OLIVER COTTON
ACTING
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.
- Joseph1995
- Beowulf1999
- Shanghai Knights2003
- Son of the Pink Panther1993
- Oliver Twist1982
- Out of the Ashes2003
- The Dark Knight Rises2012
- Pope Joan2009
- The Dancer Upstairs2002
- The Innocent Sleep1996
- Eleni1985
- Colour Me Kubrick2005
- Firefox1982
- Hiding Out1987
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush1968
- Sharpe's Battle1995
- Wonder Woman 19842020
- The Last Duel2021
- Bergerac1981
- Heartbeat1992
- Robin of Sherwood1984
- Space: 19991975
- Midsomer Murders1997
- Lovejoy1986
- The Camomile Lawn1992
- New Tricks2004
- The Borgias1981
- Killing Eve2018
- Waking the Dead2001
- Ripper Street2012
- Public Eye1965
- Money2010