Gethin Anthony

Gethin David L. Anthony (born 9 October 1983) is an English television and film actor best known for his role as Renly Baratheon for the first two seasons of Game of Thrones.

Gethin Anthony
Anthony at the 2019 German Comic Con Dortmund
Born	(1983-10-09) 9 October 1983 (age 40) Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford LAMDA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2006–present

Early life and education

Anthony was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.^[1]

He attended Ashton Hayes Primary School in Ashton Hayes, Cheshire, Christ Church Primary School in New Malden, and the Tiffin School in Kingston-Upon-Thames. He received a scholarship for a summer programme at the British American Drama Academy in London from July to August 2004.

Anthony went on to study English Literature at Oxford University's Balliol College, appeared in numerous student productions (notably in the title role of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Oxford Playhouse^[2]), and was President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, before training at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.^[3]

Career

Anthony played Grigory^[4] in Boris Godunov at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon from November 2012 to March 2013.^[5]

He had guest roles in the series Ten Days to War and Doctors, and played William in the 2014 film Copenhagen.^[6] His most notable roles are Renly Baratheon in the HBO series Game of Thrones^[7][8][9] and Charles Manson in the NBC series Aquarius.^[10][11][12] In 2017, he voiced the character of Gil Brodie in the video game Mass Effect: Andromeda,^[13] and appeared in a play A Lie of the Mind at Southwark Playhouse in London with Robert Lonsdale and Kate Fahy.^[14], He also starred in Call the Midwife in 2014, in the role of George Saint.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Pinochet's Last Stand	William Straw	Debut, TV film[15]
2008	Beyond the Rave	Noddy	Short
2009	Into the Storm	1st Pilot	TV film
2012	Narcopolis	Herb
2014	Copenhagen	William
	Alt	Danny	TV film
	We Are Monsters	Maurice Travis
2017	Solace	Man	Short film
	First Kill	Levi Barrett
	Kodachrome	Jasper
	Hi-Lo Joe	Alex
2018	Dead In A Week (or your money back)	Charlie
	Vita and Virginia	Clive Bell
	Firestorm	Sam Scott	TV film
	Fell: Nothing Could Have Survived This		Short film
	O Christmas Tree	Craig	Short film
	Tahiti	Marcus	Short film
2019	Welcome to the Powder Keg	Tommy	Short film
	Around the Sun	Bernard
	Angel Hunter	Tyro	Short film
2020	Rival		Short film
	Freedom of the People	William Walwyn	Short film
	Firestorm: Wake Up Call	Sam Scott	Short film
	Knuckledust	Jeremiah
	Limbo	Tom Murphy	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2006	Holby City	Drew Kramer	Episode: "Yesterday Once More"
2007	Doctors	Dave Jones	Episode: "A Sting in the Tai"
2008	10 Days to War	Minister's Aid	Episode: "These Things Are Always Chaos"
2011–2012	Game of Thrones	Renly Baratheon	Recurring role; 8 episodes (seasons 1–2)	[16]
2014	Call the Midwife	George Saint	Episode: "Series 3, Episode 7"
2015–2016	Aquarius	Charles Manson	Series regular, 30 episodes	[17]
2019	The Magicians	Enyalius	Episodes: "The Serpent" & "All That Hard, Glossy Armor"
2020	Manhunt: Unabomber	Jack Brennan	Series regular, 10 episodes

Video games

Year	Game	Voice role	Notes
2012	Need for Speed: Most Wanted
2013	Cloud Chamber	Max
2014	Dragon Age: Inquisition	Imshael/Ser Morris/Red Templar
2016	Quantum Break	Jack Joyce Prototype #2
2017	Mass Effect: Andromeda	Gil Brodie[18]
2019	Anthem	Freelancer Diggs/Lancer Hawking

Stage

• Theatre 503/Latitude's Carrot as Alex
• Theatre Royal Northampton's In Praise of Love as Joey
• High Tide/Old Vic Tunnels's Ditch as James
• Birmingham Rep Theatre's Cling to Me Like Ivy as Patrick
• Hampstead Theatre's What Fatima Did as George
• The Old Red Lion's Fairytaleheart as Gideon.
• Tristan Bates Theatre's Death of Cool as Richie
• Old Vic's 24 Hour Plays
• Old Fire Station Theatre's Some Voices as Ray
• Oxford Playhouse's Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano
• Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon's Boris Godunov as Grigoriy Otrepyev, later Dmitriy, the Pretender

Audio

• BBC Radio 4's Small Acts of Kindness as Charlie
• BBC Radio 4's Severed Threads as Jones
• Radio Static's The Minister of Chance as Sutu
• BBC's Legsy Gets a Break as John
• Big Finish Productions's The Year of Martha Jones as Mr Strand

References

1. Longman, Will (19 April 2017). "5 minutes with Gethin Anthony: 'I cried when I got a call from the RSC'". WhatsOnStage. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
2. "BBC – Oxford Stage". BBC. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
3. "Gethin Anthony". United Agents. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
4. "Boris Godunov | Michael Boyd 2012 | Royal Shakespeare Company". rsc.org.uk.
5. "Boris Godunov, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon". The Independent. London. 29 November 2012.
6. "Gethin it Done: GoT alum Gethin Anthony makes SF stop to promote new flick". sfreporter.com. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
7. "Interview: "Game of Thrones" Gethin Anthony Isn't Afraid of a Little Manscaping". newnownext.com. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
8. Ugrin, Nicole. "Interview: Gethin Anthony talks Game of Thrones, Minister of Chance – | movies, TV, videogames, crowd-funding – Shadowlocked: find the future!". shadowlocked.com. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
9. "Renly Baratheon isn't happy about 'Game of Thrones' happenings". USA Today. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
10. Smith, Krista (28 May 2015). "Gethin Anthony on Going from Game of Thrones into the Mind of Charles Manson". vanityfair.com. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
11. "'Game of Thrones' Star on Transforming into Charles Manson for 'Aquarius'". observer.com. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
12. Harris, Bill; Network, Postmedia. "'Game of Thrones' star Gethin Anthony tackles Charles Manson for 'Aquarius'". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
13. "GIL BRODIE". behindthevoiceactors.com. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
14. Longman, Will (10 March 2017). "Exclusive: Casting announced for A Lie of the Mind at Southwark Playhouse". whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
15. "2006 Pinochet – Filmography".^{[permanent dead link]}
16. Bundel, Ani (25 September 2016). "Gethin Anthony Talks Positive Gay Role Models on Game of Thrones". Winter Is Coming. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
17. Desta, Yohana (20 November 2017). "Charles Manson Is Dead, but Hollywood Isn't Done with Him Yet". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
18. "MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA – Natalie Dormer as Dr Lexi T'Perro" – via YouTube.

External links

• Gethin Anthony at IMDb
• Interview with Shadowlocked.com
• Gethin Anthony on Facebook