Guy Henry

Guy Henry (born 17 October 1960) is an English actor whose roles include Henrik Hanssen in Holby City, Pius Thicknesse in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2, Gaius Cassius Longinus in Rome and Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One.

Henry was born on 17 October 1960 in London.

He attended Homefield School and then Brockenhurst College in Hampshire where he took A levels.

He trained at RADA (1979–81).

In 1982, he took the title role in ITV's Young Sherlock Holmes series, playing Holmes as a teenager (though Henry was by then nearly 22).

He had previously played the same character in the 1986 film Lady Jane.

In 1987, Henry appeared in the episode "Rumpole and the Official Secret" from Season 4 of Rumpole of the Bailey.

In the early 1990s, he played the acerbic, demonic Dr Walpurgis in The Vault of Horror, a BBC Halloween special.

His make-up was provided by Hellraiser veteran Geoff Portass.

Henry also introduced a few series of cult horror films in several BBC One Friday night horror seasons (with a name change to "Dr Terror"), with scripted introductions written by horror novelist and film historian Kim Newman.

He appeared in the 1996 schools series Look and Read: Spywatch, and in ITV's 1996 adaptation of Emma.

In 1998 he appeared in the medical soap opera Peak Practice, and in two episodes of The Grand.

He appeared in four episodes of the 2001 series of the medical soap Doctors.

He played the part of Corporal Ludovic in the C4 presentation of Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy (2001) alongside the then relatively unknown Daniel Craig.

He has also worked with Cheek by Jowl, Theatre Set Up and the National Theatre (including Turgenev in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia in 2002).

He has also frequently been cast as a conspiratorial and/or Machiavellian civil servant, as in Fields of Gold (2002) and Foyle's War (in a 2003 episode).

He played the title role in Channel 4's 2004 documentary Who Killed Thomas Becket? (a "promotion" from his role as Tempter in the RSC Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot's version of the same story); and was a deportment tutor and a shoemaker respectively in the BBC's adaptation of The Young Visiters [sic] (2003) and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (Christmas 2004).

In 2004 he appeared in Waking the Dead series 3 "Multistorey" as Guy Reynolds.

He was an acclaimed Earl of Leicester in the 2005–06 Donmar Warehouse production of Schiller's Mary Stuart, which transferred to the West End.

In 2005 he appeared in the feature-length ITV drama Colditz and had a recurring role in Extras, which continued into a few episodes of the comedy's second season.

He also had a small role in the ITV drama, Trial & Retribution IX: The Lovers.

His main role that year, however, was as Cassius (fictionalised version of Gaius Longinus Cassius) in the last two or three episodes of the first series of HBO/BBC series Rome.

In 2006, he played a lawyer in Midsomer Murders, appeared with Michael Sheen in Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (as Hugh Paddick), and featured in the first, fifth and sixth episodes of the first series of The Chase (in another role he reprised in 2007).

He reprised this role in the second series (broadcast 2007) until the character's death at the Battle of Philippi in the episode Philippi.

His friend Sarah Kennedy (see ) commented that this was a natural progression for one with his "lean and hungry look" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 2.I).

In 2007 he appeared as the UK's UN Ambassador in The Trial of Tony Blair and appeared in the seventh episode of the second series of Hotel Babylon.

Also in 2007 he appeared on radio as Noël Coward in the Afternoon Play of 4 May 2007, "The Master and Mrs Tucker" by Roy Apps, which told of Coward's friendship with Edith Nesbit (played by Ann Bell).

From December 2008 to March 2009 he appeared as Andrew Aguecheek (alongside Derek Jacobi) in the Donmar: West End production of Twelfth Night.

In 2008, he appeared in HBO's John Adams as Jonathan Sewall, Massachusetts's Attorney General, as Mr Collins in Lost in Austen, and in Series 7, Episode 4 of Spooks.

In April and May 2009 he appeared in Hay Fever at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

In 2009 he appeared in Margaret and in Lewis (Series 4, Episode 1).

Also in 2009 he appeared in several episodes of Ricky Gervais' BBC comedy Extras as the commissioning editor of BBC Comedy.

In 2010 he appeared as a lawyer in an episode of The IT Crowd titled "Something Happened".

In October 2010 he joined the regular cast of Holby City as surgeon Henrik Hanssen, a role he played for three years until his departure in October 2013.

In October 2014, it was announced that he would rejoin the cast of Holby City.

In October 2014, he appeared as the Inspector in the BBC 6-part drama Our Zoo.

In February 2015, Henry was announced as a public supporter of Chapel Lane Theatre Company based in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Henry first appeared on stage as a footman in amateur dramatic society Highcliffe Charity Players' production of Cinderella at age 11.

He is now the president of HCP and continues to support their productions.

Henry's main work has been with the Royal Shakespeare Company, including the following roles: