 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Jasper Britton | |
|---|---|
 Britton as Petruchio | |
| Born | 11 December 1962 London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Parent(s) | Tony Britton Eva Skytte Birkefeldt |
| Relatives | Fern Britton (half-sister) |
Jasper Britton (born 11 December 1962) is an English actor.
Britton was born in Chelsea in London, and educated at Belmont Preparatory School, Sussex House School [1] and Mill Hill School, north London. Britton is the only son of the actor Tony Britton and his second wife, the Danish sculptor Eva Castle Britton (née Skytte Birkefeldt). His half-sisters are the television presenter Fern Britton and scriptwriter Cherry Britton.
Britton worked for six years as an assistant stage manager and sound operator until 1989 when, while working for Jonathan Miller at the Old Vic, he forced his way into Miller's office and refused to leave until Miller agreed to let him audition for King Lear . His King of France to Eric Porter's Lear was the beginning of a prolific stage career. Early plays included The Visit with Théâtre de Complicité at the Royal National Theatre, The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth and A Flea in her Ear at Nottingham Playhouse. A season at the Royal Shakespeare Company included A Jovial Crew for Max Stafford-Clark, Tamburlaine for Terry Hands and The Beggar's Opera and Antony and Cleopatra for John Caird. There followed the Dauphin in St Joan at the Strand Theatre and an award-winning [ which? ] performance as Rupert in Rope at Salisbury Playhouse.
Upon replacing Eddie Izzard in the title role in Brian Cox's 1995 Richard III , he garnered excellent reviews. He next played the groom role in Blood Wedding at the Young Vic, the first in a series of romantic leads, followed by Rupert Goold's adaptation of End of the Affair, Jonathan Church's Romeo and Juliet and Bill Bryden's Three Sisters.
Britton was part of Trevor Nunn's ensemble company at the National Theatre in 1999, playing Thersites in Troilus and Cressida , Ryumin in Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk , and Smooth in Money . Two seasons at the Shakespeare's Globe for Mark Rylance followed, first playing Palamon in The Two Noble Kinsmen , and Caliban in The Tempest . A year later he returned as Macbeth. After Simon Gray's Japes for Peter Hall at the Haymarket Theatre and Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce at the Aldwych Theatre came Britton's performance as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and The Tamer Tamed for Gregory Doran at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C. respectively, which transferred to the Queen's Theatre in London.
In 2008, he played John Gielgud in Nicholas de Jongh's first play Plague Over England , Nansen in Tony Harrison's Fram and Creon opposite Ralph Fiennes in Oedipus the King , the latter both at the National Theatre. In 2009 he played Elyot in Private Lives opposite Claire Price at Hampstead Theatre, directed by Lucy Bailey. Most recently he played one third of Simon Gray's persona in The Last Cigarette at Chichester Festival Theatre and the Trafalgar Studios, with Felicity Kendal and Nicholas Le Prevost; and Jack Lawson in Mamet's Race at the Hampstead Theatre.[ citation needed ]
He played the title role Barabas in The Jew of Malta production at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2015. He replaced Nigel Lindsay as Henry Bolingbroke when the RSC's 2013 production of Richard II was shown at the Barbican Centre as part of the King and Country Cycle, as well as reprising his role as the title character in Henry IV Parts I and II.
In 2017, he played Dr Rance in the Leicester Curve production of What The Butler Saw . In 2018, he played Johnny 'Rooster' Byron in the first revival of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
Britton played the Court Laureate in Terrence Malick's The New World alongside Colin Farrell, Jonathan Pryce and Christian Bale. He donned bells and hankies to play Will Frosser, the foreman of the Millsham Morris Side in the film Morris: A Life with Bells On.[ citation needed ]
Britton's television credits include two series of My Dad's the Prime Minister , and Brief Encounters: Semi-Detached for the BBC, as well as Highlander: The Series . He appeared in two 2006 TV films: as pirate William Howard in Blackbeard with Mark Umbers and Stacy Keach, and alongside Oliver Dimsdale and Heathcote Williams in as Henry II in Nostradamus .[ citation needed ]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The New World | Laureate | |
| 2009 | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Will Frosser | |
| 2011 | Anonymous | Pope | |
| 2012 | Blood | Daniel Heston | |
| 2014 | Royal Shakespeare Company: Henry IV Part I | Henry IV | |
| 2014 | Royal Shakespeare Company: Henry IV Part II | ||
| 2014 | Night Will Fall | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2014 | German Concentration Camps Factual Survey | ||
| 2015 | Rise of the Footsoldier Part II | Norton | |
| 2017 | What the Butler Saw. | Dr. Rance | Direct-to-video |
| 2019 | Here Comes Hell | The Host |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Ever Decreasing Circles | Football Supporter | Episode: "Relaxation" |
| 1995 | The Bill | Vernon | Episode: "Bad Pictures" |
| 1995 | Casualty | Graham Webster | Episode: "Castles in the Air" |
| 1996 | Mike and Angelo | William Shakespeare | Episode: "My Pal Puck" |
| 1997 | Breakout | Lenny Johnson | Television film |
| 1997 | Highlander: The Series | Willie Kingsley | Episode: "Diplomatic Immunity" |
| 2000 | Big Kids | Ming | 3 episodes |
| 2002 | The Cry | Mark Billington | 4 episodes |
| 2002 | Heartbeat | Stanley Hodges | Episode: "A Many Splendoured Thing" |
| 2003 | Murder in Mind | George Blakeney | Episode: "Echoes" |
| 2003–2004 | My Dad's the Prime Minister | Duncan Packer | 13 episodes |
| 2005 | Midsomer Murders | Anselm Plummer | Episode: "Sauce for the Goose" |
| 2005 | Carrie & Barry | Policeman | Episode: "Banned Barry" |
| 2006 | The Royal | Paul Guthrie | Episode: "Thinking Too Hard" |
| 2006 | Brief Encounters | Richard | Episode: "Semi-Detached" |
| 2006 | Nostradamus | Henry II of France | Television film |
| 2006 | Blackbeard | William Howard | 3 episodes |
| 2010 | Garrow's Law | Captain Colingwood | Episode #2.1 |
Timothy Lancaster West, CBE is an English actor and presenter. He has appeared frequently on stage and television, including stints in both Coronation Street and EastEnders, and Not Going Out, as the original Geoffrey Adams. He is married to the actress Prunella Scales; from 2014 to 2019, they travelled together on UK and overseas canals in the Channel 4 series Great Canal Journeys.
The Noël Coward Theatre, formerly known as the Albery Theatre, is a West End theatre in St. Martin's Lane in the City of Westminster, London. It opened on 12 March 1903 as the New Theatre and was built by Sir Charles Wyndham behind Wyndham's Theatre which was completed in 1899. The building was designed by the architect W. G. R. Sprague with an exterior in the classical style and an interior in the Rococo style.
Sir Antony Sher was a British actor, writer and theatre director of South African origin. A two-time Laurence Olivier Award winner and a four-time nominee, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 and toured in many roles, as well as appearing on film and television. In 2001, he starred in his cousin Ronald Harwood's play Mahler's Conversion, and said that the story of a composer sacrificing his faith for his career echoed his own identity struggles.
Marius Re Goring, was an English stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in A Matter of Life and Death and as Julian Craster in The Red Shoes. He is also known for playing the title role in the long-running TV drama series, The Expert. He regularly performed French and German roles, and was frequently cast in the latter because of his name, coupled with his red-gold hair and blue eyes. However, in a 1965 interview, he explained that he was not of German descent, stating that "Goring is a completely English name."
Michael Vivian Fyfe Pennington is a British actor, director and writer. Together with director Michael Bogdanov, he founded the English Shakespeare Company in 1986 and was its Joint Artistic Director until 1992. He has written ten books, directed in the UK, US, Romania and Japan, and is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is popularly known as Moff Jerjerrod in the original Star Wars trilogy film Return of the Jedi.
John Woodvine is an English actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.
Michael John Attenborough is an English theatre director.
Forbes (Robertson) Masson is a Scottish actor and writer. He is an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is best known for his roles in classical theatre, musicals, comedies, and appearances in London's West End. He is also known for his comedy partnership with Alan Cumming. Masson and Cumming wrote The High Life, a Scottish situation comedy in which they play the lead characters, Steve McCracken and Sebastian Flight. Characters McCracken and Flight were heavily based on Victor and Barry, famous Scottish comedy alter-egos of Masson and Cumming. Masson also stars in the 2021 film The Road Dance, set on the Isle of Lewis as the Reverend MacIver.
Anthony Edward Lowry Britton was an English actor. He appeared in a variety of films and television sitcoms (including Don't Wait Up and Robin's Nest.
Alan MacKenzie Howard, CBE was an English actor. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1983 and played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre between 1992 and 2000.
Simon Coates is a British actor who has worked extensively with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, with whom he has appeared internationally, working with directors such as Sir Richard Eyre, Robert Lepage, Howard Davies, William Gaskill, Sir David Hare, Declan Donnellan, Tim Supple, Sir Tom Stoppard, David Farr, Lindsay Posner, Sean Holmes, Katie Mitchell, Indhu Rubasingham, Phyllida Lloyd, Thea Sharrock, Dame Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Trevor Nunn, Robert Icke, Simon Godwin, James Dacre, Rupert Goold, Gregory Doran, Blanche McIntyre and Sir Michael Boyd.
Rupert Goold is an English director who works primarily in theatre. He is the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, and was the artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company (2005–2013).
Christopher Ravenscroft is an English actor, best known for his recurring role as DI Mike Burden in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, the ITV adaptation of Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford mysteries.
George Winchester Howe was an English actor who played numerous stage roles, was a frequent broadcaster on radio and television and appeared in four feature films.
Sir Gregory Doran is an English director known for his Shakespearean work. The Sunday Times called him 'one of the great Shakespearians of his generation'.
Kate Fleetwood is an English actress. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, at Chichester Festival Theatre and the West End and Broadway and an Olivier Award nomination in 2012 for her performance as Julie in London Road at the National Theatre. Her film and television credits include Vanity Fair (2004), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), Macbeth (2010), Philomena (2013), London Road (2015), Harlots (2017-2019), and The Wheel of Time (2021).
The Ian Charleson Awards are theatrical awards that reward the best classical stage performances in Britain by actors under age 30. The awards are named in memory of the renowned British actor Ian Charleson, and are run by the Sunday Times newspaper and the National Theatre. The awards were established in 1990 after Charleson's death, and have been awarded annually since then. Sunday Times theatre critic John Peter (1938–2020) initiated the creation of the awards, particularly in memory of Charleson's extraordinary Hamlet, which he had performed shortly before his death. Recipients receive a cash prize, as do runners-up and third-place winners.
Felicity Jane Dean is a British actress, who is critically acclaimed for her extensive work in film and on stage, including works with, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Al Pacino, HBO, Sir Jonathan Miller and Joseph Losey.
Lucy Bailey is a British theatre director, known for productions such as Baby Doll at Britain's National Theatre and a notorious Titus Andronicus, described by a critic as "all eye-catchingly visceral but there’s little depth". Bailey founded the Gogmagogs theatre-music group (1995–2006) and was Artistic Director and joint founder of the Print Room theatre in West London (2010-2012). She has worked extensively with Bunny Christie and other leading stage designers, including her husband William Dudley.
Andrew Piers Marsden Hilton is an English actor, theatre director, and author best known for the creation of the Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory company in Bristol 1999 - 2021.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
