Guy Henry (actor)

Henry first appeared on stage as a footman in amateur dramatic society Highcliffe Charity Players' production of Cinderella at age 11. He is now the president of HCP and continues to support their productions.

Henry's main work has been with the Royal Shakespeare Company, including the following roles:

• 1991 – Thurio (The Two Gentlemen of Verona), Poggio (Tis Pity She's a Whore), Ananias (The Alchemist).
• 1992 – Osric (Hamlet), Sir Formal Trifle (The Virtuoso)
• 1993 – Second Tempter and Second Knight (Murder in the Cathedral), Lelio (The Venetian Twins)
• 1994 – Director [character name] (A Life in the Theatre)
• 1996 – Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Twelfth Night)
• 1997 – Cloten (Cymbeline), Dr Caius (The Merry Wives of Windsor)
• 1998 – Lord Chamberlain (Henry VIII)
• 1999 – Russayev (Yuri Gagarin), Octavius Caesar (Antony and Cleopatra)
• 2001 – Malvolio (Twelfth Night), King John (King John), Mosca (Volpone)
• 2003 – Parolles (All's Well That Ends Well)
• 2013 – Captain Hook (Wendy and Peter Pan)

He has also worked with Cheek by Jowl, Theatre Set Up and the National Theatre (including Turgenev in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia in 2002).

He was an acclaimed Earl of Leicester in the 2005–06 Donmar Warehouse production of Schiller's Mary Stuart, which transferred to the West End. He had previously played the same character in the 1986 film Lady Jane. From December 2008 to March 2009 he appeared as Andrew Aguecheek (alongside Derek Jacobi) in the Donmar: West End production of Twelfth Night. In April and May 2009 he appeared in Hay Fever at the Chichester Festival Theatre.[2]

In 1987, Henry appeared in the episode "Rumpole and the Official Secret" from Season 4 of Rumpole of the Bailey. In the early 1990s, he played the acerbic, demonic Dr Walpurgis in The Vault of Horror, a BBC Halloween special. His make-up was provided by Hellraiser veteran Geoff Portass. Henry also introduced a few series of cult horror films in several BBC One Friday night horror seasons (with a name change to "Dr Terror"), with scripted introductions written by horror novelist and film historian Kim Newman. He appeared in the 1996 schools series Look and Read: Spywatch, and in ITV's 1996 adaptation of Emma. In 1998 he appeared in the medical soap opera Peak Practice, and in two episodes of The Grand.

He appeared in four episodes of the 2001 series of the medical soap Doctors.

He has also frequently been cast as a conspiratorial and/or Machiavellian civil servant, as in Fields of Gold (2002) and Foyle's War (in a 2003 episode). He played the title role in Channel 4's 2004 documentary Who Killed Thomas Becket? (a "promotion" from his role as Tempter in the RSC Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot's version of the same story); and was a deportment tutor and a shoemaker respectively in the BBC's adaptation of The Young Visiters [sic] (2003) and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (Christmas 2004). He played the part of Corporal Ludovic in the C4 presentation of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy (2001) alongside the then relatively unknown Daniel Craig.

In 2004 he appeared in Waking the Dead series 3 "Multistorey" as Guy Reynolds.

In 2005 he appeared in the feature-length ITV drama Colditz and had a recurring role in Extras, which continued into a few episodes of the comedy's second season. He also had a small role in the ITV drama, Trial & Retribution IX: The Lovers. His main role that year, however, was as Cassius (fictionalised version of Gaius Longinus Cassius) in the last two or three episodes of the first series of HBO/BBC series Rome. He reprised this role in the second series (broadcast 2007) until the character's death at the Battle of Philippi in the episode Philippi. His friend Sarah Kennedy (see #Radio) commented that this was a natural progression for one with his "lean and hungry look" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2.I).

In 2006, he played a lawyer in Midsomer Murders, appeared with Michael Sheen in Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (as Hugh Paddick), and featured in the first, fifth and sixth episodes of the first series of The Chase (in another role he reprised in 2007). In 2007 he appeared as the UK's UN Ambassador in The Trial of Tony Blair and appeared in the seventh episode of the second series of Hotel Babylon. Also in 2007 he appeared on radio as Noël Coward in the Afternoon Play of 4 May 2007, "The Master and Mrs Tucker" by Roy Apps, which told of Coward's friendship with Edith Nesbit (played by Ann Bell).[3]

In 2008, he appeared in HBO's John Adams as Jonathan Sewall, Massachusetts's Attorney General, as Mr Collins in Lost in Austen, and in Series 7, Episode 4 of Spooks.

In 2009 he appeared in Margaret and in Lewis (Series 4, Episode 1). Also in 2009 he appeared in several episodes of Ricky Gervais' BBC comedy Extras as the commissioning editor of BBC Comedy.

In 2010 he appeared as a lawyer in an episode of The IT Crowd titled "Something Happened".

In October 2010 he joined the regular cast of Holby City as surgeon Henrik Hanssen, a role he played for three years until his departure in October 2013. In October 2014, it was announced that he would rejoin the cast of Holby City.[4]

In October 2014, he appeared as the inspector in the BBC 6-part drama Our Zoo.

In January 2015, he appeared as hypnotist Arthur Welkin in the BBC series Father Brown episode 3.3 "The Invisible Man".

In October 2016, he appeared as Mr Murthwaite in the BBC mini-series The Moonstone.

In November 2017, he appeared as the Dean of Westminster in the second season of the Rainmark Films series The Frankenstein Chronicles.