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Baal
Babies Grow Old
Back to Methuselah
Bad Weather
George Baker
Sean Baker
The Balcony
Bandits
Teresa Banham
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Frances Barber
The Barbican
Howard Barker
Peter Barnes
Desmond Barrit
Bartholomew Fair
John Barton
Linda Bassett
Bastard Angel
Alan Bates
Simon Russell Beale
Sean Bean
The Beast
Maureen Beattie
Francis Beaumont
Beauty and the Beast
The Beaux' Stratagem
Becket
Samuel Beckett
Beckett Shorts
The Beggar's Opera
Brendan Behan
Katy Behean
Aphra Behn
Belcher's Luck
Believe What You Will
Christopher Benjamin
Paul Bentall
John Berger
Sarah Berger
Cicely Berry
Suzanne Bertish
Kirsty Besterman
Paul Bettany
The Bewitched
Bingo
Birdsong
The Birthday Party
The Bite of the Night
Colin Blakely
Claudie Blakley
Marjorie Bland
Brian Blessed
The Blue Angel
The Body
Michael Bogdanov
Robert Bolt
Edward Bond
Samantha Bond
Ken Bones
Hugh Bonneville
Laurence Boswell
John Bott
Dion Boucicault
John Bowe
Raymond Bowers
Robert Bowman
Stephen Boxer
Michael Boyd
Danny Boyle
David Bradley
John Bradley
Cathryn Bradshaw
Kenneth Branagh
Brand
Breaking the Silence
Bertolt Brecht
Howard Brenton
David Brierley
The Bright and Bold Design
Stephen Brimson Lewis
Jasper Britton
Brixton Stories
Jim Broadbent
The Broken Heart
Richard Brome
Peter Brook
Siân Brooke
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Bille Brown
Susan Brown
Brenda Bruce
Emily Bruni
Giordano Bruno
Robert Bryan
Georg Büchner
Mikhail Afanaseyev Bulgakov
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Bundle
Anthony Burgess
Alfred Burke
Alan Burrett
John Bury
Judy Buxton
Patsy Byrne
Lord Byron
Sean Baker

Sean Baker's early theatre work included the National's 1980/81 season: Ballad Singer in The Life of Galileo (John Dexter, Olivier); Apprentice in Thomas Dekker's The Shoemakers' Holiday (Dexter, Olivier); and Chorus in The Oresteia (Peter Hall, Olivier).

An often chillingly puritanical figure (on the stage), he was at the RSC from 1985 to 89: Pyotr Vasilyevich in Gorky's Philistines (John Caird, TOP, 1985, Pit, 1986); Paris in Troilus and Cressida (Howard Davies, RST, 1985, Barbican, 1986); Chevalier Danceny in Christopher Hampton's Les liaisons dangereuses (Davies, TOP, 1985, Pit, 1986); Barnes' People (TOP, 1985); Sebastian Brückner in Mephisto (Adrian Noble, Barbican, 1986); Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Blood on the Neck of the Cat (Alan Rickman, fringe festival production, Almeida, 1986); Ernesto Pico in Richard Nelson's Principia Scriptoriae (David Jones, Pit, 1986); Cassius in Julius Caesar (Terry Hands, RST, 1987, Barbican, 1988); Giles Pearson in Heidi Thomas's Indigo (Sarah Pia Anderson, TOP, 1987); Hippolito in The Revenger's Tragedy (Di Trevis, Swan, 1987, Pit, 1988); Angelo in Measure for Measure (Nicholas Hytner, RST, 1987); Shade in Howard Barker's The Bite of the Night (Danny Boyle, Pit, 1988); Lawrence/Ted in Stephen Lowe's Divine Gossip (Barry Kyle, Pit, 1988); Peter Reese/A Black Dog in Howard Brenton's The Churchill Play (Kyle, Barbican, 1988); and Cassio in Othello (Trevor Nunn, TOP and Young Vic, 1989).

Appearances since 1990: Leontes in The Winter's Tale (Phyllida Lloyd, Manchester Royal Exchange, 1991); Ball in Howard Barker's Victory (Greenwich Theatre, 1991); Stefano in The Tempest (Michael Bogdanov, English Shakespeare Company, Tour, 1992); Krogstad in Ibsen's A Doll's House (Stephen Unwin, English Touring Theatre, 2004); Arnholm in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea (Lindsay Posner, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Lyric Hammersmith, 1994); Frans Hals in John Constable's Tulip Futures (Abigail Morris, Cockpit, 1994); Krak in Howard Barker's The Castle (Kenny Ireland, The Wrestling School, Riverside Studios and Tour, 1995); Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good (Caroline Hall), Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Gerard Murphy), and Claudius in Hamlet (Ireland, Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, 1995); the Duke in Measure for Measure (Stéphane Braunschweig, Edinburgh Festival and Nottingham Playhouse, 1997, Barbican, 1998); Freud in Terry Johnson's Hysteria (Joanna Read, Octagon Theatre, Bolton, 1998); Pastor Manders in Ibsen's Ghosts (David Hunt, Theatre Royal, Plymouth, 1999); Ash in Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice (Angus Jackson, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, 2002); the Cardinal Inquisitor in Brecht's The Life of Galileo (David Salter, Battersea Arts Centre, 2002); Andrew Marvell in Oliver Ford Davies's King Cromwell (Sam Walters, Orange Tree, 2003); John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (Jonathan Church, Birmingham Rep company, Old Vic, 2004); and Jean Anouilh's Becket (John Caird, Theatre Royal Haymarket, 2004).
Actor
RSC: Joined 1985
Seasons: 1985 (Strat.)-86 (Lond.); 1987 (Strat.)-88 (Lond.); 1989 (Strat./Lond.)
     
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