Early life and education

Iain Glen was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), followed by the University of Aberdeen. He then trained at RADA in London, where he won the Bancroft Gold Medal.

Career

In 1990, Glen won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Silent Scream. In the same year he was cast as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark in Tom Stoppard's film adaptation of his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in The Blue Room opposite Nicole Kidman.

It was announced in 2009 that Glen would star as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO series Game of Thrones. In 2010, he played the role of Father Octavian, leader of a sect of clerics who were on a mission against the Weeping Angels in "The Time of Angels" and "Flesh and Stone", a two-episode story which formed part of the fifth season of the revived television series Doctor Who. He appeared in the second series of Downton Abbey, as Sir Richard Carlisle, a tabloid publisher who is a suitor to, and subsequently engaged to, Lady Mary.

In the 2012 BBC drama series Prisoners' Wives, he plays Paul, the husband of Francesca, whose comfortable life comes crashing down when he is imprisoned for drug trafficking. Also in 2012, he starred in a new 4-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. In 2013, he played the lead in the new play Longing.

From 6 December 2013 until early January 2014 Glen starred alongside Richard McCabe in Fortune's Fool at the Old Vic, directed by Lucy Bailey. He had been due to appear in the full run until 22 February 2014 but was forced to withdraw early to recover from illness, with his role taken by his understudy Patrick Cremin and then by William Houston who joined the cast about the same time as Glen's departure.

In 2015, Glen provided the voiceover for a Vauxhall Mokka advertisement.

Family

Glen is the younger brother of Hamish Glen, theatre director, artistic director of the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and formerly artistic director of the Dundee Repertory Theatre.

He was married to Susannah Harker from 1993 to 2004, they have one son, Finlay (born 1994). His partner is now actress Charlotte Emmerson, and they have two daughters; Mary (born September 2007) and Juliet (born 2012).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Paris by Night	Wallace Sharp
1988	Gorillas in the Mist	Brendan
1990	Mountains of the Moon	John Hanning Speke
1990	Silent Scream	Larry Winters	Silver Bear for Best Actor
1990	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Hamlet
1990	Fools of Fortune	William Quinton
1991	Adam Bede	Adam Bede	TV film
1992	30 Door Key	Joey
1993	The Young Americans	Edward Foster
1993	Missus	Father Pietro Salviati, Missus	TV film
1996	Death of a Salesman	Biff	TV film
1999	Mararía	Bertrand
2000	The Wyvern Mystery	Charles Fairfield	TV film
2000	Anchor Me	Nathan Carter	TV film
2000	Beautiful Creatures	Tony
2000	Paranoid	Stan
2001	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider	Manfred Powell
2001	Gabriel & Me	Dad
2002	Impact	Marcus Hodge	TV film
2002	Darkness	Mark
2002	The Soul Keeper	Dr. Carl Gustav Jung
2003	Song for a Raggy Boy	Brother John
2003	Carla	Daniel	TV film
2003	Spy Sorge	Richard Sorge
2004	Resident Evil: Apocalypse	Dr. Isaacs
2005	Man to Man	Alexander Auchinleck
2005	Vagabond Shoes	Alec Murray	Short film
2005	Tara Road	Danny
2005	Kingdom of Heaven	Richard Cœur de Lion
2006	Small Engine Repair	Doug
2007	The Last Legion	Orestes
2007	Starting Over	Gregor Dewhurst	TV film
2007	The Relief of Belsen	James Johnston	TV film
2007	Resident Evil: Extinction	Dr. Sam Isaacs/Tyrant
2007	Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution	Frank Ratcliffe
2008	Slapper	Red/Michael Simmons	Short film
2009	Pope Joan	Village Priest
2009	Harry Brown	S.I. Childs
2009	Into the Storm	King George VI	TV film
2009	The Case of Unfaithful Klara	Denis
2010	Jack Taylor: The Guards	Jack Taylor	TV film
2011	Jack Taylor: The Pikemen	Jack Taylor	TV film
2011	Jack Taylor: The Magdalen Martyrs	Jack Taylor	TV film
2011	The Iron Lady	Alfred Roberts
2012	Henry IV, Part II	Earl of Warwick	TV film
2013	Jack Taylor: The Priest	Jack Taylor	TV film; also co-producer
2013	Jack Taylor: The Dramatist	Jack Taylor	TV film; also co-producer
2013	Kick-Ass 2	Uncle Ralph
2014	Guy Martin's Spitfire	Narrator	Documentary
2014	Monsters Behind the Iron Curtain	Narrator	Documentary
2015	The Bad Education Movie	Pasco
2015	Jack Taylor: Shot Down	Jack Taylor	TV film
2015	Eye in the Sky	James Willett
2017	Resident Evil: The Final Chapter	Dr. Alexander Isaacs	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Taggart	Scott Adair	Episode: "Knife Edge"
1986-1989	Screen Two	Allan Innes / Sailor / Ray	3 episodes
1988	The Fear	Carl Galton	5 episodes
1992	Frankie's House	Tim Page	4 episodes
1992	Screen One	Cmdr Powell	Episode: "Black and Blue"
1997	Painted Lady	Sebastian Stafford	2 episodes
1998	Trial & Retribution	Damon Morton	2 episodes
1999	Wives and Daughters	Mr. Preston	4 episodes
2000	Glasgow Kiss	Stuart Morrison	6 episodes
2005	Kidnapped	Alan Breck	2 episodes
2008	City of Vice	John Fielding	5 episodes
2009	The Diary of Anne Frank	Otto Frank	5 episodes
2009	Law & Order: UK	Luke Slade	Episode: "Unsafe"
2010	Jack Taylor	Jack Taylor	Series 1
2010	Doctor Who	Father Octavian	2 episodes
2010	Spooks	Vaughn Edwards	8 episodes
2011	Strike Back: Project Dawn	Crawford	2 episodes
2011	Downton Abbey	Sir Richard Carlisle	6 episodes Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2011-present	Game of Thrones	Ser Jorah Mormont	40 episodes Empire Hero Award Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2012	Haven	Roland Holloway	Episode: "Real Estate"
2012-2013	Prisoners' Wives	Paul	10 episodes
2013	Borgia	Girolamo Savonarola	2 episodes
2013	Ripper Street	Colonel Madoc Faulkner	Episode: "The Weight of One Man's Heart"
2013	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Dr. David Willoughby	Episode: "Elephants Can Remember"
2013	Breathless	Inspector Ronald Mulligan	6 episodes
2014-2015	Autopsy: The Last Hours Of	Narrator	6 episodes
2014	The Red Tent	Jacob	2 episodes
2016	Cleverman	Slade

Selected theatre

• The Man Who Had All the Luck Bristol Old Vic 1990
• Hamlet, Bristol Old Vic, 1991 (Ian Charleson Award special commendation)
• Macbeth (1993) (Mayfest Award for Best Actor)
• Henry V (1995) (Evening Standard Award nomination for Best Actor)
• Martin Guerre (1996-1997) (Olivier Nomination for Best Actor in a Musical)
• The Blue Room (1998) (Olivier Nomination for Best Actor. Broadway Drama League Award for Best Actor)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (2002)
• Hedda Gabler (2005)
• The Crucible (2006) (Olivier Nomination for Best Actor)
• Scenes of a Marriage (2008)
• Wallenstein (2009, Minerva Theatre, Chichester) - title role
• Separate Tables (2009) - roles of Mr Martin and Major Pollock - Chichester Festival Theatre
• Ghosts (2010) - also directed
• Uncle Vanya, The Print Room, 2012 - title role
• Fortune's Fool, The Old Vic, 2013
• The Seagull
• Here
• King Lear
• Coriolanus
• She Stoops to Conquer
• Hapgood
• Road
• Edward II
• Small Engine Repair
• The Recruiting Officer

[ Source: Wikipedia ]