Gary Oliver
Born (1966-11-19) 19 November 1966
Northampton, England
OccupationActor
Years active1995–present

Gary Oliver (born 19 November 1966) is an English actor of the stage, television, and film. He known for his roles in guest starring roles in Game of Thrones, New Tricks and Atlantis.

Career

Oliver is principally active as a stage actor. In 1990 he performed in Carlos Muñiz's The Inkwell at the Battersea Arts Centre.[1] In 1991 he appeared in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at The New Hereford Theatre.[2] In 1994 he performed in Max Frisch's The Fire Raisers with Arts Threshold, Gloucester Terrace.[3] In 1995 he starred in Brad Fraser's Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.[4]

Oliver has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).[5] In 1997 he toured with the RSC to perform the role of Balthazar in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival under the direction of Tim Supple.[5] In 1998 he starred in the premiere of Andrew Payne's two man one act play then what? at The Old Red Lion, Islington.[6] In 1999 he starred as Louis Ironson in Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Manchester Central Library Theatre with Peter Polycarpou as Roy Cohn and Richard Cant as Prior.[7] That same year he starred as Gary in Lynne Harvey's Something for Grownups at the Drayton Court Theatre.[8] In 2000 he performed in the Royal National Theatre's production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.[9]

After appearing in the final scene of the HBO series Game of Thrones in season 4, Oliver reprised his role as Ternesio Terys in season 5.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1995 Soldier Soldier Sgt. Major Fellner TV series; 1 episode
1996 Heartbeat Mihail TV series; 1 episode
1999 Kavanagh QC Jack Wilkle TV series; 1 episode
1999, 2002 The Bill Dean / Keith Canning TV series; 2 episodes
2007 Doctors Patrick Tansley TV series; 1 episode
2008 Merlin Gregory TV series; 2 episodes
2013 New Tricks Tony Otway TV series; 1 episode
2013–2014 Atlantis Alytarch TV series; 2 episodes
2013 The Bible Abraham TV series; 1 episode
2014–2015 Game of Thrones Ternesio Terys TV series; 2 episodes
2017 Father Brown Frank Hammond TV series/Episode 5.13 "The Tanganyika Green"
Bitter Harvest Joseph Stalin Feature film
2018 Benidorm Franco 2 episodes (series 10, episodes 5 and 6)
2019 Jesus: His Life King Herod the Great TV series; 1 episode
2020 Young Wallander Commissioner TV series; 1 episode

References

  1. ↑ "THEATRE WEEK: The Inkwell". The Stage and Television Today (5702): 9. 26 July 1990.
  2. ↑ "THEATRE WEEK: Romeo and Juliet". The Stage and Television Today (5729): 10. 31 January 1991.
  3. ↑ "THEATRE WEEK: The Fire Raisers". The Stage and Television Today (5909): 9. 14 July 1994.
  4. ↑ Natale Angasey (1 June 1995). "Theatre Reviews: Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love". The Stage (5955): 13.
  5. 1 2 Harvey, Dennis (16 June 1997). "Legit: ROAD - THE COMEDY OF ERRORS". Variety. Vol. 367, no. 7. pp. 42, 46.
  6. ↑ Dowell, Ben (15 January 1998). "Review: then what? / SQUASH". The Stage (6092): 12.
  7. ↑ Anglesey, Natalie (7 October 1999). "Review: Angels in America". The Stage (6182): 14.
  8. ↑ Barttett, Chris (2 December 1999). "Theatre Reviews: Something for the Grownups". The Stage (6190): 12.
  9. ↑ Wolf, Matt (2 October 2000). "Legit Reviews: ABROAD - THE CHERRY ORCHARD". Variety. 380 (7): 34–35.


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