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Giles Terera

Giles trained at Mountview Theatre School.
Theatre credits include: HAMLET at Chichester, DR STRANGELOVE at the Noël Coward Theatre, PASSING STRANGE at the Young Vic, THE POWER OF THE SAIL Menier Chocolate Factory, CLYDES at the Donmar Warehouse, THE MEANING OF ZONG at the Bristol Old Vic and Barbican Theatre, OTHELLO and BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY at The National Theatre, BLACK MATTER at Crazy Coqs, ROSMERSHOLM at the Duke of York’s Theatre,  HAMILTON at the Victoria Palace Theatre (Winner, Best Actor in a Muscial 2018 Olivier Awards) , The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Donmar Warehouse, The Merchant of Venice at the Globe Theatre and international tour, Pure Imagination at the St James Theatre, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the National Theatre, King John at the Globe Theatre and UK Tour,  The Book Of Mormon at the Prince of Wales Theatre, The Tempest for Trevor Nunn at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Hamlet and also Death & The Kings Horseman at the National Theatre, Don’t You Leave Me Here at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Playing Christopher Molomo in the Abbey Theatre Dublin’s production of Playboy of the Western World. Gary Coleman in Avenue Q at the Noel Coward Theatre, playing Sammy Davis Junior in The Rat Pack at The Strand Theatre, Quickly Robinson in Jailhouse Rock at The Piccadilly Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth, Luther in 125th Street at the Shaftesbury Theatre and Mr Jefferson in Rent at the Prince of Wales Theatre. You Don’t Kiss at Stratford Circus, Up On The Roof at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Ariel in the world tour of The Tempest with the RSC, Six Degrees of Separation at the Sheffield Crucible, Generations of the dead at the Young Vic, Bill Shakespeare’s Italian Job at the Gilded Balloon and the Playbox Theatre Warwick, Demon Headmaster and The Animals of Farthing Wood at the Pleasance Theatre.

Film and TV appearances include; FRANK AND LOUIS; DEATH OF ENGLAND: DELROY, Maxx, Flack, The Current War directed by Alfonso Gomez Rejon, London Boulevard directed by William Monahan, Horrible Histories, and Doctors for the BBC.

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