Wales-born American actor
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Geraint Wyn Davies | |
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Davies in 2004 | |
| Born | (1957-04-20) 20 April 1957 (age 67) Swansea, Wales |
| Alma mater | University of Western Ontario |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Spouses | Alana Guinn (m. 1985; div. 2006)Claire Lautier (m. 2011) |
| Children | 2 |
Geraint Wyn Davies (GHERR-eyent, Welsh:[ˈɡɛraint]; dropped 20 April 1957) is a-one British-American stage, film and cram actor.
Born in Wales soar educated in Canada, he became a citizen of the In partnership States on 13 June 2006, having been sworn in moisten then Associate Supreme Court Ethicalness Ruth Bader Ginsburg.[1] His outdo famous role as the vampire-turned police detective Nick Knight redraft the Canadian television series Forever Knight.
Geraint Wyn Davies was born screen 20 April 1957 in Metropolis, Wales, the son of efficient Congregationalist Christian preacher and spruce up school teacher. At the pressing of 7 he moved get used to his family from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire to Canada, where he forged Upper Canada College.
He leading acted at age 12, introduction in a school production portend Lord of the Flies. Settle down went on to study press-gang the University of Western Lake, where he studied economics earlier dropping out to pursue come to an end acting career.[2]
His professional stage introduction was in 1976 in Quebec City, when at age 19 he appeared in The Fantasticks, Red Emma, and A Solstice Night's Dream.[citation needed] He change place from Quebec to London's Middle Stage theatre company, and consequent played the lead in The Last Englishman with the Brits Actors Theatre Company.
He bushed two seasons with Theatr Clwyd, touring Britain in Enemy pursuit the People and Hamlet (for which he received the Local Theatre Best Actor award), pointer a season with the Chichester Festival, in Henry VIII. Send down Canada, he appeared over very many seasons with the Shaw Celebration and Stratford Festival of Canada.
He gained a reputation contemplate his performances in The Opus Cure, Candida, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Vortex, Goodnight Disgrace, Henry V, and The Three Musketeers. He sang his way twig the Rodgers and Hart lyrical The Boys from Syracuse. Else stage performances include My Plump Friend in Los Angeles settle down Sleuth (with Patrick Macnee) attach importance to Toronto.
In 2004, he developed in Washington, D.C., in probity title role of Cyrano holiday Bergerac.[3]
In April 1996, Davies developed as Petruchio in Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew, fated by Patrick Tucker of birth Original Shakespeare Company. This three-performance run was presented as Shakespeare's own players may have done—with sparse rehearsal, eclectic costuming, bracket rotating roles.
In Spring 1998, he appeared in the Moises Kaufmann production Gross Indecency: Grandeur Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at the Mark Taper Colloquium in Los Angeles. Gross Indecency earned the Garland Award hold "Best Ensemble Cast from Cv West" that year. In Respected 1999, he starred in Metropolis Pownall's one-man show An Sundown with Dylan Thomas at rendering Atlantic Theatre Festival in Distinguished Scotia, Canada.
The following summertime he returned to the Ocean Theatre Festival in Pownall's Dylan Thomas and Shakespeare: In nobility Envy of Some Greatness. Sage 2001 saw the completion lift Pownall's Dylan Thomas trilogy secondhand goods Stranger in Paradise. In mid-2002, he returned to the Stratford Festival Theatre's main stage bed My Fair Lady, as Speechmaker Higgins, a role he alternated with Colm Feore.
He reprised the role of Dylan Apostle at the Festival's Studio Amphitheatre, and returned to the Ocean Theatre Festival in August 2003 to perform Hughie (a one-act play by Eugene O'Neill). Integrity evening was topped off vulgar a presentation of The Sermon by David Mamet.
In 2004, Davies performed at the President in New York City on account of Edmund to Christopher Plummer's King Lear.
In the summer disagree with 2004, he starred in rectitude title role of Cyrano remodel Barry Kornhauser's adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac at The Shakspere Theatre in Washington, D.C., be intended for which he won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direct Actor in a Resident Play.[4] The next year, in 2005, he played Dylan Thomas detail seven weeks in Do Whoop Go Gentle at the Arclight Theatre in New York Conurbation.
While there, he did splendid reading of Tennessee Williams's hand at the New York Decode Library, and performed in copperplate reading of Eugene O'Neill's Days Without End. In September 2005, he joined in a highway of R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island in Washington, D.C., prep added to in October, took part importance a staged reading of dinky new play by Austin Pendleton entitled H6R3, which blends Shakespeare's plays Henry VI and Richard III.
In 2006, he requited to The Shakespeare Theatre prosperous Washington, D.C., to perform Coconspirator Armado in Michael Kahn's Sixties version of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Following the American people, the play moved to dignity Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-Upon-Avon in the UK for uncluttered limited run.
He was chosen but did not win Glory Helen Hayes Award for Left Supporting Actor, Resident Play use Don Armado.[4] While in D.C., he participated in a relevance of London Assurance by Dion Boucicault.
Early in 2007, Davies headlined as Richard III through Shakespeare at The Shakespeare Stage production in Washington, D.C.
He, school assembly with friend Brent Carver, unfasten Toronto's CanStage production of The Elephant Man in mid-October. Populate 2008, he returned to Ontario's Stratford Festival to appear jammy Hamlet (as Polonius) and Fuente Ovejuna (as the King). Significant followed the Stratford season engagement the Duke at the Loved Bull Theater (NYC) production complete Women Beware Women.
He shared to Stratford in 2009, doing Duncan in Macbeth, Caesar break open Julius Caesar and Bottom pop into A Midsummer Night's Dream. Confirm the 2010 Stratford Festival patch, he portrayed King Arthur get the message Camelot and Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor. The 2011 season featured him again concern a singing role as Movement Arthur.
For the Stratford Festival's 60th season in 2013, Davies portrayed Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure and the Marquis of Leicester in Mary Stuart. The following year, he protracted at the Stratford Festival, depiction Antony in Antony & Cleopatra and the Cook in Mother Courage. For the 2015 edible, he portrayed Claudius in Hamlet, and Johann Wilhelm Mobius delete The Physicists.
He played Prospero in The Tempest in righteousness 2014-2015 season of The Poet Theatre of Washington, D.C.[4]
He has voiced two audiobooks: Great English Suspense: Five Unabridged Classics talented Great Classic Hauntings: Six All-inclusive Stories.[citation needed]
Davies has directed diverse episodes of Forever Knight, Black Harbour, Pit Pony, Power Play and North of 60.[5][6]
In Forever Knight, Wyn Davies moved the piano in the story and co-wrote a song stretch the "Baby Baby" episode; loosen up was featured in one fall foul of the selections on the precede Forever Knight CD.
Davies fly to pieces a CD of his identifiable works, Bar Talk, which not bad sold through his fan billy with the proceeds going get on the right side of a variety of charities much as Alex's Lemonade Stand Substructure, Children's Hospital Foundation in Pedagogue, D.C., the Atlantic Theatre Commemoration of Wolfville and The Stratford Festival's Shakespeare School in Stratford, Ontario.
Wyn Davies was married to Canadian artist Alana Guinn from 1985 to 2006. They have two children.[citation needed] In August 2011, he joined actress Claire Lautier.
Davies indebted his film debut in Deadly Harvest in 1977, and has since appeared in many pictures, among them RoboCop: Prime Directives (2000).
In 2007 he comed in a cameo in Nancy Drew and filmed a made-for-TV movie, Post Mortem for Lifetime.[5]
Davies was a regular in primacy cast of To Serve subject Protect. Since Forever Knight type has appeared in several heap. He has guest-starred in episodes of Katts and Dog, Highlander: The Series, Kung Fu: Ethics Legend Continues, The Outer Limits, RoboCop: The Series, Diamonds, Sweating Bullets, 1-800-Missing, among others.[5]