Greg Hicks

Greg Hicks is an English actor, born 27 May 1953 in Leicester.

He joined The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1976 after theatrical training at Rose Bruford College.

He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for 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.

Personal life

Greg Hicks practises Japanese butoh and Brazilian capoeira.

Greg Hicks once remarked in an acting seminar- " There are the actors that jerk-off in front of the audience, actors that fuck the audience, and just a few who make love to the audience." (2006)

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

• Other:
  • Acastos at the National Theatre (1980)
  • The Romans in Britain, as Marban, a druid, at the National Theatre (1980)
  • Messiah at the Old Vic (2002) as Christ
  • Missing Persons: Four Tragedies and Roy Keane by Colin Teevan at the Trafalgar Studios (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)

Partial filmography

• Northanger Abbey 1986 (TV)
• Fortunes of War 1987 (TV)
• Bergerac (TV)
• Maigret 1992 (TV)
• Marple: Sleeping Murder 2006 (TV)
• Tantalus: Behind the Mask 2001
• Waking the Dead 2007 (TV)

External links

• Greg Hicks at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Greg Hicks in The Guardian on playing Macbeth
• The Times on Greg Hicks' career and his role as Macbeth

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