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Owen Teale (born 20 May 1961) is a Welsh character actor having appeared in many films, including Robin Hood (1991), The Hawk (1993), King Arthur (2004), The Last Legion (2007), Tolkien (2019), and Dream Horse (2020). On television, he has appeared in Doctor Who (1985), David Copperfield (1986), The Thin Blue Line (1995), Ballykissangel (1999), Line of Duty (2012), Stella (2012–2013), A Discovery of Witches (2018–2022), and The Rig (2023), and "Sandokan The Pirate Prince (Netflix Series)" (2026).
Teale is best known for his role as Alliser Thorne in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones (2011–2016). In 1997, Teale won a Tony Award for his performance in a Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.
He went on to appear in such series as Dangerfield, Ballykissangel, The Thin Blue Line and the long-running Belonging, and later Spooks and Murphy's Law.
He later appeared as Lophakin in the 1999 adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, opposite Charlotte Rampling as Ranevskaya and Alan Bates as Gayev. He played the infamous Nazi judge Roland Freisler in Conspiracy. He also had parts In Midsomer Murders and Lewis.
In 2005, he played a lead role in Marian, Again, in which he was the abusive husband of Kelly Harrison's eponymous character. He also did voice over narration for "Tales from the Green Valley", one of several farm series he has done for the BBC.
In 2006, he appeared in the Torchwood episode "Countrycide". Also in 2006 he had a role in the HBO UK TV movie . In 2007, he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio drama The Mind's Eye. In the same year, he starred in The Last Legion alongside Ben Kingsley and Colin Firth, and was shot on location in Morocco, Tunisia and Slovakia.
In 2011, Teale appeared as Alliser Thorne in Game of Thrones, the HBO TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin's novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, replacing at short notice Derek Halligan. Profile, winteriscoming.net; accessed 18 March 2015. He reprised this role in Season 4, Season 5, and Season 6.
In 2012, he played Dai in the comedy-drama series Stella, and Robert Holland, the fictional UK Foreign Secretary, in the drama series Kidnap and Ransom. He also played Chief Constable Osborne in the BBC police drama Line of Duty. Between 2018 and 2022 he played Peter Knox in A Discovery of Witches, a series based on the book of the same name by Deborah Harkness.
In 2020, he starred opposite Toni Collette and Damian Lewis in the Wales based sports comedy-drama film Dream Horse.
In 2023, Teale starred as Lars Hutton, causing problems on the Kinloch Bravo oil rig in The Rig, in a cast that included Iain Glen, Emily Hampshire, Mark Addy, and Martin Compston.
He has also worked as a voiceover artist for television advertisements.
| Derek Jarman |
| John Irvin |
| David Hayman |
| Rafi Bukai |
| Michael Cacoyannis |
| Mike Binder |
| Andrew Gillman |
| Antoine Fuqua |
| Doug Lefler |
| Mary McGuckian |
| Åsa Faringer & Ulf Hultberg |
| Josef Rusnak |
| Marc Evans |
| John Jencks |
| Konstantinos Frangopoulos |
| Dome Karukoski |
| Euros Lyn |
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| Part of a collection of small-screen epics based on the best-selling books of Catherine Cookson |
| Season 1, Episode 2 "Fire and Terror" |
| "Scars" series 3, Episode 4 |
| Season 5 |
| "Frequently Asked Questions" – Series 3, Episode 9 |
| "Second Sight" – Series 8, Episode 5 |
| Episode: "Murder in Rome" |
| BBC2 |
| "Countrycide" – Series 1, Episode 6 |
| "Old School Ties" – Series 1, Episode 3 |
| Recurring role, 19 episodes |
| "Henry V" |
| 3 episodes |
| BBC |
| 20 episodes |
| 6 episodes |
| Professor Havensling |
| Recurring role |
| 18 episodes |
| 3 Part Mini-Series |
| BBC One |
| 12 episodes |
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| 1996 | A Doll's House | Torvald | |
| 2003 | The Dance of Death | Kurt | |
| 2008 | Macbeth | Macbeth | |
| 2013 | Passion Play | James | |
| 2014 | Under Milk Wood | Narrator | |
| 2015 | The Broken Heart | BASSANES | |
| 2016 | No Man's Land | Briggs | |
| 2016 | Gaslight | Jack Manningham | |
| 2022 | A Christmas Carol | Ebenezer Scrooge | |
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