Michael Maloney
Biography
Michael Maloney is a British actor who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He made his West End debut in 1979, joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982, and later took stage roles as Hamlet, Romeo and Prince Hal. He became a familiar face through Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989), in which he played the Dauphin. His screen credits include Truly Madly Deeply (1990), the lead in the BBC's Love on a Branch Line (1994), In the Bleak Midwinter (1995), and The Young Victoria (2009), where he was Sir Robert Peel. In the two Hamlet films he was Rosencrantz in 1990 and Laertes in 1996. On television he has appeared in The White Queen, The Crown and Paranoid, and he had a cameo in Belfast (2021). His voice work spans radio drama, audio books and video games, and he took the stage as Hercule Poirot in a 2025 tour of Murder on the Orient Express.
69years old
Turns 70 on June 19in 250 days
- Born Bury St Edmunds
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 37 years1984 to 2021
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Big break
Maloney played the Dauphin in Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film adaptation of Henry V, and that role made him a familiar face.
First role
Maloney's West End debut came in 1979, in Brian Clark's Can you Hear Me at The Back?, and Alan Ayckbourn's Taking Steps came right after it.
Michael Maloney movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Kenneth Branagh directed three of these films. Nicholas Farrell appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Nicholas Farrell's page
Cate Blanchett's page
Judi Dench's page
Bill Paterson's page
Harriet Walter's page
Also two films together7 more actors
- Adrian ScarboroughNotes on a Scandal (2006) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
- Nathaniel ParkerOthello (1995) and Hamlet (1990)
- Richard BriersHamlet (1996) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
- Gerard HoranBelfast (2021) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
- André OumanskyBabel (2006) and Othello (1995)
- Wendy NottinghamBabel (2006) and Notes on a Scandal (2006)
- Richard SymsSummer in February (2013) and Truly Madly Deeply (1990)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Michael Maloney's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$292 million
8 of the 16 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 16 films: 8 worldwide figure; 3 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 4 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 3US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 4Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$135M46.3% of the total
- 2$50M17.0% of the total
- 3$49M16.8% of the total
- 4$29M10.0% of the total
- 5$21M7.1% of the total
- 6$4.7M1.6% of the total
- 7$2.8M1.0% of the total
- 8$753K0.3% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.