James Dominic Frain is an English stage and screen actor. His best
known television roles include Thomas Cromwell in the Showtime/CBC
historical drama The Tudors (2007â€"2009), Franklin Mott in the HBO
drama True Blood (2010), Warwick the Kingmaker in the BBC drama serial
The White Queen (2013), John Sumner in the Sky/Canal+ crime drama The
Tunnel (2013), Ferdinand Chevalier in the BBC/Space sci-fi thriller
Orphan Black (2015â€"2017), Theo Galavan/Azrael in Fox's Gotham
(2015â€"2016), and Sarek in Star Trek Discovery (2017â€"present). He
also played leading roles in the BBC dramas Armadillo (2001), The
Buccaneers (1995) and The Mill on the Floss (1997).In film, he is best
known for playing Daniel Barenboim and à lvaro de la Quadra in the
biographical dramas Hilary and Jackie and Elizabeth, respectively
(both 1998), Bassianus in the Shakespeare adaptation Titus (1999), and
Gérard de Villefort in the historical drama The Count of Monte Cristo
(2002).Frain was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, and brought
up in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, the eldest of eight children of a
teacher mother and a stockbroker father. He was educated at Newport
Free Grammar School, studied Drama and Film at the University of East
Anglia and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and
Drama in London.
known television roles include Thomas Cromwell in the Showtime/CBC
historical drama The Tudors (2007â€"2009), Franklin Mott in the HBO
drama True Blood (2010), Warwick the Kingmaker in the BBC drama serial
The White Queen (2013), John Sumner in the Sky/Canal+ crime drama The
Tunnel (2013), Ferdinand Chevalier in the BBC/Space sci-fi thriller
Orphan Black (2015â€"2017), Theo Galavan/Azrael in Fox's Gotham
(2015â€"2016), and Sarek in Star Trek Discovery (2017â€"present). He
also played leading roles in the BBC dramas Armadillo (2001), The
Buccaneers (1995) and The Mill on the Floss (1997).In film, he is best
known for playing Daniel Barenboim and à lvaro de la Quadra in the
biographical dramas Hilary and Jackie and Elizabeth, respectively
(both 1998), Bassianus in the Shakespeare adaptation Titus (1999), and
Gérard de Villefort in the historical drama The Count of Monte Cristo
(2002).Frain was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, and brought
up in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, the eldest of eight children of a
teacher mother and a stockbroker father. He was educated at Newport
Free Grammar School, studied Drama and Film at the University of East
Anglia and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and
Drama in London.
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