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Owen Teale (born 20 May 1961) is a Welsh character actor known for his role as Ser Alliser Thorne in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.

Owen Teale
Teale in 2014
Born	(1961-05-20) 20 May 1961 (age 61) North Cornelly, Glamorgan, Wales
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1984–present
Spouse(s)	Dilys Watling (marriage annulled) Sylvestra Le Touzel ​ (m. 2001)​
Children	3

Career

Trained at the Guildford School of Acting, Teale made his television debut in The Mimosa Boys in 1984. in 1985, he appeared in the Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos as "Maldak". His film debut was in War Requiem in 1989. He later appeared in Knights of God (1989), Great Expectations (1989), The Fifteen Streets (1989) and Boon (1990) before being cast as Will Scarlet in the 1991 film 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.

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. He also had parts In Midsomer Murders and Lewis.

In 2005, he played a lead role in Marian, Again, in which he was the abusive husband of Harrison's eponymous character.[1] He also did voice over narration for "Tales from the Green Valley", one of several farm series he has done for the BBC.

In 2006, he appeared in the Torchwood episode "Countrycide".[2] Also 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.[3] In 2011, Teale 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.[4] He reprised this role in Season 4, Season 5, and Season 6.[5][6]

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.[7] He also plays Chief Constable Osborne in the BBC police drama Line of Duty. Between 2018 and 2022 he played Peter Knox in A Discovery of Witches, a series based on the book of the same name by Deborah Harkness.

Personal life

Teale was born in North Cornelly, south Wales, and attended Cynffig Comprehensive School in Kenfig Hill. He was suspended from the school for disciplinary offences and credits one of the teachers with awakening his interest in acting.[8] He has been married twice: first to Dilys Watling and then to Sylvestra Le Touzel. He has three children.

Awards

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.[9]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1989	War Requiem	The Unknown Soldier	Derek Jarman
1991	Robin Hood	Will Scarlet	John Irvin
1993	The Hawk	Ken Marsh	David Hayman
1996	Marco Polo: The Missing Chapter	Adolph	Rafi Bukai
1999	The Cherry Orchard	Lopahin	Michael Cacoyannis
2001	The Search for John Gissing	Giles Hanagan	Mike Binder
2004	Jack Brown and the Curse of the Crown	Jack Brown	Andrew Gillman
	King Arthur	Pelagius	Antoine Fuqua
2007	The Last Legion	Vatrenus	Doug Lefler
2008	Inconceivable	Richard Newman	Mary McGuckian
	Love Me Forever	Peter Schwarz	Åsa Faringer & Ulf Hultberg
2009	It's Alive	Sgt. Perkins	Josef Rusnak
2011	Hunky Dory	Davy's Dad	Marc Evans
2013	The Fold	Edward Ashton	John Jencks
2016	Nocturne	Murray	Konstantinos Frangopoulos
2019	Tolkien	Headmaster Gilson	Dome Karukoski
2020	Dream Horse	Brian Vokes	Euros Lyn

Television

Year	Title	Character	Production	Notes
1985	Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos	Maldak	BBC	2 episodes
1986	David Copperfield	Ham Peggotty	BBC	5 episodes
1989	The Fifteen Streets	John O'Brien		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"
1996	Dangerfield	PC Dave Chapman	BBC	"Scars" series 3, Episode 4
1999	Ballykissangel	Connor Devlin	BBC	Season 5
2001	Conspiracy	Roland Freisler
2004	Spooks	Robert Morgan	BBC	"Frequently Asked Questions" – Series 3, Episode 9
2005	Midsomer Murders	Little Mal Kirby	ITV	"Second Sight" – Series 8, Episode 5
2005	Timewatch	Erucius	BBC	Episode: "Murder in Rome"
2005	Tales from the Green Valley	narrator	BBC2
2006	Torchwood	Evan Sherman	BBC	"Countrycide" – Series 1, Episode 6
2007	Inspector Lewis	Nicky Turnbull	ITV	"Old School Ties" – Series 1, Episode 3
2011, 2014–2016	Game of Thrones	Alliser Thorne	HBO	Recurring role 19 episodes
2012	The Hollow Crown – Henry V	Fluellen	BBC	"Henry V"
2012	Kidnap and Ransom	Robert Holland	ITV1	3 episodes
2012, 2021	Line of Duty	Chief Inspector/Chief Constable Phillip Osborne	BBC	3 episodes (2012)
2012–2013	Stella	Dai Kosh	Sky 1	20 episodes
2015	River	CSupt Marcus McDonald	BBC One	6 episodes
2017	Pulse	Chad Berger	ABC TV	Recurring role
2018–2022	A Discovery of Witches	Peter Knox	Sky 1	18 episodes
2021	The Pembrokeshire Murders	Gerard Elias QC	ITV1	3 Part Mini-Series
2022	The Rig	Lars Hutton	Amazon Prime Video	Upcoming series

Theatre

Year	Production	Role
1996	A Doll's House	Torvald
2003	The Dance of Death	Kurt
2008	Macbeth	Macbeth
2013	Passion Play	James[10]
2014	Under Milk Wood	Narrator[11]
2015	The Broken Heart	BASSANES[12]
2016	No Man's Land	Briggs[13]
2016	Gaslight	Jack Manningham[14]

References

External links

• Owen Teale at the Internet Broadway Database
• Owen Teale at IMDb
• Owen Teale (Aveleyman)

На других языках

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[de] Owen Teale

Owen Teale (* 20. Mai 1961 in Swansea, Wales) ist ein britischer Film- und Theaterschauspieler.

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- [en] Owen Teale

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[es] Owen Teale

Owen Teale (North Cornelly, Glamorgan, 20 de mayo de 1961)[1] es un actor galés. Estudió en la Guildford School of Acting y se graduó en 1982.[2] En 1997 recibió el premio Tony al mejor actor protagonista por su papel de Torvald Helmer en la obra de teatro Casa de muñecas.[3]

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[ru] Тил, Оуэн

Оуэн Тил (англ. Owen Teale; род. 20 мая 1961 года, в деревне North Cornelly (англ.), Уэльс) — британский актёр.

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