Occupation Actor Name Owen Teale | Role Actor Height 1.88 m | |
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Born 20 May 1961 (age 63) ( 1961-05-20 ) Swansea, Wales Movies and TV shows Similar People |
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Owen Teale (born 20 May 1961) is a Welsh actor best known for his role as Ser Alliser Thorne in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.
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- Game of thrones season 5 alliser thorne interview owen teale
- Owen teale wins 1997 tony award for best featured actor in a play
- Career
- Personal life
- Awards
- Filmography
- References

Owen teale wins 1997 tony award for best featured actor in a play
Career

Trained at the Guildford School of Acting, Teale made his television debut in The Mimosa Boys in 1984. in 1985, he appeared in the Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos as "Maldak". His film debut was in War Requiem in 1989. He later appeared in Knights of God (1989), Great Expectations (1989), and Boon (1990) before being cast as Will Scarlet in the 1991 film Robin Hood.

He went on to appear in such series as Dangerfield, Ballykissangel, The Thin Blue Line and the long-running Belonging, and later Spooks and Murphy's Law.

He later appeared as Lophakin in the 1999 adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, opposite Charlotte Rampling as Ranevskaya and Alan Bates as Gayev. He played the infamous Nazi judge Roland Freisler in Conspiracy.

In 2005, he played a lead role in Marian, Again, in which he was the abusive husband of Harrison's eponymous character.

In 2006 he appeared in the Torchwood episode "Countrycide". Also 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, Teale appeared as Ser Alliser Thorne in Game of Thrones, the HBO TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin's novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, replacing at short notice Derek Halligan. He reprised this role in Season 4, Season 5, and Season 6.

In 2012, he played Dai in the comedy-drama series Stella and Robert Holland, the fictional UK Foreign Secretary, in the drama series Kidnap and Ransom. He also played Chief Superintendent Osborne in the BBC police drama Line of Duty.
Personal life

Teale has been married twice: to Dilys Watling and then to Sylvestra Le Touzel. He has three children.
Awards

Teale won the 1997 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Torvald opposite Janet McTeer in Ibsen's A Doll's House.