"I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about."
Iain Glen (born 24 June 1961 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish film, television, and stage actor.
He is best known for portraying Ser Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones.
Glen is one of the few actors to play Hamlet in a professional production at an age younger than the character's given age of 30, in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at age 29.
Film roles:
- 1988 Gorillas in the Mist as Brendan
- 1990 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead as Hamlet
- 2000 Paranoid (2000) as Stan
- 2000 Beautiful Creatures as Tony
- 2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider as Manfred Powell
- Resident Evil Film Series as Dr. Alexander Isaacs
- 2005 Man to Man as Alexander Auchinleck
- 2005 Kingdom of Heaven as Richard the Lionheart
- 2007 The Last Legion as Orestes
- 2009 Harry Brown as S.I. Childs
- 2009 Pope Joan as The Village Priest
- 2011 The Iron Lady as Alfred Roberts
- 2013 Kick-Ass 2 as Uncle Ralph
- 2015 The Bad Education Movie as Pasco
- 2016 Eye in the Sky as James Willett
- 2017 My Cousin Rachel (2017) as Nick Kendall
- 2020 Black Beauty as John Manly
- 2021 The Colony as Gibson
Television roles:
- 1986 Taggart as Scott Adair
- 1999 Wives and Daughters as Mr. Preston
- 2000 Glasgow Kiss as Stuart Morrison
- 2008 City of Vice as John Fielding (replaced by Julian Glover in the browser game tie-in Bow Street Runner)
- 2009 The Diary of Anne Frank as Otto Frank
- 2009 Law & Order: UK as Luke Slade
- 2010 Doctor Who as Octavian
- 2010 Spooks as Vaughan Edwards
- 2010 Jack Taylor as Jack Taylor
- 2011 Strike Back as Crawford
- 2011 Downton Abbey as Sir Richard Carlisle
- 2011-2017, 2019 Game of Thrones as Ser Jorah Mormont
- 2012 The Hollow Crown as Warwick
- 2012 Haven as Roland Holloway
- 2013 Ripper Street as Colonel Madoc Faulkner
- 2013 Borgia as Girolamo Savonarola
- 2013 Poirot as Doctor Willoughby
- 2016 Cleverman as Jarrod Slade
- 2019, 2021 Titans as Bruce Wayne
Tropes & Trivia in his works:
- What Could Have Been: Glen was set to play Dan Dreiberg in the early 2000s project of film adaptation of Watchmen, and the project didn't materialize. A test footage exists
, however.
