Timothy Dalton

Background

Education

As a teenager, he was a member of the Air Cadets.

He decided to become an actor at 16 after seeing a production of Macbeth.

He left school in 1964 to enroll in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and tour with the National Youth Theatre. Dalton did not complete his RADA studies, leaving the academy in 1966 to join the ensemble of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Career

Achievements

• He is known for his roles as King Phillip The second of France in the 1968 Academy-award winning The Lion In Winter, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1970), Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1983), Prince Barin in Flash Gordon (1980), Shakespearean films and plays such as Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Henry V, Love's Labour's Lost, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2. Recently, he had a voice acting part in Toy Story 3 as Mr. Pricklepants and portrayed the recurring character of Alexei Volkoff in the United States television series Chuck and Rassilon in the Doctor Who two-part episode "The End of Time".

Views

Quotations: Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

- Timothy Dalton

It's very important to make the man believable.

- Timothy Dalton

Interests

• theater, cinema,fishing, reading,opera, he also collects antiques

• Sport & Clubs

  football,tennis

• Music & Bands

  jazz

Connections

Father:

Peter Leggit Dalton

Mother:

Dorothy Dalton

ex-wife:

Oksana Grigorieva

Son:

Alexander Dalton