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Owen Teale

Acting

Born May 20, 1961 · Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Also known as 오웬 틸

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 AwardBest Featured Actor in a Play · 1997

Filmography39 titles

Game of Thrones

2011as Alliser Thorne

Line of Duty

2012as Philip Osborne

Island at War

2004as PC Wilf Jonas

Doctor Who

1963as Maldak

A Discovery of Witches

2018as Peter Knox

Spooks

2002as Robert Morgan

Inspector Lewis

2006as Nicky Turnbull

Murphy's Law

2003as Paul Allison

Sandokan

2025as Lord Guillonk

The Hollow Crown

2012as Captain Fluellen

Silk

2011as Brian Frogett

Midsomer Murders

1997as Little Mal Kirby

River

2015as Marcus McDonald

Ripper Street

2012as Felix Hackman

Torchwood

2006as Ewan Sherman

Conspiracy

2001as Roland Freisler

Ballykissangel

1996as Conor Devlin

The Thin Blue Line

1995as Gary

Stella

2012as Dai Kosh

Dream Horse

2020as Brian Vokes

Tolkien

2019as Headmaster Gilson

The Pembrokeshire Murders: Catching the Gameshow Killer

2021

The Pembrokeshire Murders

2021as Gerard Elias QC

The Rig

2023as Lars Hutton

Wolf

2023as Oliver Anchor-Ferrers

Cleopatra

1999as Grattius

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Bob North

Houdini and Doyle

2016as Professor Havensling

The Fifteen Streets

1989as John O'Brien

Death Valley

2025as Michael Mallowan

King Arthur

2004as Pelagius (uncredited)

The Hawk

1993as Ken Marsh

Tsunami: The Aftermath

as James Peabody

Hunky Dory

2011as Davey's Dad

Robin Hood

1991as Will Scarlett

Pulse

as Chad Berger

The Last Legion

2007as Vatrenus

David Copperfield

as Ham Peggotty

The Fold

2014as Edward Ashton