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Madness in Valencia
Dominic Mafham
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Michael Maloney
Malvern Festival
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Tom Mannion
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Ashley Martin-Davis
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Michael Maloney played the Hamlet-obsessed actor in Kenneth Branagh's In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) and Leartes in Branagh's Hollywood Hamlet (1996). His distinctive vocal delivery, fast and emphatic, found its most suitable outlet in his own acclaimed performance of the role—a Hamlet showing the effects of extreme mental disquiet in every word and gesture (Philip Franks, Greenwich and Tour, 1996-97).
This was Michael Maloney's second classical triumph, following his watchful, enigmatic Hal in Adrian Noble's RSC production of Henry IV (RST, 1991, Barbican, 1992) [see
image]. He first appeared with the RSC in 1982-83, playing
Donalbain in Macbeth (Howard Davies, RST, Barbican); Ben in Edward
Bond's Lear (Barry Kyle, TOP, Pit); Ferdinand opposite Alice Krige's
Miranda in The Tempest (Ron Daniels, RST, Barbican); Eros in the Helen
Mirren/Michael Gambon Antony and Cleopatra (Noble, TOP, Pit); and Master
Greenwit in The Roaring Girl (Kyle, Barbican). In 1991-92, along with
Hal, he played Romeo opposite Clare Holman in Romeo and Juliet (David
Leveaux, RST, Barbican), and Frankford opposite Saskia Reeves in A Woman
Killed with Kindness (Katie Mitchell, TOP, Pit).Maloney is saturnine in appearance, but projects melancholia rather that menace—hence the hapless innocents and depressives that feature among his television roles: Telford's Change; The Last Place on Earth (Ferdinand Fairfax, 1985); Henry Kirk in Ann Devlin's Naming the Names (Stuart Burge, 1986); the betrayed husband in Anthony Minghella's What if it's Raining (Channel Four, 1986); William Boot in Scoop (Gavin Millar, 1987); Starlings (David Wheatley, 1988); Nobody Here But Us Chickens (Peter Barnes, Channel Four, 1989); Lee opposite Juliet Stevenson in Anthony Minghella's Living with Dinosaurs (Paul Weiland, 1989); Gregory opposite Imogen Stubbs in Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking (Michael A. Simpson, BBC, 1990); the Rik Mayal comedy Micky Love (Nick Hamm, 1993); Jaspar Pye in Love on a Branch Line (Martyn Friend, 1993); Signs and Wonders (Maurice Phillips, BBC, 1995); the Dawn French comedy Sex and Chocolate (Gavin Millar, BBC, 1997); Painted Lady (ITV, 1997); Children of the New Forest (BBC, 1998); Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC, 2000); Bob Cratchett in A Christmas Carol (ITV, 2000); The Swap (2001); the Rik Mayal sitcom Believe Nothing (ITV, 2002); Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Tim Supple, Channel Four, 2003); Prosper Profound in The Forsyte Saga (BBC, 2003); and The Last Detective (ITV, 2004).
Maloney's best film roles have come through Kenneth Branagh and Anthony Minghella: the Dauphin in Henry V (Branagh, 1989); Roderigo, a suburb cameo, in the Branagh/Fishburne Othello (Oliver Parker, 1995); and Mark in Truly Madly Deeply (Minghella, 1991). Other films include: Richard's Things (Anthony Harvey, 1981); Agatha Christie's Ordeal by Innocence (Desmond Davis, 1984); Sharma and Beyond (Brian Gilbert, 1986); La Maschera (Fiorella Infascelli, 1988); Hysteria (Rene Daalder, 1996); Looking for Richard (Al Pacino, 1996); Sans plomb (Muriel Téodori, 2000); and Bienvenue au gîte (Claude Duty, 2003).
Other theatre: the title role in Peer Gynt (Cambridge Theatre); Florizel in The Winter's Tale (West End); Ramble in The London Cuckolds (Lyric Hammersmith); Nils in Up in Sweden (King's Head); Colin in Brian Clark's Can You Hear Me at the Back? (Piccadilly); Tristram in Alan Ayckbourn's Taking Steps (Lyric Hammersmith, 1980); Eric in The Perfectionist (Hampstead Theatre); Richard II in Minghella's Two Planks and a Passion (Greenwich Theatre, 1984); Andrew in Daniel Mornin's Built on Sand (Royal Court, 1987); Chris Keller in the John Thaw All My Sons (Gregory Hersov, Manchester Royal Exchange, 1988); William Blake in Jack Shepherd's In Lambeth (Shepherd, Donmar Warehouse, 1989); and, at the National, Mike in Peter Gill's In the Blue (Gill, Cottesloe, 1985), Benjamin Britten in Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens (Paul Godfrey, Cottesloe, 1990), and Dodgson in Christopher Hampton's Alice's Adventures Underground (Martha Clarke, Cottesloe, 1994).
He returned to the RSC in 1999 to play Edgar in Yukio Ninagawa's production of King Lear (Tokyo, Barbican and RST). In 2001, at the Royal Court, he gave a powerful performance as an Aids sufferer in Kevin Elyot's Mouth to Mouth (Ian Rickson, also Albery). In 2004, reunited with Ninagawa, he played his second Hamlet (Theatre Royal, Plymouth, Tour and Barbican).
Education: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
RSC: Joined 1982
Seasons: 1982 (Strat.)-83 (Lond.); 1991 (Strat.)-92 (Lond.); 1999 (Tokyo/Lond.)-99/00 (Strat.)
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