Greg Hicks
Biography
Greg Hicks is an English actor who trained at Rose Bruford College before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1976, going on to build a stage career largely out of classical roles. He played Brutus, Macbeth, Leontes, King Lear and Julius Caesar for the company, and at the National Theatre he worked with his mentor Peter Hall, including a masked Oresteia in which he explored the physicality he had studied through capoeira and butoh. His Coriolanus at the Old Vic brought him a nomination for the 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for best actor of 2003 and the 2003 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for best Shakespearian performance. Later work included touring with Flute Theatre in 2016 as Claudius in Hamlet, who's there?, staged for interactive audiences.
73years old
Turns 74 on May 27in 224 days
- Born Leicester
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 35 years1979 to 2014
Every film, newest first
- 2014Son of GodIMDb rating 5.8
- 2013Burton and TaylorIMDb rating 6.4
- 1979A Performance of MacbethIMDb rating 7.6
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Hicks trained in capoeira, the Brazilian blend of martial arts and dance, and in the Japanese dance-theater form butoh, and said he began exploring the physicality of those disciplines in a 1981 masked Oresteia directed by his National Theatre mentor Peter Hall.
Behind the award
Hicks was awarded the 2003 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards (Drama) for Best Shakespearian Performance for playing Coriolanus at the Old Vic, the same role that brought him a 2004 Laurence Olivier nomination.
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Worked with
Greg Hicks made one film with each of them. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Christopher SpencerDirector, 1 film, 2014
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Richard LaxtonDirector, 1 film, 2013
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Philip CassonDirector, 1 film, 1979
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