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My Take
Stephen Dillane is an actor I admire for his almost defiant lack of vanity. To most people he is Stannis Baratheon from Game of Thrones, and his clenched, joyless intensity made that doomed king unforgettable. But I value him just as much for The Hours and for his Tony-winning stage work, including playing Thomas Jefferson in John Adams. He is British, trained at Exeter, and he carries a theater actor's seriousness into everything. What I find rare is his refusal to make characters likable for the sake of it. Stannis should have been hard to watch, and Dillane made that difficulty the entire point.
Overview
Stephen John Dillane (; born 27 March 1957) is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Leonard Woolf in the 2002 film The Hours, Stannis Baratheon in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2012–2015) and Thomas Jefferson in the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008), a part which earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Stephen Dillane
- Name (Japanese)
- スティーヴン・ディレイン
- Reading
- すてぃーゔん・でぃれいん
- Born
- March 27, 1957 (age 69)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Rooster
- Origin
- Kensington, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Exeter
Awards & achievements
- 2009 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
- 2014 International Emmy Award for Best Actor
- 2010 San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble
- 2000 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
- 2000 Theatre World Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.