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Stephen Dillane

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Also known as Stephen J. Dillane, Stephen John Dillane

British actor

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Stephen Dillane is a British stage, film, and television actor who began his professional career in 1985. Born in Kensington, he is a citizen of the United Kingdom and works in Sussex. He received his education at the University of Exeter and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His brother is Richard Dillane, and he has a son named Frank Dillane.

Dillane has performed in Shakespearean comedy and has received several accolades for his acting. These include the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, the International Emmy Award for Best Actor, the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, and the Theatre World Award.

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Person · Open Library

Works
1

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · London, England, UK

Stephen Dillane (born 30 November 1956) is an English actor. He won a Tony Award for his lead performance in Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing.

Known for

  • The Uprising2026
  • The Three Urns — The Damp Man2026
  • How It Is2026
  • The Outrun — Andrew2024
  • KAOS — Prometheus2024
  • The Gold Machine — Narrator (voice)2022
  • Sherwood — Roy Branson2022
  • Boxing Day — Richard2021
  • Vigil — Shaw2021
  • Red Election — William Ogilvy2021

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United Kingdom
Active from
1957

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
4

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Dillane">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Stephen Dillane

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Basic local alignment search tool

    · 1990 · cited 80,788x

  2. Convex Optimization

    · 2004 · cited 41,063x

  3. Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

    · 2021 · cited 29,230x

  4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

    · 1938 · cited 24,534x

  5. Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations

    · 1991 · cited 23,105x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

Born
Stephen John Dillane , ( 1957-03-27 ) 27 March 1957 (age 69) , London , England
Alma mater
University of Exeter Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1985–present
Spouse
Naomi Wirthner
Children
2, including Frank Dillane
Relatives
Richard Dillane (brother)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Stephen
Family name
Dillane
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Kensington
Languages spoken
English language
Image
Stephen Dillane at Dinard 2012.jpg
Work location
Sussex
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Commons category
Stephen Dillane
date of birth
1957-03-27
start of work period
1985-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

Stephen John Dillane (/dɪˈleɪn/; born 27 March 1957) is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Leonard Woolf in the 2002 film The Hours, Stannis Baratheon in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2012–2015) and Thomas Jefferson in the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008), a part which earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination. An experienced stage actor who has been called an "actor's actor", Dillane won a Tony Award for his lead performance in Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing (2000) and gave critically acclaimed performances in Angels in America (1993), Hamlet (1990), and a one-man Macbeth (2005). His television work has additionally garnered him BAFTA and International Emmy Awards for best actor.

Early life and education

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stephen Dillane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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