Career

Trained at the Guildford School of Acting, Teale made his television debut in The Mimosa Boys in 1984. in 1985, he appeared in the Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos as "Maldak". He later appeared in Knights of God (1989), Great Expectations (1989), and Boon (1990) before being cast as Will Scarlet in the 1991 film Robin Hood.

He went on to appear in such series as Dangerfield, Ballykissangel, The Thin Blue Line and the long-running Belonging, and later Spooks and Murphy's Law. In 2005, he played a lead role in Marian, Again, in which he was the abusive husband of Harrison's eponymous character.

His film debut was in War Requiem in 1989. He later appeared as Lophakin in the 1999 adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, opposite Charlotte Rampling as Ranevskaya and Alan Bates as Gayev. He played the infamous Nazi judge Roland Freisler in Conspiracy.

In 2006 he appeared in the Torchwood episode "Countrycide". In 2006 he had a role in the HBO UK TV movie Tsunami: The Aftermath. In 2007, he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Mind's Eye. In the same year, he starred in The Last Legion. In 2011, appeared as Ser Alliser Thorne in Game of Thrones, the HBO TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin's novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, replacing at short notice Derek Halligan. He reprised this role in Season 4 and Season 5, and will once again in Season 6.

Teale won the 1997 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Torvald opposite Janet McTeer in Ibsen's A Doll's House. In 2012, he played Dai in the comedy-drama series Stella and Robert Holland, the fictional UK Foreign Secretary, in the drama series Kidnap and Ransom. He also played as a PSupt in the BBC police drama Line of Duty.

Personal life

Teale has been married twice: to Dilys Watling and then to Sylvestra Le Touzel. He has three children.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Character	Production	Notes
1991	Robin Hood	Will Scarlet
1999	The Cherry Orchard	Lophakin
2001	Conspiracy	Roland Freisler
2011	Act of Memory	Father

TV

Year	Title	Character	Production	Notes
1985	Doctor Who : "Vengeance on Varos"	Maldak	BBC
1986	David Copperfield	Ham Peggotty	BBC
1989	The Fifteen Streets			Part of a collection of small-screen epics based on the best-selling books of Catherine Cookson
1995	The Thin Blue Line	Gary	BBC	Season 1, Episode 2 "Fire and Terror"
1999	Ballykissangel	Connor Devlin	BBC	Season 5
2004	Spooks	Robert Morgan	BBC	"Frequently Asked Questions" - Series 3, Episode 9
2005	Midsomer Murders	Little Mal Kirby	ITV	"Second Sight" - Series 8, Episode 5
2006	Torchwood	Evan Sherman	BBC	"Countrycide" - Series 1, Episode 6
2007	Inspector Lewis	Nicky Turnbull	ITV	"Old School Ties" - Series 1, Episode 2
2011-2016	Game of Thrones	Alliser Thorne	HBO	19 episodes Recurring Role
2012	The Hollow Crown - Henry V	Fluellen	BBC
2012	Kidnap and Ransom	Robert Holland	ITV1
2012	Line of Duty	CSupt Phillip Osborne	BBC
2012-2013	Stella	Dai Kosh	Sky 1

[ Source: Wikipedia ]