{{Short description|English actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox person |name=Greg Hicks |image= |caption= |birth_date= {{birth date and age|1953|5|27|df=y}} |birth_place=Leicester, England, U.K. |occupation = Actor | alma_mater = Rose Bruford College }} '''Greg Hicks''' (born 27 May 1953) is an English actor. He completed theatrical training at Rose Bruford College<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/interviews/theatre/london/E8821070553137/20+Questions+With...Greg+Hicks.html |title=20 Questions With...Greg Hicks - - Interviews - Whatsonstage.com |access-date=25 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615181541/http://www.whatsonstage.com/interviews/theatre/london/E8821070553137/20+Questions+With...Greg+Hicks.html |archive-date=15 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{When|date=February 2011}} and joined The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1976. He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98547/Olivier-Winners-2004/ |title=Olivier Winners 2004 | the Official London Theatre Guide |access-date=25 October 2010 |archive-date=27 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127191842/http://officiallondontheatre.co.uk/olivier_awards/past_winners/view/item98547/Olivier-Winners-2004/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> in the category "Best Actor of 2003" for his performance in ''Coriolanus'' at the Old Vic and was awarded the 2003 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards (Drama) for Best Shakespearian Performance in the same role.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://criticscircle.org.uk/drama/award.asp?CAT=drama_sp&title=The%20John%20And%20Wendy%20Trewin%20Award%20For%20Best%20Shakespearian%20Performance |title=Critics' Circle | Drama |access-date=25 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207042437/http://criticscircle.org.uk/drama/award.asp?CAT=drama_sp&title=The%20John%20And%20Wendy%20Trewin%20Award%20For%20Best%20Shakespearian%20Performance |archive-date=7 December 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Hicks has practised the Brazilian hybrid of martial arts and dance capoeira,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/oct/10/rsc.theatre|title=Actor Greg Hicks on his new role as Tamburlaine|website=TheGuardian.com|date=10 October 2005}}</ref> as well as the Japanese dance-theatre form butoh.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/interviews/view/item71748/Greg-Hicks/|title=The Home of London Theatre|newspaper=Official London Theatre }}</ref> He has said that he started to explore the physicality associated with these disciplines in a masked production of ''Oresteia'' (1981), directed by his mentor at the National Theatre, Peter Hall.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hicks|first1=Greg|title=Greg Hicks: how Peter Hall transformed me as an actor|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/sep/16/greg-hicks-peter-hall-defined-me-as-an-actor-national-theatre|accessdate=24 September 2015|work=The Guardian|date=16 September 2014}}</ref> In 2016, he toured with Flute Theatre as Claudius in a production of ''Hamlet, who's there?'' written for interactive audiences.<ref>[http://www.flutetheatre.co.uk/hamlet/ ''Hamlet, who's there?'' on the Flute Theatre website]</ref>
==Selected stage performances== * Royal Shakespeare Company: ** ''Julius Caesar'' (2001) as Brutus ** ''Merry Wives of Windsor'' (2002) as Dr Caius ** ''Coriolanus'' (2002) as Coriolanus ** ''Hamlet'' (2004) as Ghost/Player King/Gravedigger ** ''Macbeth'' (2004) as Macbeth ** ''Julius Caesar'' (2009) as Julius Caesar ** ''The Winter's Tale'' (2009) as Leontes ** ''King Lear'' (2010) as King Lear ** ''Hamlet'' (2013) as Claudius/Ghost ** ''All's Well That Ends Well'' (2013) as King of France *Other: ** ''Acastos'' at the National Theatre (1980) ** ''The Romans in Britain'', as Marban, a druid, at the National Theatre (1980) ** ''The Oresteia'', as Orestes, at the National Theatre and Epidavros, Greece (1982) and Channel 4 (1983) **''Coriolanus'', as Tullus Aufidius, National Theatre, (1984)<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wardle|first1=Irving|title=Great Dramatic Partnership|journal=The Times|date=17 December 1984|page=13}}</ref> ** ''The Homecoming'', as Teddy, at the Comedy Theatre, London (1991) ** ''Messiah'' at the Old Vic (2002) as Christ ** ''Bacchai'', as Dionysus, at the National Theatre (2003) ** ''Missing Persons: Four Tragedies and Roy Keane'' by Colin Teevan at the Jermyn Street Theatre (2006) as various characters ** ''Tamburlaine'' at the Barbican (2005) as Tamburlaine ** ''An Enemy of the People'' at the Arcola Theatre (2008) as Dr Thomas Stockmann ** ''In Blood: The Bacchae'' at the Arcola Theatre (2009) ** ''Clarion'', Arcola Theatre, (2015) ** ''Hamlet, who's there?'' as Claudius, with Flute Theatre (2016) **''Richard III'' (title role) Arcola (2017)<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Billington|first1=Michael|title=Richard III review – Greg Hicks is a magnetic, darkly memorable king|journal=The Guardian|date=15 May 2017|page=34|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/may/15/richard-iii-review-greg-hicks-arcola|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> **''Ghosts'' at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (2023) as Jacob Engstrand<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ghosts {{!}} What's On |url=https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/ghosts-2023/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Shakespeare's Globe |language=en-GB}}</ref> **''The Dream of a Ridiculous Man'' at the Marylebone Theatre (2024) solo performance adapted from the Fyodor Dostoevsky short story<ref>{{cite web |last1=Heneage |first1=Georgia |title=The Dream of a Ridiculous Man |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/article/the-dream-of-a-ridiculous-man-review-dostoyevsky-gets-an-update-zhmz5xcpg |website=The Times |date=29 March 2024 |access-date=30 March 2024}}</ref>
==Partial filmography== *''Northanger Abbey'' 1987 (TV) *''Fortunes of War'' 1987 (TV) *''Bergerac'' (TV) *''Maigret'' 1992 (TV) *''Agatha Christie's Marple'' 2006 (TV) *''Waking the Dead'' 2007 (TV) *''Midsomer Murders'' 2011 (TV) *''Snow White & the Huntsman'' 2012 *''The Bible'' 2013 (TV) *''Son of God'' 2014
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|382854}} * [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/oct/10/rsc.theatre Interview with Greg Hicks in The Guardian on playing Macbeth] * [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14933-1480076,00.html The Times on Greg Hicks' career and his role as Macbeth]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20101027062402/http://www.rsc.org.uk/about-us/ensemble/ensemble-biog-greg-hicks.aspx Greg Hicks] at the Royal Shakespeare Company
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