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Guy Henry is a British stage and screen actor of talent, comedic and serious. Son of an actor father, Guy Henry was educated at RADA (1979-81, in the same generation as Paul McGann).

Stage Work

National Theatre, Theatre Set Up and Cheek by Jowl

Along with work with Cheek by Jowl, Theatre Set Up and the National Theatre(including Turgenev in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia in 2002)....

Royal Shakespeare Company

....he has done long and sterling service with the Royal Shakespeare Company(2003 - Parolles, Alls Well that Ends Well; 2001 - Malvolio, Twelfth Night and King John, King John; Mosca, Volpone; 1999 - Octavius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra; 1999 - Performer, Versailles, Directions and Russayev, Yuri Gagarin; 1998 - Lord Chamberlain, Henry VII; 1997 - Cloten, Cymbeline and Dr Caius - a hilarious French accent and farce instinct, despite his quoted protestation that 'I don't do accents!', on the basis that it's all in Shakespeare's phonetic spelling of the lines, The Merry Wives of Windsor; 1996 - Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Twelfth Night; 1994 - Director , A Life in the Theatre; 1993 - Second Tempter and Second Knight, Murder in the Cathedral and Lelio, The Venetian Twins (not the same production); 1992 - Osric, Hamlet and Sir Former Trifle, The Virtuoso; 1991 - Thurio, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Poggio, Tis Pity She's a Whore and Ananias, The Alchemist). A pattern may emerge from that list - he often gets the parts demanding a tall (or, or in his case, very tall!) thin actor and/or Machiavellian parts!

Other work during and since 2005

He remains associated with the RSC - his next role is eagerly anticipated! - , although his last appearance with them was in the 2003 All's Well that Ends Well, but he was recently an acclaimed Earl of Leicester in the 2005-06 Donmar Warehouse production of Schiller's Mary Stuart, which transferred to the West End. Ironically, it was precursored by his appearance - again as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester! - in the 1986 TV drama Lady Jane.

Television appearances

He also has a long television career.

1987-2002

He took the title role in the Young Sherlock Holmes series (1987, left), along with appearances in the 1996 schools series Look and Read: Spywatch, the BBC's 1996 adaptation of Emma and the medical soaps 'Peak Practice and 'Doctors'.

2002-2006

More recently he has gone for typically conspiratorial and/or Machiavellian roles in Fields of Gold (2002) and Foyle's War (2003 - Series 2, Episode 1) (). He took the title role in Channel 4's documentary Who Killed Thomas Becket? (2004 - a 'promotion' from his role as Tempter in the RSC Murder in The Cathedral , TS Eliot's version of the same event!-see above)and was a deportement tutor and a shoemaker respectively in the BBC's The Young Visiters (Christmas 2003) and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (Christmas 2004).

2005-06 and future - Rome (HBO/BBC)

2005 was a particularly busy year for his TV appearances, including the feature-length ITV drama Colditz and the last episode of the first series of Extras. In a natural progression for one with his 'lean and hungry look'(Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 2.I), the year culminated in his Cassius(fictionalised version of Gaius Longinus Cassius) in the last two or three episodes of the first series of HBO/BBC series Rome. It seems likely to the present author that he will reprise this role in the second series (which has already been commissioned, for broadcast in 2007), at least until SPOILER! the character's noble suicide at the battle of Philippi, presumably fairly early on in the second series.

On 3rd March 2006, Sarah Kennedy announced he was then being filmed for Midsomer Murders as a lawyer.

Miscellaneous

In dry periods for other acting, he has also been seen advertising the Daily Telegraph property section, among other things!

Film

His main (if not only) film credit to date has been in Stephen Fry's 2003 film Bright Young Things, left

Trivia - Sarah Kennedy connection

He is a friend of the Radio 2 presenter Sarah Kennedy(), who goes to his plays and because of this and through letters to her from Guy himself, his father and 'the Lady Agrippa' (his mother!) gives regular updates on his appearances. This gives rise to innumerable funny quotes, such as 'doing his little plays with his actor chums down at Stratford' and (in reference to his TV appearance as Thomas Becket (see above)) 'I'm going down to Gloucester this afternoon to be murdered - what a way to spend an afternoon!' A recording of his dulcet tones announces her regular 'It's Showtime!' slot of tunes from the musicalsat about 7.12am GMT - originally he , now a whole repertoire of recordings is used, including 'I'm ready for my showtime close-up, Miss Kennedy!', 'Start the music, light the lights, it's showtime!' and 'Overture and Beginners, ready please, clear the wings, the show is about to begin - it's showtime!' He also occasionally appears live on her show, including once when he co-hosted with her in winter 2005 as part of the charity appeal Children in Need.

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