Biography
Roger Ashton-Griffiths is an English character actor, screenwriter and film director. Born on 19 January 1957 in Hertfordshire, he read music at Lancaster University, graduating in 1978, and later gained an MA in Fine Art from the University of East London and a PhD in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. He began his career as a singer with the English National Opera at the London Coliseum between 1979 and 1981.
He is known for film roles including the Priest in Brazil (1985), P.T. Barnum in Gangs of New York (2002), the Old Bishop in A Knight's Tale (2001), the Doctor in The Lobster (2015) and Musician #1 in The Death of Stalin (2017). On television he has played Mace Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2014–2016) and appeared in Doctor Who (2005) and The Tudors (2009). He has also written and directed for screen and stage; his debut novel was published in 2023.
