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Cain
John Caird
Jonathan Cake
David Calder
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Michael Calf
Camille
Camino Real
Cheryl Campbell
Il Candelaio
Can Opener
The Canterbury Tales
Captain Swing
John Carlisle
Jason Carr
Carrie
Nancy Carroll
Elaine Cassidy
The Castle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Changeling
Jan Chappell
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson Awards
Geoffrey Chaucer
Paddy Chayefsky
Anton Chekhov
Nick Chelton
The Cherry Orchard
Children of the Sun
Alison Chitty
A Christmas Carol
Christopher Columbus
Tony Church
Caryl Churchill
The Churchill Play
Clay
Dennis Clinton
A Clockwork Orange
The Collection
Patience Collier
Columbus and the Discovery of Japan
The Comedy of Errors
Complete Works Festival
Comrades
Kerry Condon
William Congreve
Shelley Conn
Paule Constable
The Constant Couple
Nina Conti
Kandis Cook
Ron Cook
Dominic Cooke
Nigel Cooke
Richard Cordery
Coriolanus
Charlotte Cornwell
Oliver Cotton
Yvonne Coulette
Country Dancing
The Country Wife
Courtyard Theatre
Cousin Vladimir
Andrea J. Cox
Brian Cox
Claire Cox
Cries from the Casement
Crimes in Hot Countries
The Criminals
Derbhle Crotty
Bob Crowley
The Crucible
Frances Cuka
Paddy Cunneen
Liam Cunningham
Julian Curry
Curse of the Starving Class
Curtmantle
Cyril Cusack
Niamh Cusack
Sinéad Cusack
The Custom of the Country
Cymbeline
Cyrano de Bergerac
Nigel Cooke

Nigel Cooke started out in Bristol. He went from the Old Vic School into the Old Vic Company, and then co-founded the Little Theatre. His work for the latter included Cliff to Daniel Day-Lewis's Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (George Costigan, 1981).

He first appeared with the RSC in 1983/84, and has been a regular member, growing in prominence, since 1992: Octavius Caesar in Julius Caesar (Ron Daniels, RST, 1983, Barbican, 1984); Sebastian in Twelfth Night (John Caird, RST, 1983, Barbican, 1984); Surrey in Henry VIII (Howard Davies, RST, 1983, Barbican, 1984); Bonario in Volpone (Bill Alexander, TOP, 1983, Pit, 1984); Oleg/Moloka in Charles Wood's Red Star (Caird, Pit, 1984); Tom Stone (Shakespeare) in Peter Whelan's The School of Night (Alexander, TOP, 1992, Pit, 1993); Nym/Montjoy in the Iain Glen Henry V (Matthew Warchus, RST, 1994, Barbican, 1995); Mr Wellvile in The Wives' Excuse (Max Stafford-Clark, Swan, 1994, Pit, 1995); Father Karolyi in David Edgar's Pentecost (Michael Attenborough, TOP, 1994, Young Vic, 1995); Listener/Speaker/Henry/Auditor in Beckett Shorts (Katie Mitchell, TOP and European Tour, 1997); Macduff in the Antony Sher Macbeth (Gregory Doran, Swan, 1999, Young Vic, 2000); the 2005 'Gunpowder' season (Swan)—the title role in Thomas Moore (Robert Delamere), Marcellus/Stoic in Believe What You Will (Josie Rourke), Arruntius in Sejanus: His Fall (Doran), Cecil in Speaking Like Magpies (Rupert Goold); and the 2006/07 Complete Works festival (Swan)—Lysimachus in Pericles (Dominic Cooke), Polixenes in The Winter's Tale (Cooke), and Lenny in Roy Williams's Days of Significance (Maria Aberg).

Other theatre work: Alan Bleasdale's Having a Ball (Lyric Hammersmith, 1981); Officer, succeeding Albie Woodington, in Adrian Noble's production of The Duchess of Malfi (Roundhouse, 1981); Serious Money (Stafford-Clark, Wyndham's, 1987); The Recruiting Officer and Our Country's Good (Stafford-Clark, Royal Court and Garrick, 1989); Nick in Martin Crimp's Getting Attention (Jude Kelly, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 1991); An Inspector Calls (Stephen Daldry, Garrick); the Kevin Spacey Iceman Cometh (Howard Davies, Almeida and Old Vic, 1998); and Robespierre in Pam Gems's The Snow Palace (Janet Suzman, Tour and Tricycle Theatre, 1998).

Television: Why Lockerbie? (1990); Between the Lines (BBC, 1994); Casualty (BBC, 1997); The Bill (ITV, 1999); Peak Practice (ITV, 1999); Silent Witness (BBC, 1999); Poirot (ITV, 2000); Casualty 1906 (BBC, 2006).
Actor, b. Dunkwa, Ghana, [1957]
Education: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
RSC: Joined 1983
Seasons: 1983 (Strat.)-84 (Lond.); 1992 (Strat.)-93 (Lond.); 1994 (Strat.)-95 (Lond.); 1997 (Strat./European Tour); 1999/00 (Strat.)-00 (Lond.); 2005 (Strat., Swan company)-05/06 (Lond.); 2006/07 (Strat., Complete Works)
     
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