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
A graduate of the National Youth Theatre and provincial repertory, Robert Glenister emerged without fanfare as a gifted and versatile leading actor in London during the 1990s: Barnet in Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart (Bush, 1983); Edward Voysey in The Voysey Inheritance (Gregory Hersov, Manchester Royal Exchange, 1989); Shigeo in Tango at the End of Winter (Yukio Ninagawa, Piccadilly and Edinburgh Festival, 1991); Boxler in Naomi Wallace's In the Heart of America (Bush, 1994); Micky in William Gaminara's According to Hoyle (Hampstead Theatre, 1995); Bosola opposite Juliet Stevenson in The Duchess of Malfi (Philip Franks, Greenwich Theatre and Wyndham's, 1995); and, at the National, Stanley in Brighton Beach Memoirs (Michael Rudman, Lyttelton, 1986), Bazarov in Fathers and Sons (Rudman, Lyttelton, 1987), Jan in Nick Darke's Ting Tang Mine (Rudman, Cottesloe, 1987), and Donald in Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills (Patrick Marber, Lyttelton, 1996).
He was at the RSC from 1996 to 98, playing, with originality, Alfred to Joanne Pearce's Rita in the astonishing Little Eyolf (Adrian Noble, Swan, Pit); a sadistic Lorenzo in The Spanish Tragedy (Michael Boyd, Swan, Pit); a dirt-black Caliban in The Tempest (Noble, RST, Barbican); and a paranoid, mentally unstable Vincentio in Measure for Measure (Boyd, RST, Barbican). Subsequent theatre: Astrov in Uncle Vanya (Gregory Hersov, Manchester Royal Exchange, 2001); West in Jez Butterworth's The Winterling (Ian Rickson, Royal Court, 2006).
Screen appearances: the situation comedies Sink or Swim (BBC, 1981) and The Lonelyheart Kid (ITV, 1984); Doctor Who (BBC, 1984); The Bill (ITV, 1988); Keith in Kingsley Amis's Ending Up (Peter Sasdy, ITV, 1989); Pete in Blood Rights (1990); Chancer (ITV, 1990); Boon (ITV, 1992); Jeremy in the film of David Hare's The Secret Rapture (Howard Davies, 1993); Brian Jessel opposite Susan Fleetwood in Michael Frayn's A Landing on the Sun (Nicholas Renton, BBC, 1994); Aristophanes in April de Angelis's Aristophanes: the Gods are Laughing (Channel Four, 1995); Captain Harvile, a fine cameo, in Persuasion (Roger Michell, BBC, 1995); Chris Hughes, the prime suspect, in Prime Suspect 4, 'The Lost Child' (John Madden, ITV, 1996); Dr Markby in Drovers' Gold (Lesley Manning/Tristram Powell, BBC, 1997); David Jason's sergeant in Frost (ITV, 2001); All Forgotten (2000); Just Visiting (2001); Sirens (ITV, 2002); Laissez-passer (Bertrand Tavernier, 2002); Anton Drexler in Hitler: the Rise of Evil (TV, 2003); Nick Dear's Eroica (Simon Cellan Jones, BBC, 2003); Between the Sheets (ITV, 2003); Hustle (BBC, 2004-06); Jane Hall (ITV, 2006).
RSC: Joined 1996
Seasons: 1996/97 (Strat.)-97/98 (Lond.); 1997/98 (Strat.)-98/99 (Lond.)
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