Gary Oliver (actor)

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Gary Oliver
Born (1966-11-19) 19 November 1966 (age 58)
Northampton, England
OccupationActor
Years active1995–present

Gary Oliver (born 19 November 1966) is an English actor of the stage, television, and film. He is known for his guest starring roles in Game of Thrones , New Tricks and Atlantis .

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Career

Oliver is principally active as a stage actor. In 1990 he performed in Carlos Muñiz's The Inkwell at the Battersea Arts Centre. [1] In 1991 he appeared in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at The New Hereford Theatre. [2] In 1994 he performed in Max Frisch's The Fire Raisers with Arts Threshold, Gloucester Terrace. [3] In 1995 he starred in Brad Fraser's Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. [4]

Oliver has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). [5] In 1997 he toured with the RSC to perform the role of Balthazar in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival under the direction of Tim Supple. [5] In 1998 he starred in the premiere of Andrew Payne's two man one act play then what? at The Old Red Lion, Islington. [6] In 1999 he starred as Louis Ironson in Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Manchester Central Library Theatre with Peter Polycarpou as Roy Cohn and Richard Cant as Prior. [7] That same year he starred as Gary in Lynne Harvey's Something for Grownups at the Drayton Court Theatre. [8] In 2000 he performed in the Royal National Theatre's production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard . [9]

After appearing in the final scene of the HBO series Game of Thrones in season 4, Oliver reprised his role as Ternesio Terys in season 5.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1995 Soldier Soldier Sgt. Major FellnerTV series; 1 episode
1996 Heartbeat MihailTV series; 1 episode
1999 Kavanagh QC Jack WilkleTV series; 1 episode
1999, 2002 The Bill Dean / Keith CanningTV series; 2 episodes
2007 Doctors Patrick TansleyTV series; 1 episode
2008 Merlin GregoryTV series; 2 episodes
2013 New Tricks Tony OtwayTV series; 1 episode
2013–2014 Atlantis AlytarchTV series; 2 episodes
2013 The Bible Abraham TV series; 1 episode
2014–2015 Game of Thrones Ternesio TerysTV series; 2 episodes
2017 Father Brown Frank HammondTV series/Episode 5.13 "The Tanganyika Green"
Bitter Harvest Joseph Stalin Feature film
2018 Benidorm Franco2 episodes (series 10, episodes 5 and 6)
2019 Jesus: His Life King Herod the Great TV series; 1 episode
2020 Young Wallander CommissionerTV series; 1 episode
2021 Eight for Silver (a.k.a. The Cursed) Sir JohnFeature film

References

  1. ↑ "THEATRE WEEK: The Inkwell". The Stage and Television Today (5702): 9. 26 July 1990.
  2. ↑ "THEATRE WEEK: Romeo and Juliet". The Stage and Television Today (5729): 10. 31 January 1991.
  3. ↑ "THEATRE WEEK: The Fire Raisers". The Stage and Television Today (5909): 9. 14 July 1994.
  4. ↑ Natale Angasey (1 June 1995). "Theatre Reviews: Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love". The Stage (5955): 13.
  5. 1 2 Harvey, Dennis (16 June 1997). "Legit: ROAD - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS". Variety . Vol. 367, no. 7. pp. 42, 46.
  6. ↑ Dowell, Ben (15 January 1998). "Review: then what? / SQUASH". The Stage (6092): 12.
  7. ↑ Anglesey, Natalie (7 October 1999). "Review: Angels in America". The Stage (6182): 14.
  8. ↑ Barttett, Chris (2 December 1999). "Theatre Reviews: Something for the Grownups". The Stage (6190): 12.
  9. ↑ Wolf, Matt (2 October 2000). "Legit Reviews: ABROAD - THE CHERRY ORCHARD". Variety . 380 (7): 34–35.


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