Acting

Stephen Dillane

Born November 30, 1956 · London, England, UK (age 69)

Stephen Dillane (born 27 March 1957, Kensington, London) is a British actor. He is best known as Stannis Baratheon in Game of Thrones (2012–2015), Thomas Jefferson in John Adams (2008, Emmy-nominated), and DCI Karl Roebuck in The Tunnel (2013–2017, BAFTA-winning). He won a Tony Award for The Real Thing (2000). In film, he has appeared in Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Darkest Hour (2017), and Outlaw Kin…

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The Uprising

The Uprising · 2026

MovieHistoryDrama

As war and plague devastate 14th-century England, a humble peasant ignites a rebellion, uniting an army of commoners to defy the King’s might in a desperate fight for justice and survival.

Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty · 2012

Zero Dark Thirty

MovieThrillerDrama

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

Darkest Hour

Darkest Hour · 2017

MovieDramaHistory

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

King Arthur

King Arthur · 2004

MovieAdventureWar

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.

The Outrun

The Outrun · 2024

Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.

Outlaw King

Outlaw King · 2018

MovieActionHistory

Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.

Spy Game

Spy Game · 2001

MovieActionCrime

On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.

Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense · 2011

MovieDramaScience Fiction

In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.

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The Uprising

The Uprising · 2026

MovieHistoryDrama

As war and plague devastate 14th-century England, a humble peasant ignites a rebellion, uniting an army of commoners to defy the King’s might in a desperate fight for justice and survival.

Archbishop Sudbury

Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty · 2012

Zero Dark Thirty

MovieThrillerDrama

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

National Security Advisor

Darkest Hour

Darkest Hour · 2017

MovieDramaHistory

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

Viscount Halifax

King Arthur

King Arthur · 2004

MovieAdventureWar

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.

Merlin

The Outrun

The Outrun · 2024

Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.

Andrew

Outlaw King

Outlaw King · 2018

MovieActionHistory

Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.

King Edward I of England

Spy Game

Spy Game · 2001

MovieActionCrime

On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.

Charles Harker

Perfect Sense

Perfect Sense · 2011

MovieDramaScience Fiction

In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.

Stephen

The Greatest Game Ever Played

The Greatest Game Ever Played · 2005

The Greatest Game Ever Played

A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.

Harry Vardon

The Hours

The Hours · 2002

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

Leonard Woolf

Goal!

MovieDramaFamily

Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.

Glen Foy

Goal II: Living the Dream

Goal II: Living the Dream · 2007

Goal II: Living the Dream

Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.

Glen Foy

The Professor and the Madman

The Professor and the Madman · 2019

The Professor and the Madman

MovieHistoryDrama

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Dr. Richard Brayne

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley · 2017

MovieRomanceDrama

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

William Godwin

Two If by Sea

Two If by Sea · 1996

MovieComedyRomance

Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.

Evan Marsh

The Truth About Charlie

The Truth About Charlie · 2002

The Truth About Charlie

MovieThrillerMystery

Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. Stuck in ever-increasing danger and with four men pursuing her, another stranger offers assistance - but who can she trust?

Charlie Lambert

Nine Lives

Nine Lives · 2005

MovieDramaRomance

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Martin

Hamlet

MovieDramaHistory

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Horatio

Savage Grace

Savage Grace · 2007

This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.

Brooks Baekeland

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience · 2015

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

MovieDramaFantasy

The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Castle Black from the Wildings and features one the fiercest and most intense battle scenes ever filmed for television. The second episode (S4 EP10), features Dany coming to grips with the realities of ruling a kingdom, Bran learning the startling reality of his destiny and Tyrion facing the truth of his unfortunate situation.

Stannis Baratheon

The Gathering

The Gathering · 2003

MovieHorrorThriller

Itinerant traveler Cassie Grant comes out of a car accident in Glastonbury, England, with partial memory loss. The deeply regretful driver allows her to convalesce at a large rural home, where she becomes friends with the woman's stepson, Michael. As Cassie delves into Michael's research about an old, newly discovered area church, it triggers some strange premonitions and offers gradual clues about her deeper links to this British community.

Simon Kirkman

Welcome to Sarajevo

Welcome to Sarajevo · 1997

Welcome to Sarajevo

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.

Michael Henderson

Ordinary Decent Criminal

Ordinary Decent Criminal · 2000

Ordinary Decent Criminal

MovieComedyThriller

Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.

Noel Quigley

The Parole Officer

The Parole Officer · 2001

The Parole Officer

MovieCrimeComedy

A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will save him.

Inspector Burton

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones · 2011

Game of Thrones

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

Stannis Baratheon

The Crown

The Crown · 2016

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Graham Sutherland

Screen Two

Screen Two · 1985

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Leonard Meopham

Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple · 2004

Agatha Christie's Marple

SeriesDramaCrime

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

Finch

Remington Steele

Remington Steele · 1982

Remington Steele

SeriesDramaFamily

Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.

Bradford Galt

Performance

Performance · 1991

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Mr Blackmore

Soldier Soldier

Soldier Soldier · 1991

Soldier Soldier

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.

Captain Mike Davidson

Vigil

SeriesDramaCrime

The mysterious disappearance of a Scottish fishing trawler and a death on-board the submarine HMS Vigil bring the police into conflict with the Navy and British security services. DCI Amy Silva and DS Kirsten Longacre lead an investigation on land and at sea into a conspiracy that goes to the very heart of Britain’s national security.

Shaw

ScreenPlay

ScreenPlay · 1986

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

George

Alex Rider

Alex Rider · 2020

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Alex Rider is an ordinary teenager enlisted to work on behalf of MI6, where he uses skills he didn't know he had to become an extraordinary spy.

Alan Blunt

Sherwood

Sherwood · 2022

SeriesCrimeMystery

Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.

Roy Branson

The Tunnel

The Tunnel · 2013

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

The plot follows detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wasserman working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between France and the UK. They later learn that the killer—who comes to be nicknamed the "Truth Terrorist"—is on a moral crusade to highlight many social problems, terrorising both countries in the process

Karl Roebuck

John Adams

John Adams · 2008

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

Thomas Jefferson

KAOS

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

As discord reigns on Mount Olympus and almighty Zeus spirals into paranoia, three mortals are destined to reshape the future of humankind.

Prometheus

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame · 1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

Captain Lennox

A Touch of Cloth

A Touch of Cloth · 2012

A Touch of Cloth

SeriesComedyCrime

Hannah plays DI Jack Cloth, who is called in to investigate an apparent series of serial killings alongside his new partner, DC Anne Oldman, described as a "plucky, no-nonsense sidekick". Playing with the cliches and conventions of British police dramas, subplots include Cloth dealing with visions of his dead wife and the bisexual DC Oldman coming to grips with her feelings for both her female fiancee and Cloth.

Macratty

Red Election

Red Election · 2021

SeriesCrimeDrama

Danish secret service agent Katrine Poulson and British spy Beatrice Ogilvy are thrown together in a race against time. As a terrorist plot against the British PM unfolds, Poulson and Ogilvy are tangled up in a web of lies, murder and power struggles; they can't trust anyone, and they soon realise the deadly conspiracy could be part of a far-reaching geopolitical masterplan.

William Ogilvy

The Cazalets

The Cazalets · 2001

The Cazalets is a 2001 television drama series about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1947. Most of the action takes place in London, and at the family's large estate in Sussex. The drama was based on the novels of Elizabeth Jane Howard, and adapted by the screenwriter Douglas Livingstone. The series was originally produced by Cinema Verity for BBC One and is available on DVD.

Edward Cazalet

Hunted

SeriesAction & Adventure

Samantha Hunter suspects someone within the private intelligence agency she works at tried to kill her and she seeks to uncover the person behind it.

Rupert Keel

Secret State

Secret State · 2012

Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.

Paul J. Clark

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina · 2000

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation. A four-part British television adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.

Karenin

The Rector's Wife

The Rector's Wife · 1994

The Rector's Wife

Three-part dramatization of the novel by Joanna Trollope. A clergyman's wife shocks the church establishment and infuriates her husband by taking a job in a supermarket. She attracts the passionate interest of three very different men: a newly-appointed archdeacon; his younger brother, a philosopher and academic; and a wealthy businessman new to the village.

Jonathan Byrne

The Wanted Man

The Wanted Man · 2027

For 20 years, Felix Carmichael has been the untouchable leader of Britain's most feared criminal empire. But when a betrayal within his ranks leads to incarceration, Felix will risk everything to exact revenge and reclaim his throne.

John Carmichael

Kings in Grass Castles

Kings in Grass Castles · 1998

Kings in Grass Castles

The life of an Irish immigrant family in Australia in the second half of the 19th century. Based on a 1959 book of history by Dame Mary Durack.

Patsy