Stephen Dillane

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Stephen Dillane (born c.1957) is a Tony award winning British Actor.

Dillane was born in London, England, UK, to an Australian surgeon father and an English mother. He read history and political science at the University of Exeter and afterward became a journalist for the Croydon Advertiser. Unhappy in his career, he read how actor Trevor Eve gave up architecture for acting and was thus inspired to enter the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

He is a distinguished theatre actor and his notable roles include Prior Walter in Angels in America (1993), Hamlet (1994), Clov in Samuel Beckett's Endgame (1996), Uncle Vanya (1998), Henry in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing for which he won a Tony (2000) and a one-man version of Macbeth (2005).

On screen, Dillane has portrayed Michael Henderson in Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), a character based on British journalist Michael Nicholson. He is also known for his portrayal of Leonard Woolf in The Hours (2002) and of English golf pro Harry Vardon in The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005).

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