Английская Википедия:Anton Lesser

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Anton Lesser (born 14 February 1952) is a British actor. He is known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Thomas More in Wolf Hall, Harold Macmillan in The Crown, Clement Attlee in A United Kingdom, Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour, and Major Partagaz in Star Wars: Andor. An associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has performed numerous Shakespearean roles on stage and television.

Early life

Born in Birmingham, the son of David Lesser and his wife Amelia Cohen, Anton Lesser was educated Moseley Grammar School and the University of Liverpool, where he read architecture. He then went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and on graduation in 1977 was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year. He is of Jewish background.

Career

As an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Lesser played many of Shakespeare's great roles. In the BBC Television Shakespeare productions he was Troilus (Troilus and Cressida), Edgar (King Lear), and Feste (Twelfth Night). On stage, he has portrayed Romeo, Hamlet, Brutus, Petruchio, Richard III, and others.

Lesser is a frequent radio contributor and played the title role in the BBC Radio adaptations of the first five Marcus Didius Falco mysteries by Lindsey Davis. He has also recorded many audiobooks, including much of the work of Charles Dickens. His recording of Great Expectations won him a Talkie Award. Other books range from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Homer and Rumi to contemporary novels by Robert Harris (Fatherland) and Philip Pullman. For two months in 2013, Lesser was a regular cast member playing Robin Carrow in Ambridge Extra, a BBC Radio 4 Extra spin-off from the BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers.

In 2013, during the third season of the HBO Max series Game of Thrones, Lesser began playing the recurring role of Qyburn, an enigmatic mad scientist who served as part of the retinue of Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey). Qyburn, and Lesser's portrayal of him, were popular with fans, particularly as the series went on and the character appeared more frequently and had greater influence over the narrative. The Ringer described him as "the last curious man in Westeros" and noted that the character "refuses to seem like a MacGuffin, despite totally being one." The character returned across the remainder of the series' run until the finale in 2019; Qyburn was one of the characters who perished in the final episode, which led to many fans producing memes about his abrupt death.

In 2015, Lesser was announced as a public supporter of Chapel Lane Theatre Company based in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.

Lesser portrayed Thomas More in the BBC mini-series Wolf Hall, and received a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

In 2022, Lesser played Major Partagaz, a supporting antagonist in the Star Wars spinoff Andor. His performance of Partagaz, a ranking member of the Empire's intelligence agency, the Imperial Security Bureau, was noted by critics. Digital Spy noted that Lesser delivered dialogue on Imperial bureaucracy with "powerful coolness."

Personal life

With his wife Madeleine Adams, Lesser has two children, Harry and Lily. Lily Lesser is an actress and has acted alongside her father in Endeavour and Wolf Hall.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	The Missionary	Young Man
1985	The Assam Garden	Mr. Sutton
1997	FairyTale: A True Story	Wounded Corporal
2000	Esther Kahn	Sean
2001	Charlotte Gray	Monsieur Renech
2003	Imagining Argentina	General Guzmán
	Y Mabinogi	Teyrnon	Voice role
2005	River Queen	Major Baine
2006	Miss Potter	Harold Warne
2009	Deep Sleep		Short film
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	Lord John Carteret
	The Lady	Professor Finnis
	Flutter	Bruno
2012	The Scapegoat	Father McReady
2014	Closer to the Moon	Comrade Holban
2016	A United Kingdom	Prime Minister Attlee
	Allied	Emmanuel Lombard
	The Exception	General Falkenberg
2017	On Chesil Beach	Reverend Woollett
	Disobedience	Rav Krushka
	The Other Door	Interviewer 1	Short film
	Catherine the Great: Lovers and Sons	Peter III
2018	Seasonal Contract	The Narrator	Voice role, short film
2020	The Courier	Bertrand
	Tick Tick Tick	Narrator	Short film
	Kindred	Dr. Richards
	Gatecrash	Sid
2021	A Cold Supper Behind Harrods	Leo
	Galahad Jones	Mitch Mullins	Short film
	Benediction	Stephen Tennant (Older)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	The Mill on the Floss	Philip Waken	Miniseries, 6 episodes
	Oresteia	Orestes	Miniseries, 3 episodes
1981	Шаблон:Sortname	Trofimov	Television film
	Troilus & Cressida	Troilus	Television film
1982	Crown Court	John Peat	3 episodes
	King Lear	Edgar	Television film
1983	Good and Bad at Games	Cox	Television film
1984	Sakharov	Valery Chalidze	Television film
	Freud	Wilhelm Fliess	Miniseries, 5 episodes
1985	Anna of the Five Towns	Willie Price	Miniseries, 3 episodes
1987	Great Performances	Robber	Episode: "Monsignor Quixote"
	London Embassy	Robert Bronhouse	Miniseries, 1 episode: "Tomb with a View"
1988	Twelfth Night, or What You Will	Feste	Television film
	Screen Two	Stanley Spencer	Episode: "Stanley"
	Шаблон:Sortname	Vincenzo	Episode: "Airbase"
	A Vote for Hitler	A.L. Rowse	Television film
1989	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story	Karl	Television film
1990	ScreenPlay	Robert Cecil	Episode: "Traitors"
1991	Шаблон:Sortname	Gustav Levi	Miniseries, 8 episodes
1992	Downtown Lagos	Mungo Dawson	Miniseries, 3 episodes
1994	Guinevere	Envoy	Television film
	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Leontes	Voice role, 1 episode: "The Winter's Tale"
1995	Шаблон:Sortname	Mark Hollister	Miniseries, 3 episodes
	Bugs	Patrick Marcel	Episode: "Pulse"
	Moses	Eliav	Miniseries, 2 episodes
1996	Sharman	Galilee	Episode: "Pretend We're Dead"
	Testament: The Bible in Animation	Joseph	Voice role, 1 episode: "Joseph"
	Шаблон:Sortname	Ezra Jennings	Television film
1997	Bodyguards	Dusan Mesic	Episode: "A Choice of Evils"
	Into the Blue	Dr. John Ockleton	Television film
1998	Invasion: Earth	Lt. Charles Terrell	Miniseries, 4 episodes
	Vanity Fair	Mr. Pitt Crawley	Miniseries, 5 episodes
	The Echo	Billy Blake	Miniseries, 2 episodes
1999	Pure Wickedness	Dr. Andrew Ward	1 episode
	Trial by Fire	Brian Redwood	Television film
2000	Шаблон:Sortname	King Herod	Voice role, television film
	Safe as Houses	Mr. Dunn	Television film
	Шаблон:Sortname	Antoine Picard	Episode: "Friends & Enemies"
	Lorna Doone	Counsellor Doone	Television film
2001	Perfect Strangers	Stephen	Miniseries, 3 episodes
	Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes	Milburn	Miniseries, 1 episode: "The White Knight Stratagem"
	Uprising	Nathan Lensky	Television film
	Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story	Vidas Merlinis - Research Scientist	Miniseries, 2 episodes
	Swallow	Paul Valley	3 episodes
2002	Animated Tales of the World	The Flower of Fern	Voice role, 1 episode: "Flower of Fern, a Tale from Poland"
	Dickens	Charles Dickens	Miniseries, 3 episodes
	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	Bertilak - Green Knight	Voice role, television film
	Waking the Dead	Professor Ray Levin	Episode: "Special Relationship"
	Шаблон:Sortname	Stanley Hall	Miniseries, 2 episodes
	Foyle's War	Austin Carmichael	Episode: "Eagle Day"
2003	Eroica	Sukowaty	Television film
	Midsomer Murders	Eddie Darwin	Episode: "Birds of Prey"
	Danielle Cable: Eyewitness	Henry Batten	Television film
2004	Silent Witness	Marcus Gwilym	Episode: "Death by Water"
	Dirty Filthy Love	Charles	Television film
	Spooks	Nicholas Ashworth	Episode: "A Prayer for My Daughter"
2005	Ahead of the Class	Graham Ranger	Television film
	Шаблон:Sortname	George	Television film
	Class of '76	Martin Gibson	Miniseries, 2 episodes
	Nova	Voltaire	Episode: "E=mc²: Einstein's Big Idea"
2006	Dalziel and Pascoe	Paul Goodman	Episode: "Guardian Angel"
	Vital Signs	Dr. Lindsay	4 episodes
	New Tricks	Pete Mackintyre	Episode: "Bank Robbery"
	The Outsiders	Maurice Heston	Television film
	Шаблон:Sortname	Dennis Prior	Episode: "Endangered Species"
2008	Midsomer Murders	Reverend Wallace Stone	Episode: "Talking to the Dead"
	Шаблон:Sortname	Archbishop of Canterbury	2 episodes
	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Inspector Kelsey	Episode: "Cat Among the Pigeons"
	Einstein and Eddington	Fritz Haber	Television film
	Little Dorrit	Mr. Merdle	9 episodes
2009	Casualty 1909	Dr. Henry Head	4 episodes
2010	Holby City	Sol Caplin	Episode: "Faith No More"
	Five Daughters	Dr. Nat Cary	Miniseries, 2 episodes
	Garrow's Law	John Farmer	4 episodes
	Primeval: Webisodes	Gideon	Miniseries, 3 episodes
2011	Primeval	Gideon	Recurring role, 6 episodes
	Шаблон:Sortname	Clarence Fendley	Main role, 5 episodes
	Шаблон:Sortname	Rudolf Olden	Television film
2012	Secret State	Sir Michael Rix	Miniseries, 2 episodes
2012–2016	Шаблон:Sortname	Duke of Exeter	4 episodes
2013	Spies of Warsaw	Doctor Lapp	Miniseries, 4 episodes
	Mad Dogs	Alex	1 episode
	Ripper Street	Dr. Karl Crabbe	2 episodes
	Шаблон:Sortname	Richard Mayfield, QC	Miniseries, 3 episodes
	Atlantis	Kyros	Episode: "Pandora's Box"
2013–2019	Game of Thrones	Qyburn	Recurring role, 22 episodes
2013–2023	Endeavour	Chief Superintendent / ACC Reginald Bright	Main role, 35 episodes
2014	Father Brown	Father Ignatius	Episode: "The Mysteries of the Rosary"
	Шаблон:Sortname	Émile De Mauvoisin	Episode: "The Homecoming"
	Шаблон:Sortname	C	Miniseries, 1 episode
2015	Wolf Hall	Thomas More	Miniseries, 4 episodes
	Life in Squares	Dr. Hyslop	Miniseries, 2 episodes
	Le Donne	Salvatore	Miniseries, 5 episodes
2015–2016	Dickensian	Fagin	Main role, 15 episodes
2016	Hooten & the Lady	Hercules	Miniseries, 1 episode: "Moscow"
2017	Will	Walsingham	Episode: "The Play's the Thing"
	Шаблон:Sortname	Harold Macmillan	Main role (Season 2), 8 episodes
2019–2020	Шаблон:Sortname	Michael Eddowes	Miniseries, 6 episodes
2021	Шаблон:Sortname	Rabbi Loew	1 episode
2022	Killing Eve	Robert	Episode: "Making Dead Things Look Nice"
	Andor	Major Partagaz	7 episodes
	1899	Henry Singleton	8 episodes
2023	Better	Vernon Marley	4 episodes

Podcasts

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2020	The Sandman	Dr. John Hathaway	Voice role, 20 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2020	South of the Circle	Professor Hargreaves	Voice role

Theatre performances

• Romeo and Juliet Romeo, 1980, RSC
• Hamlet Hamlet, 1982, Donmar Warehouse, London
• Troilus and Cressida Troilus, 1981, RSC
• The Plantagenets (Henry VI, part 1–3 and Richard III) Richard III, 1988, RSC
• Two Shakespearean Actors Edwin Forrest, 1990, RSC
• Richard II Henry Bullingbrook, 1990, RSC
• The Taming of the Shrew Petruchio, 1992, RSC
• The Merry Wives of Windsor Frank Ford, 1992, RSC
• 'Art' Serge, 1997, Wyndham's Theatre, London
• Private Lives Elyot, 1999, Lyttelton Theatre, London
• Cymbeline Iachimo, 2003, RSC
• Julius Caesar Marcus Brutus, 2005, Barbican, London
• The Winter's Tale Leontes, 2006, RSC
• The Vertical Hour Oliver Lucas, 2008, Royal Court Theatre, London
• A Doll's House Dr. Rank, 2009, Donmar Warehouse, London

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2016	BAFTA TV Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Wolf Hall	Шаблон:Nom
2018	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Game of Thrones	Шаблон:Nom
			The Crown	Шаблон:Nom

External links

• Шаблон:IMDb name