Lloyd Owen
Richard Lloyd Owen is a British actor. Trained at the National Youth Theatre and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, he portrayed Indiana Jones's father Professor Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles between 1992 and 1993 and Paul Bowman-MacDonald in the BBC Scotland series Monarch of the Glen from 2002 to 2005. He played the role of solicitor William Heelis in the film Miss Potter. His most recent TV role was playing the US president in You, Me and the Apocalypse on Sky.
Early life
Owen was born on 14 April 1966 at the Charing Cross Hospital in Westminster, London, England. He was brought up in London, although both of his parents were Welsh – his father, actor Glyn Owen, was from Caernarfon, Gwynedd, in north-west Wales, while his mother, actress Patricia Mort, was from Morriston in Swansea, Wales. His sister is the actress Cathy Owen.Owen said he grew up around "a mob of entertaining, troublesome, fascinating" actors involved in challenging the Lord Chamberlain during some of the most exciting days of a very controversial Royal Court Theatre. When he was at Highgate School, because his father was an actor, his teachers thought that he should be able to act, too. However, at first he was not interested. "I was always made to read plays at school but I never wanted to. Then I was made to take part in a school play and I didn't want to do that either but I started to get approval for my acting. I was reasonably academic, good at sport, but somehow with the acting, people said 'that was fantastic'. So I thought,'Ok, I'll carry on doing this for a bit and the next thing you know that's how I make my living these days".
At 16, Owen went straight from school to the National Youth Theatre, and subsequently received some formal training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. While there he managed to get an acting job and an Equity card, but when he told the principal of RADA he needed a term off, the request was denied and he was expelled from the Academy after just a year. Fortunately, Owen landed a job with Cheek by Jowl and followed the theatre company on tour around the world performing Shakespeare plays. Owen has said that he wished he had gone to university, and that he had been "in too much of a rush".
Career
Owen played Professor Henry Jones, Sr., father of Indiana Jones, in eight episodes of the TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in 1992 and 1993. Subsequently, he appeared in 25 episodes of the popular BBC Scotland series Monarch of the Glen as Paul Bowman-MacDonald between 2002 and 2005. He also played Professor Jon Ford in the BBC Northern Ireland series The Innocence Project ; however, as a result of poor reviews and falling viewership, the programme was pulled from the schedules in the middle of the first series and no further episodes were filmed.Owen's film career has included appearances in short films, and supporting roles in The Republic of Love , which was based on a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, and in Miss Potter . However, Owen's first love has always been the theatre. Early in his professional career he was involved in the Cheek by Jowl productions of Philoctetes and the Shakespeare plays Macbeth, The Tempest and Twelfth Night. Owen's break on stage was playing Nick in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Howard Davies, at the Almeida Theatre in London in 1996. Owen studied the play during his A-levels, and it is his favourite play. Other highlights of his stage career include playing Dan in Closer by Patrick Marber in 1998 and George in The York Realist by Peter Gill in 2002. Critics praised his performance in the latter play as "astonishing in its power, throttled fury and sadness" and "superb, richly voiced", and called him "a fast-rising star".
Owen is a baritone, and speaks fluent French.
Personal life
Owen is married to actress and artist Juliette Mole, and they have two children.Selected work
| Medium | Year of appearance | Production | Role |
| Theatre | The Passport - Young Vic, London | ||
| Theatre | The Parquet Floor - Young Vic, London | ||
| Theatre | Philoctetes - | ||
| Theatre | The Tempest - | Ferdinand | |
| Theatre | Macbeth - | Donalbain | |
| Theatre | 1986 | Twelfth Night - Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon | Sebastian |
| Theatre | 1989 | Hamlet - Haymarket Theatre, Leicester | Laertes |
| Television | 1992–1993 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Professor Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. |
| Television | 1993 | All in the Game | Darren Matthews |
| Television | 1994 | The Cinder Path | Charlie MacFell |
| Theatre | 1994 | Henry VI, Part 3 - The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon | Edward IV |
| Theatre | 1995 | Our Boys - Donmar Warehouse, London | Joe |
| Theatre | Grab the Dog - The Studio, Royal National Theatre, London | - | |
| Theatre | 1996 | East Lynne - Greenwich Theatre, London | Captain Francis Levison |
| Theatre | 1996 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Almeida Theatre, London and Aldwych Theatre, London | Nick |
| Television | 1996 | Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father | Professor Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. |
| Television | 1998 | Get Real | Adam |
| Theatre | 1998 | Closer Lyric Theatre, London | Dan |
| Theatre | 1999 | Morphic Resonance - Donmar Warehouse, London | Wallace |
| Film | 1999 | Between Dreams | Stephen Tredre |
| Television | 1999 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure | Professor Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. |
| Television | 2000 | Hearts and Bones | James |
| Theatre | 2000 | The Way of the World - Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester | Mirabell |
| Theatre | 2000 | Julius Caesar - Young Vic, London | Brutus |
| Theatre | 2001 | Edward II - Crucible Theatre, Sheffield | Mortimer the Younger |
| Television | 2001 | Des del Balcó | Patrick |
| Television | 2002 | Coupling | James |
| Television | 2002–2005 | Monarch of the Glen | Paul Bowman-MacDonald |
| Television | 2002 | Dead Gorgeous | Vic |
| Film | 2002 | The Seasons Alter | Oberon |
| Theatre | 2002 | The York Realist - Royal Court Theatre, London | George |
| Theatre | 2003 | Iphigenia - Crucible Theatre, Sheffield | Agamemnon |
| Film | 2003 | The Republic of Love | Peter |
| Film | 2004 | Get the Picture | Jake Wells |
| Theatre | 2004 | Clouds - Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge, and Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford | Owen Shorter |
| Theatre | 2005 | Paul - Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London | Peter |
| Film | 2006 | Miss Potter | William Heelis |
| Television | 2006–2007 | The Innocence Project | Professor Jon Ford |
| Television | 2007 | Viva Laughlin | Ripley Holden |
| Television | 2009 | Taking The Flak | , Jack |
| Film | 2011 | Apollo 18 | Nathan Walker |
| Theatre | 2012 | The Bodyguard | Frank Farmer |
| Television | 2012 | Fairly Legal | Robin Archer |
| Television | 2014 | The Originals | Ansel |
| Television | 2015 | Midsomer murders episode 17.4 "A Vintage Murder" | Louis Paynton |
| Television | 2016 | Death in Paradise episode 5.1 | Dr Sam Blake |
| Theatre | 2016 | The End of Longing | Joseph |
| Film | 2018 | Thugs of Hindostan | Robert Clive |