Biography
Stephen Dillane (born 30 November 1956) is an English actor. He won a Tony Award for his lead performance in Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Outrun
2024
as Andrew
Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a dec...

The Gold Machine
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Inspired by the writings of Iain Sinclair, a father and daughter trace the footsteps of their colonialist ancestor to the Peruvian jungle. Their journ...

Boxing Day
2021
as Richard
Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Carib...

The Man in the Hat
2020
as The Damp Man
The Man In The Hat sets off from Marseilles in a small Fiat 500. On the seat beside him is a framed photograph of an unknown woman. Behind him is a 2C...

The Professor and the Madman
2019
as Dr. Richard Brayne
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 1...

Outlaw King
2018
as King Edward I of England
Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.

Antigone
2018
Dean’s work is characterized by a sense of history, time and place, light quality, and the essence of the film itself. In line with these themes, the ...

His Picture In Little
2018
A portrait of three actors of different generations who have all portrayed Hamlet: David Warner, Stephen Dillane and Ben Whishaw.

Darkest Hour
2017
as Viscount Halifax
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it c...

Mary Shelley
2017
as William Godwin
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern...
Event for a Stage
2015
as Actor
"'Event for a Stage’ is a 16mm film I made in 2015 with the actor Stephen Dillane. I normally project the work as film inside galleries and museums, a...

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015
as Stannis Baratheon
The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to de...

Papadopoulos & Sons
2012
as Harry Papadopoulos
Following his ruin in the latest banking crisis, a self-made millionaire reluctantly re-unites with his estranged freewheeling brother to re-open the ...

Zero Dark Thirty
2012
as National Security Advisor
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the ...

Twenty8K
2012
as DCI Stone
A teenage boy is gunned down outside a nightclub and a young girl dies in a hit and run in two seemingly unrelated deaths. Deeva Jani, returns home to...

Murder: Joint Enterprise
2012
as Raglin
A woman lies dead in a Nottingham flat, her terrified sister barricaded in the bathroom. At 2am a young man in a bloodstained shirt is pulled over for...

Perfect Sense
2011
as Stephen
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a ...

44 Inch Chest
2009
as Mal
Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.

Storm
2009
as Keith Haywood
Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her m...

The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
2008
as Anthony Hurndall
After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They expe...

God on Trial
2008
as Schmidt
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.

Red Mist
2008
as Dr. Harris
A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a power...

Fugitive Pieces
2008
as Jakob Beer
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

Savage Grace
2007
as Brooks Baekeland
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely so...

Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
as Glen Foy
Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - pe...

Klimt
2006
as Secretary
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th cent...

The Greatest Game Ever Played
2005
as Harry Vardon
A biopic of 20-year-old Francis Ouimet who defeated his golfing idol and 1900 US Open Champion, Harry Vardon.

Goal!
2005
as Glen Foy
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los...

Nine Lives
2005
as Martin
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Haven
2004
as Mr. Allen
During a weekend, two shady businessmen flee to the Cayman Islands to avoid federal prosecution. But their escape ignites a chain reaction that leads ...

King Arthur
2004
as Merlin
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy ...

The Gathering
2003
as Simon Kirkman
Itinerant traveler Cassie Grant comes out of a car accident in Glastonbury, England, with partial memory loss. The deeply regretful driver allows her ...

The Hours
2002
as Leonard Woolf
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings a...

The Truth About Charlie
2002
as Charlie Lambert
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return ...

Spy Game
2001
as Charles Harker
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in B...

The Parole Officer
2001
as Inspector Burton
A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law ab...

Love & Rage
2000
as Dr. Coly
Agnes MacDonnell, a strong and self-confident Englishwoman, owns a large estate on an island off the west coast of Ireland. When she begins a passiona...

The Darkest Light
2000
as Tom
Farm life in the Yorkshire Dales isn't easy at the best of times, but things are exceptionally tough for Tom and Sue. Their eight-year-old son has leu...

Ordinary Decent Criminal
2000
as Noel Quigley
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determin...

Firelight
1998
as Charles Godwin
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, ...

Déjà Vu
1998
as Sean
L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.

Welcome to Sarajevo
1997
as Michael Henderson
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks wh...

Two If by Sea
1996
as Evan Marsh
Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which invol...

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
1995
as Mr. Blackmore
D.H, Lawrence's early play about a married woman who wishes her husband dead after falling in love with another man comes to the screen in this adapta...

Power and Lovers
1994
as Antonio
Two brothers start to bicker and battle when Nick, an aggressive businessman, finds himself thwarted by a group of scientists, headed by his brother T...

Hostages
1992
as Chris Pearson
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.

Frankie's House
1992
In 1964 in Laos, young Tim Page discovers his vocation as a photojournalist and is given a job, a camera, and a trip to Vietnam. There, he learns the ...

Heading Home
1991
as Leonard Meopham
The story of a woman who falls in love with two very different men in post World War II London.

Mel Gibson Goes Back to School
1991
as Horatio (archive footage)
Mel Gibson teaches Hamlet to a group of high school drama students.

Hamlet
1990
as Horatio
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

The Yellow Wallpaper
1989
A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband.

An Affair in Mind
1988
as Gray Harston
A young novelist falls for a married blond beauty. She's too afraid to leave her thuggish husband and the idea of "accidental" death comes up. The wri...

The Secret Garden
1987
as Captain Lennox
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country ma...

Business as Usual
1987
as Mr. Dunlop (as Stephen Dillon)
After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual...

Shift Work
1986
as George
It's Julie's last night as a mini-cab driver and it's a night full of adventures she'll never forget.

Frankie and Johnnie
1986
as Reporter at Press Conference
When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. But Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has ...