Background
Born in Neath, Gwilym is the brother of actor Robert Gwilym, son of Arthur Aubrey Remington Gwilym and Renée Mathilde Eugénie Léonce Dupont.
Born in Neath, Gwilym is the brother of actor Robert Gwilym, son of Arthur Aubrey Remington Gwilym and Renée Mathilde Eugénie Léonce Dupont.
Mike"s Belgian maternal grandfather was the oil industrialist Edmond Jules Dupont from Liège. His stage debut was as "Prince Hal" in Henry IV, Participant 1 at the Playhouse Theatre, Sheffield, United Kingdom in 1969. Gwilym joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1974.
His debut in London was with that company in that year as "Vlass" in Summerfolk, at the Aldwych Theatre.
He starred in many of their productions during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including The Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida, and Love"s Labour"s Lost. He made his television debut in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s 1975 adaptation of How Green Was My Valley.
His most high-profile role was as jockey-turned-detective Sid Halley in The Racing Game, a six-part Yorkshire Television series based on Dick Francis"s 1965 novel Odds Against, and his film credits include roles in Hopscotch (1980), Venom (1981), Priest of Love (1981), Anno Domini (1985), and Peter the Great (1986). He subsequently returned to playing classical roles on stage and screen.
In the British Broadcasting Corporation Television Shakespeare series, he starred in Coriolanus (as Aufidius), in Love"s Labour"s Lost (as Berowne), and Pericles, Prince of Tyre in the title role.
From the year 2001 he has shared a home with his partner in Sotogrande in the province of Cadiz.