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3->''"I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about."''
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5Iain Glen (born 24 June 1961 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish film, television, and stage actor.
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7He is best known for portraying Ser Jorah Mormont in ''Series/GameOfThrones''.
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9Glen is one of the few actors to play Theatre/{{Hamlet}} in a professional production at an age ''younger'' than the character's given age of 30, in ''Film/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' at age 29.
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12!!Film roles:
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14* 1988 ''Film/GorillasInTheMist'' as Brendan
15* 1990 ''Film/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' as Hamlet
16* 2000 ''Film/Paranoid2000'' as Stan
17* 2000 ''Beautiful Creatures'' as Tony
18* 2001 ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' as Manfred Powell
19* ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'' as Dr. Alexander Isaacs
20** 2004 ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse''
21** 2007 ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction''
22** 2017 ''Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter''
23* 2005 ''Film/ManToMan'' as Alexander Auchinleck
24* 2005 ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'' as UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart
25* 2007 ''Film/TheLastLegion'' as Orestes
26* 2009 ''Film/HarryBrown'' as S.I. Childs
27* 2009 ''Film/PopeJoan'' as The Village Priest
28* 2011 ''Film/TheIronLady'' as Alfred Roberts
29* 2013 ''Film/KickAss2'' as Uncle Ralph
30* 2015 ''Film/TheBadEducationMovie'' as Pasco
31* 2016 ''Film/EyeInTheSky'' as James Willett
32* 2017 ''Film/MyCousinRachel2017'' as Nick Kendall
33* 2020 ''Literature/BlackBeauty'' as John Manly
34* 2021 ''Film/{{The Colony|2021}}'' as Gibson
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36!!Television roles:
37* 1986 ''Series/{{Taggart}}'' as Scott Adair
38* 1999 ''Series/WivesAndDaughters'' as Mr. Preston
39* 2000 ''Series/GlasgowKiss'' as Stuart Morrison
40* 2008 ''City of Vice'' as John Fielding (replaced by Creator/JulianGlover in the browser game tie-in ''Bow Street Runner'')
41* 2009 ''[[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl The Diary of Anne Frank]]'' as Otto Frank
42* 2009 ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' as Luke Slade
43* 2010 ''Series/DoctorWho'' as Octavian
44* 2010 ''Series/{{Spooks}}'' as Vaughan Edwards
45* 2010 ''Series/JackTaylor'' as [[ProtagonistTitle Jack Taylor]]
46* 2011 ''Series/StrikeBack'' as Crawford
47* 2011 ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' as Sir Richard Carlisle
48* 2011-2017, 2019 ''Series/GameOfThrones'' as Ser Jorah Mormont
49* 2012 ''Series/TheHollowCrown'' as Warwick
50* 2012 ''Series/{{Haven}}'' as Roland Holloway
51* 2013 ''Series/RipperStreet'' as Colonel Madoc Faulkner
52* 2013 ''Series/{{Borgia}}'' as Girolamo Savonarola
53* 2013 ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' as Doctor Willoughby
54* 2016 ''{{Series/Cleverman}}'' as Jarrod Slade
55* 2019, 2021 ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' as [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]]
56* 2023 ''WesternAnimation/CastlevaniaNocturne'' as the Old Man, [[spoiler:Juste Belmont]]
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58!!Tropes & Trivia in his works:
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60* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Glen was set to play Dan Dreiberg in the early 2000s project of film adaptation of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', and the project didn't materialize. [[https://youtu.be/hSmoOZ0BhE8 A test footage exists]], however.

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