Guy Henry (actor)
British stage and screen actor. Son of an actor father, Guy Henry was educated at RADA (1979-81, in the same generation as Paul McGann).
Stage Work
National Theatre, Theatre Set Up and Cheek by Jowl
Along with work with Cheek by Jowl, Theatre Set Up and the National Theatre, and as Turgenev in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia (? at the National - not sure), ....
Royal Shakespeare Company
....he has done long and sterling service with the Royal Shakespeare Company(2003 - Parolles, Alls Well that Ends Well; 2001 - Malvolio, Twelth Night and King John, King John; Mosca, Volpone; 1999 - Octavius Caesar, Anthony and Cleopatra; 1999 - Performer, Versailles, Directions and Russayev, Yuri Gagarin; 1998 - Lord Chamberlain, Henry VII; 1997 - Cloten, Cymbeline and Dr Caius, The Merry Wives of Windsor; 1996 - Sir Andrew Aguecheek; 1994 - Director [character name], A Life in the Theatre; 1993 - Second Tempter and Second Knight, Murder in the Cathedral and Lelio, The Venetian Twins; 1992 - Osric, Hamlet and Sir Former Trifle, The Virtuoso; 1991 - Thurio, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Poggio, Tis Pity She's a Whore and Ananias, The Alchemist). As that list suggests, he often gets the parts demanding a tall (or, or in his case, very tall!) thin actor.
Other work during and since 2005
He remains associated with the RSC - his next role is eagerly anticipated! - , although his last appearance with them was in the 2003 All's Well that Ends Well, but he was recently an acclaimed Earl of Leicester in the 2005-06 Donmar Warehouse production of Schiller's Mary Stuart, which transferred to the West End. Ironically, it was precursored by his appearance - again as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester! - in the 1986 TV drama Lady Jane.
Television appearances
He also has a long television career.
1987-2002
He took the title role in the Young Sherlock Holmes series (1987, left), along with appearances in the 1996 schools series Look and Read: Spywatch, the BBC's 1996 adaptation of Emma and the medical soaps 'Peak Practice and 'Doctors'.
2002-2006
More recently he has gone for typically conspiratorial and/or Machiavellian roles in Fields of Gold (2002) and Foyle's War (2003 - Series 2, Episode 1) (Foyle's War external link). He took the title role in Channel 4's documentary Who Killed Thomas Becket? (2004 - a promotion from his RSC appearance in Murder in The Cathedral , TS Eliot's version of the same event!-see above)and was a deportement tutor and a shoemaker respectively in the BBC's The Young Visiters [sic] (Christmas 2003) and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (Christmas 2004).
2005-06 and future - Rome (HBO/BBC)
2005 was a particularly busy year for his TV appearances, including the feature-length ITV drama Colditz and the last episode of the first series of Extras. In a natural progression for one with his 'lean and hungry look'(Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 2.I), it culminated in his Cassius in the last two or three episodes of the first series of HBO/BBC series Rome. It seems likely to the present author that he will reprise his role in the second series (which has already been commissioned, for broadcast in 2007), at least until SPOILER! the character's noble suicide at the battle of Philippi, presumably fairly early on in the second series.
Miscellaneous
In dry periods for other acting, he has also been seen advertising the Daily Telegraph property section, among other things!
Film
His main film credit to date has been in Stephen Fry's 2003 film Bright Young Things- he even appeared on the top left of the poster!
Trivia - Sarah Kennedy connection
He is a friend of the Radio 2 presenter Sarah Kennedy([1] BBC website), who goes to his plays and because of this and through letters to her from Guy himself, his father and 'the Lady Agrippa' (his mother!), gives regular updates on his appearances, particularly 'doing his little plays with his actor chums down at Stratford' and (in reference to his TV appearance as Thomas Becket (see above) 'I'm going down to Gloucester [sic - it wasn't filmed at Canterbury!] this afternoon to be murdered - what a way to spend an afternoon!'! A recording of his dulcet tones announces her regular 'It's Showtime!' slot of tunes from the musicalsat about 7.12am GMT - originally he just spoke the title of the slot, now a whole repertoire of recordings is used, including 'I'm ready for my showtime close-up, Miss Kennedy!', 'Start the music, light the lights, it's showtime!' and 'Overture and Beginners, ready please, clear the wings, the show is about to begin - it's showtime!' He also occasionally appears live on her show, including once when he co-hosted with her in winter 2005 as part of the charity appeal Children in Need.
He was a guest speaker at a NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) summer seminar entitled "Shakespeare: Enacting the Text." (July 5 to August 6, 1999). Picture link
Other links
Another fan page! Many thanks to it for information used above.