Mike Gwilym (born 5 March 1949) is a Welsh actor.Born in Neath, Gwilym
is the brother of actor Robert Gwilym, son of Arthur Aubrey Remington
Gwilym and Renée Mathilde Eugénie Léonce Dupont. His parents were
the proprietors of a women's clothing chain in Wales. Mike's Belgian
maternal grandfather was the oil industrialist Edmond Jules Dupont
from Liège. Mike Gwilym's interest in acting began while at Wycliffe
Preparatory School, but he began his acting career while at university
at Oxford with the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and went on to
join the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre before becoming an associate actor
of the Royal Shakespeare CompanyHis stage debut was as 'Prince Hal' in
Henry IV, Part 1 at the Playhouse Theatre, Sheffield, UK in
1969.Gwilym joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974; his debut in
London was with that company in that year as 'Vlass' in Summerfolk, at
the Aldwych Theatre. He starred in many of their productions during
the late 1970s and early 1980s, including The Comedy of Errors, King
Lear, Troilus and Cressida, and Love's Labour's Lost. He made his
television debut in the BBC's 1975 adaptation of How Green Was My
Valley. His most high-profile role was as jockey-turned-detective Sid
Halley in The Racing Game, a six-part Yorkshire Television series
based on Dick Francis's 1965 novel Odds Against, and his film credits
include roles in Hopscotch (1980), Venom (1981), Priest of Love
(1981), A.D. (1985), and Peter the Great (1986). He subsequently
returned to playing classical roles on stage and screen. In the BBC
Television Shakespeare series, he starred in Coriolanus (as Aufidius),
in Love's Labour's Lost (as Berowne), and Pericles, Prince of Tyre in
the title role.
is the brother of actor Robert Gwilym, son of Arthur Aubrey Remington
Gwilym and Renée Mathilde Eugénie Léonce Dupont. His parents were
the proprietors of a women's clothing chain in Wales. Mike's Belgian
maternal grandfather was the oil industrialist Edmond Jules Dupont
from Liège. Mike Gwilym's interest in acting began while at Wycliffe
Preparatory School, but he began his acting career while at university
at Oxford with the Oxford University Dramatic Society, and went on to
join the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre before becoming an associate actor
of the Royal Shakespeare CompanyHis stage debut was as 'Prince Hal' in
Henry IV, Part 1 at the Playhouse Theatre, Sheffield, UK in
1969.Gwilym joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974; his debut in
London was with that company in that year as 'Vlass' in Summerfolk, at
the Aldwych Theatre. He starred in many of their productions during
the late 1970s and early 1980s, including The Comedy of Errors, King
Lear, Troilus and Cressida, and Love's Labour's Lost. He made his
television debut in the BBC's 1975 adaptation of How Green Was My
Valley. His most high-profile role was as jockey-turned-detective Sid
Halley in The Racing Game, a six-part Yorkshire Television series
based on Dick Francis's 1965 novel Odds Against, and his film credits
include roles in Hopscotch (1980), Venom (1981), Priest of Love
(1981), A.D. (1985), and Peter the Great (1986). He subsequently
returned to playing classical roles on stage and screen. In the BBC
Television Shakespeare series, he starred in Coriolanus (as Aufidius),
in Love's Labour's Lost (as Berowne), and Pericles, Prince of Tyre in
the title role.
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