Oliver Cotton

Após treinar no Drama Centre London, ele trabalhou extensivamente no Royal National Theatre, participando de muitas produções, incluindo "The Royal Hunt of the Sun", "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", "Much Ado About Nothing", "As You Like It", "Oedipus", "In His Own Write", "Hamlet", "Tamburlaine", "No Man's Land", "The Passion", "Despatches", "Half Life", "The World Turned Upside Down", "Julius Caesar", "The Madras House", "The Man With the Flower in His Mouth", "Tales from the Vienna Woods", "The Crucible", "Piano", "Troilus and Cressida", "Money", "Summerfolk", "The Villain's Opera", "Life x 3".

No Royal Court Theatre, ele apareceu em "The Local Stigmatic", "The Duchess of Malfi", "Man is Man", "The Enoch Show", "Erronenous Zones", "The Tutor" de Brecht, "Lear" e "Bingo" de Edward Bond e "Piano/Forte" de Terry Johnson.

Ele foi membro fundador da Joint Stock, aparecendo em sua produção inaugural "The Speakers" de Heathcote Williams. Na Royal Shakespeare Company, ele atuou em "The Marrying of Ann Leete", "Henry VI", "Edward IV", "Richard III", "The Plain Dealer", "Some Americans Abroad" de Richard Nelson, "Brand" de Ibsen.

Suas aparições no West End incluem "The Homecoming" de Harold Pinter, "Children of a Lesser God" de Mark Medoff, "Benefactors" de Michael Frayn (na qual ele também apareceu em "Liberty Hall" no Greenwich Theatre), "An Ideal Husband" de Oscar Wilde, "Life x 3" de Yasmina Reza e "Brand" de Ibsen. Ele também interpretou o papel-título em "King Lear" no Southwark Playhouse e Malvolio na produção exclusivamente masculina de "Twelfth Night" do Shakespeare's Globe.

Suas muitas aparições na TV incluem "The Borgias" (Cesare Borgia), "David Copperfield", "The Year of the French", "The Play on One", "Redemption", "Poirot", "The Camomile Lawn", "Westbeach", "Zorro", "Sharpe's Battle", "Rhodes", "All Quiet on the Preston Front", "Innocents", "Judge John Deed", "Inspector Lynley", "Waking the Dead", "M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team", "Beastly Games", "Sensitive Skin", "Midsomer Murders", "Hotel Babylon".

Seus filmes incluem "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush", "The Day Christ Died", "Firefox", "Oliver Twist", "The Sicilian", "Eleni", "Hiding Out", "Christopher Columbus", "Son of the Pink Panther", "The Innocent Sleep", "Phoenix Blue", "The Opium War", "Beowulf", "Baby Blue", "The Dancer Upstairs", "Shanghai Knights", "The Bone Collector", "Raindogs", "Colour Me Kubrick".