Hanan Tobias Simpson Menzies is an English stage, television and film actor. He is best known for playing Frank and Jonathan \”Black Jack\” Randall in STARZ’s Outlander. In 2013, he appeared as Edmure Tully, the heir to House Tully of Riverrun, in HBO’s Game of Thrones.
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Hanan Tobias Simpson Menzies is an English stage, television and film actor. He is best known for playing Frank and Jonathan \”Black Jack\” Randall in STARZ’s Outlander, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. He also portrayed Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the third and fourth seasons of Netflix’s series The Crown. In 2013, he appeared as Edmure Tully, the heir to House Tully of Riverrun, in HBO’s Game of Thrones. He was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the son of Gillian, a teacher, and Peter Menzie, a BBC radio producer. He has one younger brother, Luke, who is a solicitor. He attended the Perry Court Rudolf Steiner School in Canterbury, Kent, where he was trained in the Steiner System, which includes movement, singing and instrumental music. He went on to attend Deborah Moody’s Year Out Drama Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, eventually graduating with a BA Degree in Acting. His first professional television role, beginning in 1998, was an eleven episode stint on BBC’s long running medical drama Casualty. He next appeared as William Elliot in ITV’s production of Jane Austen’s classic Persuasion, and Derrick Sington in Channel 4’s feature-length drama The Relief of Belsen, which chronicled the British liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp at the end of WWII.
From 2005 to 2007, he portrayed Marcus Junius Brutus, Julius Caesar’s friend and later co-assassin, in the HBOBBC historical drama series Rome. In 2008, he starred in two stylistically different mini-series, in an episode entitled The Empress’s New Clothes, and the series finale of BBC’s Bonekickers, which followed a team of British archaeologists as they investigated mysteries and conspiracy theories surrounding historical artifacts. The following year, he featured in a series four episode of ITV’s Law & Order: UK, a British adaptation of Dick Wolf’s long-running American procedural franchise. In 2011, he played tabloid journalist Ross McGovern in BBC Two’s seven partmini-series The Shadow Line, opposite Stephen Rea and Chiwetel Ea. In 2012, he would go on to feature in a political satire episode of The Thick of It, an episode of BBC Two’s political satire The State, and three episodes of BBC One’s spy drama Spooks. That same year he would become a prosecuting attorney in The York, who had become a fallen angel who had had to become an attorney in York, England. The final appearance in the same year would be in The Thick Of It, which was based upon George R. R. Martin’s fantasy book series The Rulers of River Run. He would then appear in the final two episodes of the BBC’s medical satire Getting On, and episodes of The Secret State.
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