Nicholas Gledhill

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Nicholas Gledhill

Nicholas Martin Gledhill (born March 7, 1975) is an Australian film and stage actor.

Gledhill was born in Sydney to parents Bobbie Gledhill and Arthur Dignam. He grew up in Glebe, Sydney and went to school at St Andrew's Cathedral School. At the age of 19 he moved to England, to try out for drama school and attended Birmingham School of Speech and Drama from which he graduated in 1997.

He worked extensively in Australia and the UK for more than 25 years. His career began at the age of 6 when he played the central role (PS) in Careful, He Might Hear You in 1983 — for which he was nominated for Best Actor by the Australian Film Institute in 1984. Gledhill appeared in the television series Bodyline in 1984, as the young English captain, Douglas Jardine.^[1] Since then his television and film roles have included appearances in A Country Practice, GP, Dirtwater Dynasty — amongst others. Gledhill studied at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama for three years and, after working in the UK for some time, returned home to Australia to play John Darling in the Jim Henson's Creature Shop production of PAN. He most recently played Edgar and Sebastian in the Shakespeare Globe Centre Australia's production of King Lear and The Tempest and Rosencrantz in Hamlet. Gledhill has also worked as a Stage Combat Master and Choreographer, an acting teacher and is a prize winning writer (ICI/STC Young Writers Competition).