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Anton Lesser Bio

Anton Lesser is an English actor. He is particularly well known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, as Thomas.

He features More in Wolf Hall, as Harold Macmillan in The Crown, and as Chief Superintendent Bright in Endeavour.

Anton Lesser Actor Career

As an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Lesser played a considerable number of Shakespeare’s great roles, including Troilus (Troilus and Cressida), Edgar (King Lear), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (Julius Caesar), Leontes (Winter’s Tale) and Richard III.

Lesser is a frequent radio contributor and played the title role in the BBC Radio adaptations of the first five Falco mysteries by Lindsey Davis.

Anton Lesser Audiobooks

He has also recorded many audiobooks, including much of the work of Charles Dickens, and his recording of Great Expectations won him a Talkie Award.

Anton Lesser Paradise Lost

Other books range from John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Homer to contemporary novels by Robert Harris (Fatherland) and Philip Pullman. For two months in 2013, Lesser was heard as a regular cast member playing Robin Carrow in Ambridge Extra, a BBC Radio 4 Extra spin-off from the BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers.

In 2015, Lesser was announced a public supporter of Chapel Lane Theatre Company based in Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK.

Anton Lesser Wolf Hall

Lesser portrayed Thomas More in the BBC mini-series Wolf Hall and received a nomination for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

Anton Lesser Game of Thrones

With Varys out of the picture on Game of Thrones (at least as far as King’s Landing is concerned), it seems we have a usurper of the title “Master of Whisperers”: Qyburn (Anton Lesser). In the third episode of season six, we see Qyburn helping out some children, asking them questions and offering them sweets (candied plums), as Varys used to do.

These children are revealed to be the spies that Varys used to use to gather information, or what he called his “little birds.” When Cersei joins them, Qyburn tells her that they are her little birds now. She fully embraces this concept and tells him to have these little birds listening everywhere. Qyburn, it seems, is fully in her confidence. But what do we actually know of Qyburn? And what are he and Cersei really scheming about?

• He had been kicked out of the Citadel. After expressing discontent over learning about the living by studying the dead, Qyburn had begun conducting experiments on the living. He is therefore not a master.
• The Brave Companions take him in. Following his dismissal from the Citadel, Qyburn becomes one of the Brave Companions. This is a group of sellswords, which you may remember is led by Locke (Vargo Hoat in the books), the guy who chops off Jaime’s hand on season three.
• He tends to Jaime’s hand. When Jaime makes his return to King’s Landing with his bloody stump, Qyburn accompanies him and sees to the injury. He’s already starting to earn some points with the Lannisters — in spite of his former affiliation with the same group that injures Jaime in the first place.
• When Gregor is doomed, he steps up. While Grand Maester Pycelle said Gregor Clegane is doomed due to likely venom on Oberyn Martell’s spear (during the gruesome fight that ends with Gregor squishing Oberyn’s head), Qyburn takes the risk of putting himself out there and says he may be able to do something to help. Already beginning to despise Pycelle and proud of Gregor for proving Tyrion’s guilt during one of his multiple trial-by-combats, Cersei leaps at the chance to keep Gregor around and allows Qyburn to give it a go.
• He revives Gregor. It’s no longer a secret now, as he introduces the mysterious guard of Cersei’s as Gregor to the children.
• His position of power going forward is good for Cersei. So far Qyburn has proven to be quite useful to the Lannisters and certainly for Cersei. He uses dark and questionable methods, but he gets results.

Anton Lesser Endeavour

Lesser is featured on the British television series, Endeavour as Chief Superintendent Bright. He is featured alongside Roger Allam.

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Anton Lesser Age

He is 67 years old as of 2019, having been born on 14 February 1952.

Anton Lesser Height and Weight

He stands at a height of about 5ft 8 inches, while his body weight is yet to be determined.

Anton Lesser Wife

He is married to his long-time friend Madeleine Lesser who they dated for a while and decided to join the knob.

Anton Lesser Education

Lesser attended Moseley Grammar School in Moseley, Birmingham, and the University of Liverpool before going to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1977, where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year.

Anton Lesser Movies

Anton Lesser Performances

• Romeo and Juliet ‘Romeo’, 1980, RSC
• Hamlet ‘Hamlet’, 1982, Donmar Warehouse, London
• Troilus and Cressida ‘Troilus’, 1985, RSC
• The Plantagenets (Henry VI part 1-3 and Richard III) ‘Richard III’, 1988, RSC
• Two Shakespearean Actors ‘Edwin Forrest’, 1990, RSC
• Richard II ‘Henry Bullingbrook’,^[4] 1990, RSC
• The Taming of the Shrew ‘Petruchio’, 1992, RSC
• The Merry Wives of Windsor ‘Frank Ford’, 1992, RSC
• ‘Art’, ‘Serge’, 1997, Wyndham’s Theatre, London
• Private Lives ‘Elyot’, 1999,Lyttelton Theatre, London
• Cymbeline ‘Iachimo’, 2003, RSC
• Julius Caesar ‘Marcus Brutus’, 2005, Barbican, London
• The Winter’s Tale ‘Leontes’, 2006,RSC
• The Vertical Hour ‘Oliver Lucas’, 2008, Royal Court Theatre, London
• A Doll’s House ‘Dr Rank’, 2009, Donmar Warehouse, London

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