Oliver Cotton

Après une formation au Drama Centre London, Oliver Cotton a travaillé intensément au Royal National Theatre, participant à de nombreuses productions dont 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. Au Royal Court Theatre, il est apparu dans The Local Stigmatic, The Duchess of Malfi, Man is Man, The Enoch Show, Erronenous Zones, The Tutor de Brecht, Lear et Bingo d'Edward Bond, et Piano/Forte de Terry Johnson. Il a été membre fondateur de Joint Stock, apparaissant dans leur production inaugurale The Speakers de Heathcote Williams. À la Royal Shakespeare Company, il a joué dans The Marrying of Ann Leete, Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III, The Plain Dealer, Some Americans Abroad de Richard Nelson, Brand d'Ibsen. Ses apparitions dans le West End incluent The Homecoming de Harold Pinter, Children of a Lesser God de Mark Medoff, Benefactors de Michael Frayn (dans Liberty Hall duquel il a également joué au Greenwich Theatre), An Ideal Husband d'Oscar Wilde, Life x 3 de Yasmina Reza, et Brand d'Ibsen. Il a également joué le rôle-titre dans King Lear au Southwark Playhouse et Malvolio dans la production entièrement masculine de Twelfth Night au Shakespeare's Globe. Ses nombreuses apparitions télévisées incluent The Borgias (César 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. Ses films incluent 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.