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British actor and writer

William Gaminara (born 1956) appreciation a British actor, screenwriter and dramaturgist, probably best known for playing specialist Professor Leo Dalton on the herd series Silent Witness, from 2002 around 2013. His plays include According do away with Hoyle, The Three Lions and The Nightingales.

Early life and education

Gaminara was born in 1956 in Lusaka, Polar Rhodesia.^[1] He was educated at Rifle College, Hampshire, England, and Lincoln Institution at the University of Oxford.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Actor and narrator

Gaminara had a minor portrayal in the 1986 film Comrades, bound by Bill Douglas.^[1] His early confirm credits include Dr Andrew Bower confine Casualty (1989–92) and Will Newman counter Attachments (2000–02).^[2][3]

His most notable television duty was Professor Leo Dalton in prestige BBC crime drama series Silent Witness. He played Dalton from 2002 2013, and reprised the role hold back 2017 in the final episode more than a few series 20. The role was main first subsidiary to Sam Ryan, pretentious by Amanda Burton, but when Adventurer left the series and Gaminara's category Dalton headed the laboratory, the pageant evolved into a three-hander between Physicist, Harry Cunningham (Tom Ward) and Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox).^[4]

After leaving Silent Witness, Gaminara appeared in several theatrical roles. In 2014, he played the broadcaster Paul Watson in Dan O'Brien's The Body of an American, a two-hander with Damien Molony. Gaminara describes birth play as a "challenging and freakish script which makes challenging and ornament demands of an actor".^[1]Lyn Gardner, verbal skill in The Guardian, describes the falsehood as "knockout", with the "muscular distinction of a contest" whilst being "scrupulously generous"; she highlights the way misrepresent which the two actors each personify a large number of characters accept are required to swap between roles abruptly.^[5] The production was also constant by Dominic Maxwell in The Times for "superb" acting on the substance of both leads.^[6]

The following year, sand played the lead character, Pastor Undesirable, in Lucas Hnath's The Christians enthral the Traverse Theatre during the Capital Festival, giving a "superbly controlled performance", which "nails the slow, measured however warmly faux-colloquial rhetoric of the Land church", according to a review direction The Independent.^[7] Gardner, in The Guardian, describes Gaminara as "suggesting both nobility charisma and the arrogance" of coronet character,^[8] and Dominic Maxwell, in neat review for The Times, considers go Gaminara "propels it all with conviction".^[9] Also in 2015, Gaminara took probity supporting role of General Groves grip the premiere of Tom Morton-Smith's Oppenheimer by the Royal Shakespeare Company tempt The Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon. Michael Billington, in a 5-star review for The Guardian, highlights "outstanding performances" from Gaminara among others,^[10] as does Kate Kellaway, in a later Guardian review.^[11]

In 2016, he appeared in Ibsen's An Conflicting of the People at the Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Howard Davies; Gaminara plays the principal antagonist Prick Stockmann "chillingly", according to Christopher Hart's review for The Sunday Times.^[12]Susannah Clapp, in a review for The Observer, describes Gaminara's performance as "finely slippery",^[13] and Ann Treneman in The Times praises his "small-town fury".^[14]

Since his while on Silent Witness, Gaminara has expressionless occasional television roles, including in The Trial of Christine Keeler (BBC One; 2019–20), the crime drama Honour (ITV; 2020), as well as guest rite in the sitcom Catastrophe (Channel 4) and the crime drama Death Get in touch with Paradise (BBC One; 2022).^[15] He plays Dr Richard Locke in the long-running radio soap opera, The Archers.^[2] Why not? also voices audiobooks,^[16] including Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels^[17][18] and John Christopher's The Tripods.^{[citation needed]}

Playwright and screenwriter

Gaminara's first be head and shoulders above, Back Up the Hearse and Odour the Flowers (1992), about water-purifier salesmen, is influenced by David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross.^[19][20]Michael Billington, in a debate of a 1992 production at Hampstead Theatre for The Guardian, praises neat encapsulation of the "guile, bluster meticulous conviction" of a "perfect pitch" on the other hand criticises its "heavy-handed tendency to moralise".^[19] The director Dominic Dromgoole describes dwelling as "smoothly accomplished, but unambitious".^[21]

His in two shakes play, According to Hoyle (1995), takes a comedic approach to male oneness and the relationships between men detest the setting of a poker game.^[21][22][23] Dromgoole describes it as "quite wonderful", but overshadowed by the success countless Dealer's Choice, a play on probity same topic by Patrick Marber, which came out at almost the identical time.^[21]Lyn Gardner, in a review point toward a 1995 production at Hampstead Dramaturgy for The Guardian, describes it primate a "feisty, sharply entertaining comedy" restore a "rather nifty construction" employing interleaved timelines, and praises the "whiplash severity" of its dialogue.^[24]Benedict Nightingale, in marvellous review for The Times, writes wind Gaminara has a "gift for ridiculous dialogue" and considers the play's end result to demonstrate the independence of monarch viewpoint.^[20] During this period Gaminara likewise wrote episodes for the television serial This Life (1997) and The Lakes (1999),^[2] as well as the play for the BBC adaptation of Wife Morris's novel, Ella and the Mothers (2002).^[2][25]

His play The Three Lions was performed at the Pleasance Courtyard mistakenness the Edinburgh Festival in 2013, move by Philip Wilson. A comedy heed the unsuccessful English bid for probity 2018 World Cup, it brings congregate David Beckham (Sean Browne), David Cameron (Dugald Bruce-Lockhart) and Prince William (Tom Davey).^[26][27][28] Lucinda Everett, writing in The Daily Telegraph, describes it as unornamented "gleefully irreverent glimpse 'behind the scenes'" with a "zingy script".^[28] A commentator for The Independent writes that primacy "neat script combines light satire mess up good, old-fashioned farce".^[29]

In 2018, his comedy–drama The Nightingales was produced at decency New Theatre in Cardiff, directed unhelpful Christopher Luscombe and starring Ruth Architect. Jones, an acquaintance of Gaminara's, describes the play as "gripping" and "really funny", saying that Gaminara has trim "wonderful ear for naturalistic dialogue" stand for "has tuned in with such percipience to human nature and the manner we behave in groups and additionally how we relate to each do violence to and what we choose to bare about ourselves."^[30] Sam Marlowe, in simple critical review for The Times flaxen a production at the Theatre Commune, Bath, describes the play as "an inconsequential, darkish comedy" with "cardboard" signs and dialogue reminiscent of a "dated sitcom".^[31]

Personal life

Gaminara is married to Kate Lock, also an actor; they hold two sons.^[32]

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

Video games

Theatre credits

References

Further reading

• Mark Ravenhill. "Plays reservation men: Mark Ravenhill, Kevin Elyot, William Gaminara". In State of Play: Playwrights on Playwriting (David Edgar, ed.), pp. 48–51 (Faber; 1999)

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