Orlando Seale

Orlando Seale is an English actor born in London who attended Oxford University, where he earned advanced degrees in English and French literature and won the Cuppers Prize for best actor. He performed lead roles at Oxford, including Macbeth, Caliban and Demetrius. His training continued in London at the Ecole Philippe Gaulier and in Paris at the Conservatoire National Superieure D'Art Dramatique. He toured Europe and North America for three years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing Silvio in The Servant To Two Masters at Stratford-on-Avon and the Young Vic. He took the role of Orpheus in a West End staging of Eurydice and appeared in Brazil alongside Augusto Boal. Kenneth Branagh chose him as an acting understudy for Hamlet, his first feature, and he later appeared in Sleepy Hollow, Hysteria and Pride & Prejudice (2003). Critics and fans praised his performance as Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott, and he was a regular on a top-rated British television series.