GUY HENRY, FROM SHERLOCK HOLMES TO HARRY POTTER

Today, The Grandma has watched some films interpreted by Guy Henry, the English actor born on a day like today in 1960.

Guy Henry (born 17 October 1960) is an English actor whose roles include Henrik Hanssen in Holby City, Pius Thicknesse in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 1 and Part 2, Cassius in Rome and Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One.

Henry was born on 17 October 1960 in London. He attended Homefield School and then Brockenhurst College in Hampshire where he took A levels. He trained at RADA (1979-81). In 1982, he took the title role in ITV's Young Sherlock Holmes series, playing Holmes as a teenager, though Henry was by then nearly 22.

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

Henry first appeared on stage as a footman in amateur dramatic society Highcliffe Charity Players' production of Cinderella at age 11. He is now the president of HCP and continues to support their productions.

Henry's main work has been with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

He has also worked with Cheek by Jowl, Theatre Set Up and the National Theatre, including Turgenev in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia in 2002.

He was an acclaimed Earl of Leicester in the 2005-06 Donmar Warehouse production of Schiller's Mary Stuart, which transferred to the West End. He had previously played the same character in the 1986 film Lady Jane. 

From December 2008 to March 2009 he appeared as Andrew Aguecheek (alongside Derek Jacobi) in the Donmar: West End production of Twelfth Night. In April and May 2009 he appeared in Hay Fever at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

In 1982, Henry appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the TV series Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House. He appeared in the episode Rumpole and the Official Secret from Season 4 of Rumpole of the Bailey in 1987.

Henry's film credits include appearances in Another Country with Rupert Everett, Lady Jane, England, My England film by Tony Palmer, in Stephen Fry's 2003 film Bright Young Things (appearing in the poster for it, top left) as Archie Schwert, in V for Vendetta as Conrad Heyer, in Starter for 10 as a university professor, in Expresso, in Vincente Amorim's 2008 film Good as a senior doctor in Nazi Germany and as Pius Thicknesse in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 1 and Part 2.

In 2014, he appeared in the critically acclaimed short film Done In.

In 2016, Henry appeared in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, providing the physical and vocal performance for Grand Moff Tarkin; the use of CGI special effects recreated the likeness of Peter Cushing, who died in 1994, for the character. The performance, while not without controversy, was praised by Cushing's estate.

Henry was a guest speaker at an NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) summer seminar entitled Shakespeare: Enacting the Text.

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One hears many things, my Lord.
Which among them is the truth is not clear.

Pius Thicknesse/Guy Henry