Gethin David L. Anthony (born 9 October 1983) is an English television and film actor best known for his role as Renly Baratheon in Game of Thrones from 2011 to 2012.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
• 3 Filmography
  • 3.1 Films
  • 3.2 Television
  • 3.3 Video games
• 4 Stage
• 5 Audio
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Early life and education

Anthony was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.

He attended Ashton Hayes Primary School in Ashton Hayes, Cheshire, Christ Church Primary School in New Malden, and the Tiffin School in Kingston-Upon-Thames. He received a scholarship for a summer programme at the British American Drama Academy in London from July to August 2004.

Anthony went on to study English Literature at Oxford University's Balliol College, appeared in numerous student productions (notably in the *le role of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Oxford Playhouse), and was President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, before training at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Career

Anthony played Grigory in Boris Godunov at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon from November 2012 to March 2013.

He had guest roles in the series Ten Days to War and Doctors, and played William in the 2014 film Copenhagen. His most notable roles are Renly Baratheon in the HBO series Game of Thrones and Charles Manson in the NBC series Aquarius. In 2017, he voiced the character of Gil Brodie in the video game M* Effect: Andromeda, and appeared in a play A Lie of the Mind at Southwark Playhouse in London with Robert Lonsdale and Kate Fahy.

Filmography

Films

Television

Video games

Stage

• Theatre 503/La*ude's Carrot as Alex
• Theatre Royal Northampton's In Praise of Love as Joey
• High Tide/Old Vic Tunnels's Ditch as James
• Birmingham Rep Theatre's Cling to Me Like Ivy as Patrick
• Hampstead Theatre's What Fatima Did as George
• The Old Red Lion's Fairytale
• Tristan Bates Theatre's Death of Cool as Richie
• Old Vic's 24 Hour Plays
• Old Fire Station's Some Voices as Ray
• Oxford Playhouse's Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano
• Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon's Boris Godunov as Grigoriy Otrepyev, later Dmitriy, the Pretender

Audio

• BBC Radio 4's Small Acts of Kindness as Charlie
• BBC Radio 4's Severed Threads as Jones
• Radio Static's The Minister of Chance as Sutu
• BBC's Legsy Gets a Break as John
• Big Finish Productions's The Year of Martha Jones as Mr Strand

References

External links

• Gethin Anthony at IMDb
• Interview with Shadowlocked.com
• Gethin Anthony on Facebook