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Anton Lesser (born 14 February 1952)[1] is an English actor. He is well known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, as Thomas More in Wolf Hall, as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in The Crown, as Prime Minister Clement Attlee in A United Kingdom and as Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour.[2]

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Anton Lesser
Lesser in June 2011
Born	(1952-02-14) 14 February 1952 (age 70) Birmingham, England, UK
Alma mater	University of Liverpool Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1979–present
Spouse	Madeleine Lesser
Children	2

Early life

Born in Birmingham,[3] Anton Lesser attended Moseley Grammar School and the University of Liverpool, where he read architecture. He then went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and on graduation in 1977[4] he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year.[3] He is of Jewish background.[5]

Career

As an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Lesser played many of Shakespeare's great roles in the BBC Television Shakespeare productions including Troilus (Troilus and Cressida), Edgar (King Lear), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (Julius Caesar), Leontes (Winter's Tale) and Richard III.^{[citation needed]}

Lesser is a frequent radio contributor and played the title role in the BBC Radio adaptations of the first five Marcus Didius Falco mysteries by Lindsey Davis. He has also recorded many audiobooks, including much of the work of Charles Dickens. His recording of Great Expectations won him a Talkie Award. Other books range from John Milton's Paradise Lost and Homer to contemporary novels by Robert Harris (Fatherland) and Philip Pullman. For two months in 2013, Lesser was a regular cast member playing Robin Carrow in Ambridge Extra, a BBC Radio 4 Extra spin-off from the BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers.^{[citation needed]}

In 2015, Lesser was announced as a public supporter of Chapel Lane Theatre Company based in Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK.[6]

Lesser portrayed Thomas More in the BBC mini-series Wolf Hall, and received a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

Personal life

With his wife Madeleine, he has two children, Harry and Lily Lesser. Lily is an actress, who has acted alongside her father in Endeavour and Wolf Hall.[7]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	The Missionary	Young Man
1985	The Assam Garden	Mr. Sutton
1997	FairyTale: A True Story	Wounded Corporal
2000	Esther Kahn	Sean
2001	Charlotte Gray	Monsieur Renech
2003	Imagining Argentina	General Guzmán
	Y Mabinogi	Teyrnon	Voice role
2005	River Queen	Major Baine
2006	Miss Potter	Harold Warne
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Lord John Carteret
	Flutter	Bruno
2013	Closer to the Moon	Comrade Holban
2016	On Chesil Beach	Reverend Woollett
	A United Kingdom	Clement Attlee
	Allied	Emmanuel Lombard
	The Exception	General Falkenberg
2017	Disobedience	Rav Krushka
2020	The Courier	Bertrand
	Kindred	Dr. Richards
2021	Benediction	Older Stephen Tennant

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	The Cherry Orchard	Trofimov	Television film
1982	Crown Court	Unknown	1 episode
1983	Good and Bad at Games	Cox	Television film
1984	Sakharov	Valery Chalidze	Television film
	Freud	Wilhelm Fliess	Miniseries, 5 episodes
1985	Anna of the Five Towns	Willie Price	Miniseries, 3 episodes
1987	Great Performances	Robber	Episode: "Monsignor Quixote"
1988	Twelfth Knight	Feste	Television film
	Screen Two	Stanley Spencer	Episode: "Stanley"
	The Play on One	Vincenzo	Episode: "Airbase"
1989	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story	Karl	Television film
1990	ScreenPlay	Robert Cecil	Episode: "Traitors"
1991	The Strauss Dynasty	Gustav Levi	Miniseries, 6 episodes
1994	Guinevere	Envoy	Television film
	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Leontes	Voice role, 1 episode
1995	The Politician's Wife	Mark Hollister	Miniseries, 3 episodes
	Bugs	Patrick Marcel	Episode: "Pulse"
1996	Moses	Eliav	Miniseries, 2 episodes
1996	Sharman	Galilee	Episode: "Pretend We're Dead"
	Testament: The Bible in Animation	Joseph	Voice role, 1 episode
	The Moonstone	Ezra Jennings	Television film
1997	Bodyguards	Dusan Mesic	Episode: "A Choice of Evils"
1998	Invasion: Earth	Lt. Charles Terrell	Miniseries, 4 episodes
	Vanity Fair	Mr. Pitt Crawley	Miniseries, 5 episodes
2000	The Miracle Maker	King Herod	Voice role, television film
2000	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Antoine Picard	Episode: "Friends & Enemies"
	Lorna Doone	Counsellor Doone	Television film
2001	Perfect Strangers	Stephen	Miniseries, 3 episodes
	Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes	Milburn	Episode: "The White Knight Stratagem"
	Uprising	Nathan Lensky	Television film
	Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story	Vidas Merlinis	Miniseries, 2 episodes
2002	Dickens	Charles Dickens	Miniseries, 3 episodes
	Waking the Dead	Professor Ray Levin	Episode: "Special Relationship"
	The Project	Stanley Hall	Miniseries, 2 episodes
	Foyle's War	Austin Carmichael	Episode: "Eagle Day"
2003	Eroica	Sukowaty	Television film
	Midsomer Murders	Eddie Darwin	Episode: "Birds of Prey"
2004	Silent Witness	Marcus Gwilym	Episode: "Death by Water"
	Dirty Filthy Love	Charles	Television film
	Spooks	Nicholas Ashworth	Episode: "A Prayer for My Daughter"
2005	Ahead of the Class	Graham Ranger	Television film
	The Girl in the Café	George	Television film
	Class of '76	Martin Gibson	Miniseries, 2 episodes
	Nova	Voltaire	Episode: "E=mc²: Einstein's Big Idea"
2006	Dalziel and Pascoe	Paul Goodman	Episode: "Guardian Angel"
	Vital Signs	Dr. Lindsay	4 episodes
	New Tricks	Pete Mackintyre	Episode: "Bank Robbery"
	A Touch of Frost	Dennis Prior	Episode: "Endangered Species"
2008	Midsomer Murders	Reverend Wallace Stone	Episode: "Talking to the Dead"
	The Palace	Archbishop of Canterbury	1 episode
	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Inspector Kelsey	Episode: "Cat Among the Pigeons"
	Einstein and Eddington	Fritz Haber	Television film
	Little Dorrit	Mr. Merdle	Miniseries, 9 episodes
2009	Casualty 1900s	Dr Henry Head	1 episode
2010	Holby City	Sol Caplin	Episode: "Faith No More "
	Five Daughters	Dr. Nat Cary	Miniseries, 2 episodes
	Garrow's Law	John Farmer	4 episodes
2011	Primeval	Gideon	Recurring role, 5 episodes
	The Hour	Clarence Fendley	Main role, 5 episodes
	The Man Who Crossed Hitler	Rudolf Olden	Television film
2012-2016	The Hollow Crown	Duke of Exeter	4 episodes
2013	Spies of Warsaw	Doctor Lapp	Miniseries, 4 episodes
	Ripper Street	Dr. Karl Crabb	2 episodes
	The Escape Artist	Richard Mayfield QC	Miniseries, 3 episodes
2013-2019	Game of Thrones	Qyburn	Recurring role, 22 episodes
2013-present	Endeavour	Chief Superintendent Richard Bright	Main role, 32 episodes
2014	Father Brown	Father Ignatius	Episode: "The Mysteries of the Rosary"
	Atlantis	Kyros	1 episode
	The Musketeers	Émile De Mauvoisin	1 episode
	The Game	C	1 episode
2015	Wolf Hall	Thomas More	Miniseries, 4 episodes
	Life in Squares	Dr. Hyslop	Miniseries, 2 episodes
2015-2016	Dickensian	Fagin	Main role, 15 episodes
2017	Hooten & the Lady	Hercules	Miniseries, 1 episode
	The Crown	Harold Macmillan	Main role (Season 2) 8 episodes
2019-2020	The Trial of Christine Keeler	Michael Eddowes	Miniseries, 6 episodes
2021	A Discovery of Witches	Rabbi Loew	1 episode
2022	Killing Eve	Robert	1 episode
	Andor	Major Partagaz	6 episodes
	1899

Theatre performances

• Romeo and Juliet Romeo, 1980, RSC
• Hamlet Hamlet, 1982, Donmar Warehouse, London
• Troilus and Cressida Troilus, 1981, RSC
• The Plantagenets (Henry VI part 1-3 and Richard III) Richard III, 1988, RSC
• Two Shakespearean Actors Edwin Forrest, 1990, RSC
• Richard II Henry Bullingbrook,[8] 1990, RSC
• The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio, 1992, RSC
• The Merry Wives of Windsor Frank Ford, 1992, RSC
• 'Art', Serge, 1997, Wyndham's Theatre, London
• Private Lives Elyot, 1999, Lyttelton Theatre, London
• Cymbeline Iachimo, 2003, RSC
• Julius Caesar Marcus Brutus, 2005, Barbican, London
• The Winter's Tale Leontes, 2006,RSC
• The Vertical Hour Oliver Lucas, 2008, Royal Court Theatre, London
• A Doll's House Dr Rank, 2009, Donmar Warehouse, London

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2016	BAFTA TV Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Wolf Hall	Nominated	[9]
2018	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Game of Thrones	Nominated	[10][11]
			The Crown	Nominated

References

External links

• Anton Lesser at IMDb

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[de] Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser (* 14. Februar 1952 in Birmingham) ist ein englischer Schauspieler.

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- [en] Anton Lesser

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[es] Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser (14 de febrero de 1952) es un actor inglés de cine, televisión y teatro.[1]

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[ru] Лессер, Антон

Анто́н Ле́ссер (англ. Anton Lesser, род. 14 февраля 1952) — английский актёр.

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