Film Festival
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Stephen Dillane in October 2009
See also
In Spanish: Stephen Dillane para niños
