Lloyd Owen

 ( 1966 Births ) 

Marcus Richard Lloyd Owen (born 14 April 1966) is a British actor. Despite being born in London, he considers himself Welsh due to both his parents being from Wales and only having moved to London for purposes of professional progression. Trained at the National Youth Theatre and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, he is known for portraying Indiana Jones's father Professor Dr. Henry Jones Sr. in George Lucas's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles between 1992 and 1993 and Paul Bowman-MacDonald in the BBC Scotland series Monarch of the Glen from 2002 to 2005. He starred as solicitor William Heelis in the film Miss Potter (2006) and commander Nathan Walker in Apollo 18 (2011). He plays the role of Elendil in the Amazon Prime fantasy series (2022–present).

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Early life Owen was born on 14 April 1966 at the Charing Cross Hospital in Westminster, London.. He was brought up in London, although both of his parents were Welsh people – his father, actor Glyn Owen (1928–2004), was from Caernarfon, while his mother, actress Patricia Mort, was from Swansea. Owen considers himself Welsh. His sister is the actress Cathy Owen (b. 1968).

Owen said he grew up around "a mob of entertaining, troublesome, fascinating" actors involved in challenging the Lord Chamberlain during some of the most exciting days of a very controversial Royal Court Theatre. When he was at Highgate School,As an alumnus of Highgate School, Owen is a member of the Old Cholmeleian Society and Old Cholmeleian Sports Club, both named after the school's founder Sir Roger Cholmeley: . because his father was an actor, his teachers thought that he should be able to act, too. However, at first he was not interested. "I was always made to read plays at school but I never wanted to. Then I was made to take part in a school play and I didn't want to do that either but I started to get approval for my acting. I was reasonably academic, good at sport, but somehow with the acting, people said 'that was fantastic'. So I thought, 'maybe that's what I'll do then".."

At 16, Owen went straight from school to the National Youth Theatre, and subsequently received formal training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, after which he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. While at RADA he managed to get an acting job and an Equity card, but when he told the principal he needed a term off, the request was denied and he was expelled from the Academy after just a year. Fortunately, Owen landed a job with Cheek by Jowl and followed the theatre company on tour around the world performing Shakespeare plays. Owen has said that he wished he had gone to university, and that he had been "in too much of a rush"..

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Career Owen's breakthrough role was Professor Henry Jones Sr., father of Indiana Jones, in eight episodes of the American TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in 1992 and 1993. In real life, Owen is six months younger than Sean Patrick Flannery, who played the adolescent/young adult Indiana Jones in the series. Owen was heavily made up to look like a man in his late-40s when he filmed his scenes with Flannery. Subsequently, he portrayed the lead role of Paul Bowman-MacDonald in 28 episodes of the popular BBC Scotland series Monarch of the Glen between 2002 and 2005.See . He also played Professor Jon Ford in the BBC Northern Ireland series The Innocence Project (2006–2007).A BBC spokeswoman said the remaining episodes will "definitely be shown", but that it was not yet known when: . In 2014, Owen appeared in the second season of The CW's supernatural show The Originals as Ansel, Klaus's father. He also had a recurring role of the U.S. President Farrell in 2015 comedy series You, Me and the Apocalypse. In 2019, he played Dominic Swanson in the ITV drama Cleaning Up. In 2020, it was announced that Owen joined the cast of the Amazon Prime Video fantasy series (2022), where he plays the role of Elendil.

Owen's film career has included appearances in short films, and supporting roles in The Republic of Love (2003) (as Peter),. which was based on a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, and in Miss Potter (2006) (as a solicitor named William Heelis who married children's author Beatrix Potter).. In 2011, he starred in sci-fi film Apollo 18 as Commander Nathan "Nate" Walker. He also played officer John Clive in the 2018 Hindi film Thugs of Hindostan.

However, Owen's first love has always been the theatre. Early in his professional career he was involved in the Cheek by Jowl productions of Philoctetes and the Shakespeare plays Macbeth, The Tempest and Twelfth Night. Owen's break on stage was playing Nick in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Howard Davies, at the Almeida Theatre in London in 1996. Owen studied the play during his A-levels, and it is his favourite play. Other highlights of his stage career include playing Dan in Closer by Patrick Marber in 1998 and George in The York Realist by Peter Gill in 2002. Critics praised his performance in the latter play as "astonishing in its power, throttled fury and sadness"Nicholas de Jongh in the Evening Standard (9 January 2002): see Lloyd Owen at Actors in Good Company. Retrieved 27 June 2007. and "superb, richly voiced",Stephen Brown in The Times Literary Supplement (25 January 2002): Lloyd Owen at Actors in Good Company. Retrieved 27 June 2007. and called him "a fast-rising star".

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Personal life Owen is married to actress and artist Juliette Mole. Together they have two children, Maxim (b. 1990) and Mimi (b. 1998).

Owen speaks fluent French language. Lloyd Owen at the website of Hamilton Hodell, his agent . Retrieved 27 June 2007.

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Filmography

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Film

Confused	Johnny	Short film

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Television

Science Fiction	Lord Byron	Series 2, episode 6: "The Story of Frankenstein"
All in the Game	Darren Matthews
	Professor Henry Jones, Sr.	Television film
Hearts and Bones	James Norton
Dead Gorgeous	Vic	Television film
Wire in the Blood	Spencer Watts	2 episodes: "Justice Painted Blind"
Inside the Box	Kenneth Donnegan	Television film
You, Me and the Apocalypse	U.S. President Farrell	6 episodes
Der Beobachter	Tom Ward	Television film
Silent Witness	Det Supt Mitchell	2 episodes: "Life Licence"

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Stage

The Passport		Young Vic
The Parquet Floor		Young Vic
Philoctetes	Sailor	Cheek by Jowl / Donmar Warehouse
Grab the Dog		Royal National Theatre / The Studio
Julius Caesar	Brutus	Young Vic

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Radio

The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold	Valére	L.A. Theatre Works
England, Their England	Pendragon	BBC Radio 4
Leave It to Psmith	Sebastian Beach	BBC Radio 4

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Video games

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External links

• Lloyd Owen at the Film & TV Database of the British Film Institute

Categories: 1966 Births, Living People, 20th-century English Actors, 21st-century English Actors, British Film Actors, English Stage Actors, British Television Actors, English Video Game Actors, English Voice Actors, English People Of Welsh Descent, People Educated At Highgate School, Actors From The City Of Westminster, National Youth Theatre Members, Royal Shakespeare Company Members, Alumni Of The Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art, Male Actors From London

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