Mariah Gale
Michael Gambon
Romola Garai
Jimmy Gardner
William Gaskill
John Gay
Peter Geddis
Pam Gems
The General from America
Jean Genet
Michel de Ghelderode
Ghosts
John Gielgud
The Gift of the Gorgon
Alexandra Gilbreath
Peter Gill
Jean Giraudoux
Iain Glen
Robert Glenister
Jamie Glover
Julian Glover
The Glowing Manikin
God Bless
Derek Godfrey
Patrick Godfrey
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nikolai Gogol
Golden Girls
Carlo Goldoni
Stella Gonet
Good
Buzz Goodbody
Henry Goodman
Goodnight Children Everywhere
Rupert Goold
Marius Goring
Maxim Gorky
Gordon Gostelow
Orlando Gough
The Government Inspector
Fraser Grace
Nickolas Grace
Michael Grandage
Harley Granville-Barker
Günter Grass
Trystan Gravelle
Simon Gray
Great Expectations
The Great White Hope
The Greeks
Graham Greene
Paul Greenwood
David Greig
Richard Griffiths
Trevor Griffiths
Pippa Guard
Vladimir Gubaryev
Peter Guinness
Mike Gwilym
Iain Glen left RADA with the Bancroft Gold Medal in 1985. He started superbly as a menacing north London villain, a Pinkie of the 80s, in The Fear (ITV, 1988), and as a young businessman, spending a night with Charlotte Rampling, in Paris By Night (David Hare, 1988). After his small part in Gorillas in the Mist (Michael Apted, 1988), he won the key role of John Hanning Speke in Bob Rafelson's handsome epic Mountains of the Moon (1990). Also in 1990 he played Hamlet in Tom Stoppard's film of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and appeared alongside Julie Christie in Fools of Fortune (Pat O'Connor). These were quiet projects, far removed from his harrowing performance as Larry Winters in Silent Scream (David Hayman, 1990, Best Actor Award at Berlin).
It was a watershed. Glen has turned increasingly to the classical theatre to find roles as stretching as Winters. Previous work on the stage had included Brazen in The Recruiting Officer, Ekdal in The Wild Duck (Birmingham Rep), Spencer the Younger in Edward II (Nicholas Hytner, Manchester Royal Exchange, 1986), and Ridley in Tom Stoppard's Hapgood (West End, 1988). He now brought danger, intelligence and subtlety to Hamlet (Paul Unwin, Bristol Old Vic, 1991); Aufidius opposite Kenneth Branagh's Coriolanus (Tim Supple, Chichester, 1992); the title role in Macbeth (Michael Boyd, Tron, Glasgow, 1993); and Edgar in King Lear (Max Stafford-Clark, Royal Court, 1993). At the RSC, in 1994/95, his Henry V (Matthew Warchus, RST, Barbican) was thoughtful, troubled, quick-witted—but ruthless in politics and battle. In the same season, reunited with the Tron's Michael Boyd, he played Orgilus in John Ford's The Broken Heart (Swan, Pit).
This last performance revealed a fine singing voice but it was still a surprise when Glen signed with Cameron MacKintosh to sing the lead in the Boublil and Schönberg musical Martin Guerre (Declan Donnellan, Prince Edward, 1996). He has since partnered Nicole Kidman in The Blue Room (Sam Mendes, Donmar Warehouse and New York, 1998); played Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire (Trevor Nunn, NT Lyttelton, 2002); Trigorin in The Seagull (Peter Stein, King's Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, 2003); Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler (Richard Eyre, Almeida, 2005); and, returning to the RSC, John Proctor to Elaine Cassidy's Abigail in The Crucible (Dominic Cooke, RST and Gielgud, 2006).
His screen career continues to be remarkably diverse, mixing character and leading roles in all genres: the title role in Adam Bede (BBC, 1991); Frankie's House (ITV, 1992); Black and Blue (TV, 1992); The Young Americans (1993); Painted Lady (ITV, 1997); Mr Preston in Wives and Daughters (BBC, 1999); The Wyvern Mystery (BBC, 2000); Paranoid (John Duigan, 2000); Beautiful Creatures (2000); Glasgow Kiss (BBC, 2000); Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001); Jimmy Spud (2001); Lee Hall's Gabriel and Me (2001); Darkness (Jaume Balagueró, 2002); Jung in Prendimi l'anima (Roberto Faenza, 2003); Spy Sorge (Masahiro Shinoda, 2003); Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004); Man to Man (Régis Wargnier, 2005); Kidnapped (BBC, 2005); Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott, 2005); Tara Road (Gillies MacKinnon, 2005); Small Engine Repair (2006); The Last Legion (2007); Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007); Resident Evil: Extinction (2007).
Education: Aberdeen University; RADA
RSC: Joined 1994
Seasons: 1994 (Strat.)-95 (Lond.); 2006 (Strat./Lond.)
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