Joseph Mawle

Joseph Mawle is an English actor who made his biggest impact in the television film Soundproof, in which the lead role required a deaf actor, and earned a nomination for the RTS Breakthrough on Screen Award. He grew up on a farm in Warwickshire and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2002. Early stage parts included Troilus for Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, work at the Nuffield Theatre in Hamlet, and Antony and Cleopatra in Manchester. On screen he played Jesus in The Passion, Benjen Stark in Game of Thrones, and Inspector Jedediah Shine in Ripper Street, and his films include Persuasion (2007), Heartless (2009), The Cold Light of Day (2012), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), Shell (2012) and The Hallow (2015). He was Judas in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and later played Adar in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.