Oliver Cotton
Acting

Oliver Cotton

Born 20 June 1944 · London, England, UK
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After training at the Drama Centre London, he has worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre playing in many productions including The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Oedipus, In His Own Write, Hamlet, Tamburlaine, No Man's Land, The Passion, Despatches, Half Life, The World Turned Upside Down, Julius Caesar, The Madras House, The Man With the Flower in His Mouth, Tales from the Vienna Woods, The Crucible, Piano, Troilus and Cressida, Money, Summerfolk, The Villain's Opera, Life x 3. At the Royal Court Theatre, he has appeared in The Local Stigmatic, The Duchess of Malfi, Man is Man, The Enoch Show, Erronenous Zones, The Tutor by Brecht, Lear and Bingo by Edward Bond and Piano/Forte by Terry Johnson. He was a founder member of Joint Stock appearing in their inaugural production The Speakers by Heathcote Williams. At The Royal Shakespeare Company he has played in The Marrying of Ann Leete, Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III, The Plain Dealer, Some Americans Abroad by Richard Nelson, Brand by Ibsen.

Known for

The Dark Knight Rises
Wonder Woman 1984
The Last Duel
Shanghai Knights
Killing Eve
Firefox
Midsomer Murders
Pope Joan
Beowulf
Son of the Pink Panther
Joseph
The English Game
Tales of the Underworld
The Last Duel
Wonder Woman 1984
Pylon
North v South
Gangs of Tooting Broadway
Henry IV, Part 2 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
The Dark Knight Rises
Henry IV, Part 1 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Margaret
Pope Joan
Attila the Hun
Shanghai Knights
Out of the Ashes
The Dancer Upstairs
Baby Blue
Beowulf
The Innocent Sleep
Joseph
Sharpe's Battle
Son of the Pink Panther
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Redemption
The Party
The Sicilian
Hiding Out
Eleni
Oliver Twist
Firefox
The Day Christ Died
Henry VIII
When the Actors Come
Caesar and Claretta
Sovereign's Company
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
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