Owen Teale
| Owen Teale | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 May 1961 Swansea, Wales |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse(s) | Dilys Watling (marriage dissolved); 1 son Sylvestra Le Touzel (2001–present); 2 daughters) |
Owen Teale (born 20 May 1961) is a Welsh actor best known for his role as Ser Alliser Thorne in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.
Career
Trained at the Guildford School of Acting, Teale made his television debut in The Mimosa Boys in 1984. He later appeared in Knights of God (1989), Great Expectations (1989), and Boon (1990) before being cast as Will Scarlet in the 1991 TV movie Robin Hood.
He went on to appear in such series as Dangerfield, Ballykissangel, The Thin Blue Line and the long-running Belonging, and later Spooks and Murphy's Law. In 2005, he played a lead role in Marian, Again, in which he was the abusive husband of Harrison's eponymous character.
His film debut was in War Requiem in 1989. He later appeared as Lophakin in the 1999 adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, opposite Charlotte Rampling as Ranevskaya and Alan Bates as Gayev. He played the infamous Nazi judge Roland Freisler in Conspiracy.
In 2006 he appeared in the Torchwood episode "Countrycide"; in 1985, he had appeared in the Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos as "Maldak". In 2006 he had a role in the HBO UK TV movie Tsunami: The Aftermath. In 2007, he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Mind's Eye. In the same year, he starred in The Last Legion. In 2011, appeared as Ser Alliser Thorne in Game of Thrones, the HBO TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin's novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, replacing at short notice Derek Halligan.[1] He reprised this role in Season 4 and Season 5, and will once again in Season 6.
Teale won the 1997 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Torvald opposite Janet McTeer in Ibsen's A Doll's House. In 2012, he played Dai in the comedy-drama series Stella and Robert Holland, the fictional UK Foreign Secretary, in the drama series Kidnap and Ransom. He also played as a PSupt in the BBC police drama Line of Duty.
Personal life
Teale has been married twice: to Dilys Watling and then to Sylvestra Le Touzel. He has three children.
Filmography
Films
| Year | Title | Character | Production | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Robin Hood | Will Scarlet | ||
| 1999 | The Cherry Orchard | Lophakin | ||
| 2001 | Conspiracy | Roland Freisler | ||
| 2011 | Act of Memory | Father |
TV
| Year | Title | Character | Production | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Doctor Who : "Vengeance on Varos" | Maldak | BBC | |
| 1986 | David Copperfield | Ham Peggotty | BBC | |
| 1989 | The Fifteen Streets | Part of a collection of small-screen epics based on the best-selling books of Catherine Cookson | ||
| 1995 | The Thin Blue Line | Gary | BBC | Season 1, Episode 2 "Fire and Terror" |
| 2006 | Torchwood | Evan Sherman | BBC | "Countrycide" – Series 1, Episode 6 |
| 2007 | Inspector Lewis | Nicky Turnbull | ITV | "Old School Ties" – Series 1, Episode 2 |
| 2011– | Game of Thrones | Alliser Thorne | HBO | Recurring Role |
| 2012 | The Hollow Crown – Henry V | Fluellen | BBC | |
| 2012 | Kidnap and Ransom | Robert Holland | ITV1 | |
| 2012 | Line of Duty | PSupt Phillip Osborne | BBC | |
| 2012–2013 | Stella | Dai Kosh | Sky 1 |
References
External links
- Owen Teale at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Owen Teale at the Internet Movie Database
- Owen Teale(Aveleyman)
