Dual Canadian/British nationalities. Read Music at Lancaster University
(1975-78) before joining English National Opera as singer (1979-81).
Theatre credits subsequently include Gloucester (King Lear) at
Colchester, Judge Turpin (Sweeney Todd) at Liverpool and Watford, Algol
(Space Queen Maladjusta) at Southampton, Angelo (Archangels Don't Play
Pinball) at Bristol. Married BBC studio manager Sharmini Thillaimuthu.
Two children. Lives in London and Suffolk.
2010, Fellow of Furness College, University of Lancaster.
In 2009, he played Cardinal Wolsey in the TV show "Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant", centered on King Henry VIII of England. Later that year, he played Sir John Hutton in the TV show "The Tudors", also centered on King Henry VIII.
[on Lord Mace Tyrell, his character in Game of Thrones (2011)] Well, Mace is described variably by others as an oaf; the Lord of Oaf. However, in my view he's rather a wise old cookie, and is just bumbling along.