George Asprey

George Asprey is a British actor who works across stage, film, and television. Born in London in 1966, he trained at LAMDA. Soon after drama school he earned good reviews for playing Sean Devereux in the Yorkshire Television film The Dying of the Light (1992). His early screen appearances included the role of a policeman in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994). In 1995 he played Tony Paterson in the ITV serial An Independent Man. His later credits range from Doc Holliday in a 2003 BBC production to Walter Monckton in The Crown in 2016 and Jonathan Rees QC in Four Lives in 2021. He has had his longest stage association as Scar in the London production of the musical The Lion King, a part he began in 2008 and continued to play in October 2019. After the production closed during the COVID-19 lockdown, he came back to the role when it returned at the Lyceum Theatre in July 2021.