Greg Hicks

Greg Hicks is an English actor, born 27 May 1953 in Leicester.

He joined The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1976 after theatrical training at Rose Bruford College.

He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor of 2003 for his performance in "Coriolanus" at the Old Vic and was awarded the 2003 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards (Drama) for Best Shakespearian Performance in the same role.

Personal life

Greg Hicks practises Japanese butoh and Brazilian capoeira

Greg Hicks once remarked in an acting seminar- " There are the actors that jerk-off in front of the audience, actors that fuck the audience, and just a few who make love to the audience." (2006)

tage performances

* Royal Shakespeare Company:
** "Macbeth" (2004) as Macbeth
** "Hamlet" (2004) as Ghost/Player King/Gravedigger
** "Coriolanus" (2002) as Coriolanus
** "Merry Wives of Windsor" (2002) as Dr Caius
** "Julius Caesar" (2001) as Brutus

*Other:
** "Missing Persons: Four Tragedies and Roy Keane" by Colin Teevan at the Trafalgar Studios (2006) as various characters
** "Tamburlaine" at the Barbican (2005) as Tamburlaine
** "Messiah" at the Old Vic (2002) as Christ
** "An Enemy of the People" at the Arcola Theatre (2008) as Dr Thomas Stockmann

Partial flimography

*"Northanger Abbey" 1986 (TV)
*"Fortunes of War" 1987 (TV)
*"Bergerac" (TV)
*"Maigret" 1992 (TV)
*"" 2006 (TV)
*"" 2001
*"Waking the Dead" 2007 (TV)

External links

*imdb name|id=0382854|name=Greg Hicks
* [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1587390,00.html Interview with Greg Hicks in The Guardian on playing Macbeth]
* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14933-1480076,00.html The Times on Greg Hicks' career and his role as Macbeth]