Richard Dillane is an English actor. He appears in Soldier Soldier (1995), Cold Feet (2000), Space Race (2005), Tristan & Isolde (2006), Spooks (2007), Casualty (2008-2009), Oranges and Sunshine (2010), Doctor Who (2011), Argo (2012), Dead in Tombstone (2013), Wolf Hall (2015), Peaky Blinders, Poldark (2016), Giri/Haji (2019), Young Wallander (2020), The Crown, and Andor (2022-2025).
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Early life and education
Dillane is from Kent, and grew up near London with his brother Stephen (also an actor). Their mother is English and their father was born in Australia to Irish parents. He took a philosophy degree at Manchester University, and lived in Australia for ten years, working in white-water rafting as a guide, also as an actor and director.
Career
In 2020, he appears in a lead role of the Netflix series Young Wallander, based on the character Kurt Wallander created by novelist Henning Mankell. He played British intelligence agent Peter Nicholls in Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning 2012 political thriller Argo, and Merv Humphreys, husband of Margaret Humphreys (played by Emily Watson) in Jim Loach's fact-based movie Oranges and Sunshine.
