Oliver Cotton

After training at the Drama Centre London he has worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre playing in many productions including 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 Mans 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 Villains Opera Life x 3 At the Royal Court Theatre he has appeared in The Local Stigmatic The Duchess of Malfi Man is Man The Enoch Show Erronenous Zones The Tutor by Brecht Lear and Bingo by Edward Bond and PianoForte by Terry Johnson He was a founder member of Joint Stock appearing in their inaugural production The Speakers by Heathcote Williams At The Royal Shakespeare Company he has played in The Marrying of Ann Leete Henry VI Edward IV Richard III The Plain Dealer Some Americans Abroad by Richard Nelson Brand by Ibsen His West End appearances include The Homecoming by Harold Pinter Children of a Lesser God by Mark Medoff Benefactors by Michael Frayn in whose Liberty Hall he also appeared in at the Greenwich Theatre An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde Life x 3 by Yasmina Reza and Brand by Ibsen He has also played the title role in King Lear at the Southwark Playhouse and Malvolio in Shakespeares Globes allmale production of Twelfth Night His many TV appearances have included The Borgias Cesare Borgia David Copperfield The Year of the French The Play on One Redemption Poirot The Camomile Lawn Westbeach Zorro Sharpes Battle Rhodes All Quiet on the Preston Front Innocents Judge John Deed Inspector Lynley Waking the Dead MIT Murder Investigation Team Beastly Games Sensitive Skin Midsomer Murders Hotel Babylon His films include 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