
Biography
Owen Teale (born 20 May 1961) is a Welsh actor. Trained at the Guildford School of Acting, Teale made his television debut in The Mimosa Boys in 1984. He later appeared in Knights of God (1989), Great Expectations (1989), Waterfront Beat (1990) and Boon (1990) before being cast as Will Scarlet in the 1991 TV movie Robin Hood. He went on to appear in such series as Dangerfield, Ballykissangel and the long-running Belonging, and later Spooks and Murphy's Law. In 2005, he played a lead role in Marian, Again—opposite Stephen Tompkinson, Samantha Beckinsale and Kelly Harrison—in which he was the abusive husband of Harrison's eponymous character. His film debut was in War Requiem in 1989. He later appeared as Lophakin in the 1999 adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, opposite Charlotte Rampling as Ranevskaya and Alan Bates as Gayev. His appearance in King Arthur, as Pelagius, was relegated to the DVD extended edition. He played Nazi Judge Roland Freisler in the HBO film Conspiracy. In 2006 he appeared in the Torchwood episode "Countrycide"; in 1985, he had appeared in the Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos as "Maldak". In 2006 he had a role in the HBO UK TV movie Tsunami: The Aftermath. In 2007, he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Mind's Eye. In the same year, he starred in The Last Legion. In 2011, appeared as Ser Alliser Thorne in the HBO TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin's novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, called Game of Thrones. Teale has been married twice: to Dilys Watling and then to Sylvestra Le Touzel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Owen Teale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Tony Award — Best Featured Actor in a Play · 1997
Filmography39 titles

Game of Thrones

Line of Duty

Island at War

Doctor Who

A Discovery of Witches

Spooks

Inspector Lewis

Murphy's Law

Sandokan

The Hollow Crown

Silk

Midsomer Murders

River

Ripper Street

Torchwood

Conspiracy

Ballykissangel

The Thin Blue Line

Stella

Dream Horse

Tolkien

The Pembrokeshire Murders: Catching the Gameshow Killer

The Pembrokeshire Murders

The Rig

Wolf

Cleopatra

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Houdini and Doyle

The Fifteen Streets

Death Valley

King Arthur

The Hawk

Tsunami: The Aftermath

Hunky Dory

Robin Hood

Pulse

The Last Legion

David Copperfield

The Fold