Rupert Vansittart

Rupert Vansittart is an English actor who studied drama at the Central School of Speech and Drama and has worked in film, television, stage and radio, often in comic roles. He started on screen in an episode of Bulman in 1985, and from 1992 to 2009 he was Lord Ashfordly in the police drama Heartbeat. His film work includes The Remains of the Day (1993), as Sir Geoffrey Wren, and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). His television credits range from Pride and Prejudice and Doctor Who to Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War, where he was Sir Alec Myerson, and the political drama Margaret. On stage he appeared in Arsenic and Old Lace in the West End and in Great Britain at the Royal National Theatre. He is also known for his recurring role as Lord Yohn Royce in Game of Thrones.