Who is Iain Glen?
Iain Glen is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his role as Ser Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones and also as Dr. Alexander Isaacs in the Resident Evil film series. Since 2019, he has been portraying Bruce Wayne in the DC show Titans.
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Personal Life
The actor has been married twice. He was married to Susannah Harker between 1993 and 2004. In 2017, he married Charlotte Emmerson. He is a father of three.
Professional Life
Glen had his first TV role in 1983 in Taggart and debuted in film in 1988 with Paris by Night and Gorillas in the Mist. In 1990, he got the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival for Silent Scream. He was also cast as Hamlet in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, another acclaimed film.
He appeared in The Blue Room opposite Nicole Kidman and received an Olivier Award nomination. This was followed by a role in The Soul Keeper and other dramas.
He first appeared in the role of Dr. Alexander Isaacs in Resident Evil: Apocalypse in 2004. He would reprise the role in 2007 and 2016 in two of the sequels.
In 2009, it was announced that Glen would appear as Ser Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones. The series was a huge hit and made him better known internationally.
In 2010, he appeared on Doctor Who and Downton Abbey. In 2010, he also began playing Jack Taylor in the Irish TV crime series that would continue until the present.
2012 saw him appear in Prisoners’ Wives, a BBC adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo on the radio, and on The Hollow Crown.
He starred in Fortune’s Fool between 2013 and 2014 but was forced to withdraw early due to an illness.
In 2019, it was announced that Glen would portray Bruce Wayne in Titans, giving a unique personality to this character that has appeared across mediums.
In 2021, he appeared in the sci-fi film Tides and also in the TV project Reyka. In addition, he is scheduled to appear in the upcoming project The Rig.
Trivia
This actor has had quite a few roles in projects of a fantastical bent. Specifically, he has appeared as a villainous character in two video game adaptations, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and three films of the Resident Evil franchise. He also continues playing Bruce Wayne/Batman and was Ser Jorah Mormont in Game of Thrones.
His brother is a theater director, and Iain has appeared in multiple acclaimed stage projects.
He is the second non-American actor to portray Bruce Wayne. He is Scottish, and Christian Bale was English.
The actor is known for portraying distinguished characters and has a distinctive deep voice that helps with those kinds of roles.
Iain Glen has appeared in many Shakespearean roles on stage, film, and television, being featured in Macbeth, Henry V, The Hollow Crown, King Lear, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Coriolanus, and beyond.
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