Oliver Cotton

Known for ActingBorn 1944-06-20 (age 81)London, England, UK

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 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. 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 Piano/Forte 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 Shakespeare's Globe's all-male 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, 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. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Henry IV, Part 2 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

Henry IV, Part 1 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

The Borgias

Joseph

Killing Eve

Sharpe

The Dark Knight Rises

Public Eye

The Last Duel

The English Game

Ripper Street

Midsomer Murders

Sensitive Skin

Robin of Sherwood

New Tricks

Strange Report

Hotel Babylon

Lovejoy

Waking the Dead

Sovereign's Company

The Musketeers

Heartbeat

Murder Investigation Team

Redemption

Pope Joan

Sharpe's Battle

Space: 1999

BBC2 Play of the Week

Callan

Attila the Hun

Wonder Woman 1984

Oliver Twist

Baby Blue

Bergerac

Henry VIII

Space Precinct

Out of the Ashes

Shanghai Knights

The Dancer Upstairs

The Day Christ Died

Gangs of Tooting Broadway

Firefox

Hannay

The Play on One

Eleni

Margaret

Colour Me Kubrick

(All Quiet on the) Preston Front