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Anton Lesser is a versatile and acclaimed actor who has appeared in films, TV shows, radio and audio books. He is known for his roles in Pirates of the Caribbean, Game of Thrones, Endeavour and Charles Dickens adaptations.
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Anton Lesser is a British actor who has played many Shakespearian roles and audiobooks. He was born in 1952 in Birmingham, England, and is married to Madeleine Lesser.
- February 14, 1952
Jul 9, 2019 · Listen to the actor who plays Chief Superintendent Bright and Qyburn talk about his roles in Endeavour and Game of Thrones. Find out how he approaches different characters, genres and challenges in this podcast interview.
- Charlotte Gray
- Midsomer Murders Season 11, Episode 7 "Talking to The Dead"
- The Hour
- Game of Thrones
- Endeavour
- Wolf Hall
- The Crown
- 1899
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The 2001 World War II drama, Charlotte Gray, stars Cate Blanchettas the title character, a Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied France. Lesser plays Monsieur Renech, the village's duplicitous schoolmaster who only takes advantage of the political climate to help himself.
This 2008 episode of Midsomer Murders is just an example of the plethora of one-off guest-starring roles Lesser could be found playing in the 2000s. (He also appeared in MI-5, New Tricks, Silent Witness, and Agatha Christie's Poirot,among others.) In this episode, Lesser is a pompous cleric, Rev. Wallace Stone, who is understandably upset about a f...
In 2011, Lesser was cast in this new BBC period drama, The Hour, set during the mid-50s. He plays Clarence Fendley, the Head of BBC News, who has tasked his bright young talent to produce a current affairs magazine show. Journalist Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw) and producer Bel Rowley (Romola Garai) get caught up in a dangerous espionage situation, bu...
Anton Lesser landed two high-profile, long-term roles in 2013. First, he joined the cast of the wildly successful HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones.He featured in six of the show's eight seasons as Qyburn, an unethical maester (scholarly advisor) with a Dr. Frankenstein vibe. He was thrown out of the order for conducting unethical human expe...
The second long-standing role Lesser originated in 2013 is likely very familiar to most Masterpiece viewers, as Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright in Endeavour. When first introduced, Bright is an old-school officer, concerned with rank and his social superiors and critical of Morse's investigative prowess. But as the series continues, the Chief ...
In Wolf Hall, the BBC adaption of Hilary Mantel'sbest-selling novels about the rise of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII, Lesser portrays Sir Thomas More. One of several Lord Chancellors during Henry's reign, More's deep-held Catholic beliefs force him to oppose his King's split with the pope. Lesser's performance was BAFTA-nominated but e...
Lesser joined another prestigious series, Netflix's The Crown, in its second season in 2017 for a one-and-done stint, taking on the role of British politician Harold Macmillan. When Season 2 begins in 1956, Macmillan is Chancellor of the Exchequer under PM Eden. When Eden resigned the following year due to the Suez Crisis, Macmillan succeeded him a...
And finally, from the Coming Soon category, Lesser can be heard in voiceover on this teaser trailer for the new Netflix multilingual period horror series 1899, from the creators of the German time-traveling puzzlebox drama Dark. So far, we know that a group of European migrants leave London on a steamship to start new lives in New York City. But on...
Anton Lesser is a British actor who has performed in Shakespeare, Dickens, and Game of Thrones. He also voices audiobooks and narrates historical dramas such as Wolf Hall and The Crown.
Anton Lesser is a British actor who has appeared in many films, TV shows and stage plays. He is known for his roles as Qyburn in Game of Thrones, Thomas More in Wolf Hall, and Harold Macmillan in The Crown.
I had a wonderful chat with the actor Anton Lesser about his roles in shows like "Andor", "Game of Thrones" and now in "Better". We also talk about his life ...
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Season 9. Short | 02:49. Anton Lesser looks back on his years playing Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright, and what the experience has meant to him personally.
