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Romola Garai
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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
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Golden Girls
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Goodnight Children Everywhere
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Harley Granville-Barker
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Trystan Gravelle
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Peter Guinness
Mike Gwilym
Peter Guinness's career began with seasons at Dundee and Southampton. A number of incisive performances in classical roles at the major provincial and fringe theatres brought him to notice: Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet at the Bristol Old Vic; De Flores in The Changeling at the Contact Theatre, Manchester; Aston in The Caretaker at the Greenwich Theatre; Edgar in King Lear (Sam Walters, 1982), a servant in Ostrovsky's The Diary of a Scoundrel (Peter Rowe, 1985), and the title role in Hamlet, the First Quarto (Walters, 1985) at the Orange Tree; the Duke in Measure for Measure (David Thacker, 1985) and the title role in Doctor Faustus (Anthony Clark, 1988) at the Young Vic. He joined the RSC for the 1986/87 season and played Gideon Sachs in David Lan's Flight (Howard Davies, TOP); Theseus in The Two Noble Kinsmen (Barry Kyle, Swan, Mermaid); Frederick in The Rover (John Barton, Swan, Mermaid); a formidable Macduff in the Jonathan Pryce Macbeth (Adrian Noble, RST, Barbican); the Investigator in Vladimir Gubaryev's Chernobyl play Sarcophagus (Jude Kelly, Pit); and James Reilly in They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Ron Daniels, Mermaid).
Subsequent theatre roles: Goroudolin in Too Clever By Half (David Jones) and Sebastian in The Tempest (Miller) at the Old Vic (1989); Trigorin in The Seagull (Anthony Clark) at the Birmingham Rep Studio (1990); Xuthus in Ion (Nicholas Wright) at the RSC (Pit, 1994); the professor opposite Lorna McDevitt in David Mamet's Oleana (Robert David MacDonald) and George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Giles Havergal) at the Glasgow Citizens' (1998-99); Jaques in As You Like It (Marianne Elliott) at the Manchester Royal Exchange (2000); Horace in The Little Foxes (Marianne Elliott) at the Donmar Warehouse (2001); King Thoas in Goethe's Under the Curse (Joe Hill-Gibbins) at the Gate (2003, Catherine McCormack as Iphigenia); Rank in A Doll's House (Rachel Kavanaugh) at the Birmingham Rep (2004); and Guardiano in Women Beware Women (Laurence Boswell) at the RSC (Swan, 2006).
For many years the charismatic, effortlessly imposing Guinness has been luxury casting as a 'heavy' or policeman on television: Smiley's People (BBC, 1982); By the Sword Divided (BBC, 1983); Blackeyes (Dennis Potter, BBC, 1989); Old Flames (Christopher Morahan, BBC, 1989); The Widowmaker (John Madden, ITV, 1990); The Cloning of Joanna May (Philip Saville, ITV, 1992); Spender (BBC, 1992-93); Heartbeat (ITV, 1993); Smokescreen (BBC, 1994); The Bill (ITV, 1996); Hostile Waters (1997); Ivanhoe (BBC, 1997); Cadfael (ITV, 1997); Casualty (BBC, 1997-98); C15 (1998); Rhodes (BBC, 1998); Arabian Nights (2000); Harbour Lights (BBC, 2000); Coronation Street (ITV, 2000-02); The Bill (ITV, 2002); Red Cap (BBC, 2001, 2003); Sea of Souls (BBC, 2004-06); Bleak House (BBC, 2005).
Films: The Keep (Michael Mann, 1983); Alien 3 (David Fincher, 1992); Christopher Columbus (John Glen, 1992); The Saint (Philip Noyce, 1997); Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton, 1999); and Greenfingers (2000).
RSC: Joined 1986
Seasons: 1986 (Strat.)-87 (Lond.); 1994/95 (Lond.); 2006 (Strat.)
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