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Timothy Dalton

Timothy Dalton
Timothy Dalton 1987.jpg
Dalton in 1987
Born (1946-03-21) 21 March 1946 (age 70) or (1944-03-21) 21 March 1944 (age 72)
Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
Nationality British
Occupation Actor
Years active 1964–present
Partner(s) Vanessa Redgrave (1971–1986)
Oksana Grigorieva (1995–2003)
Children 1

Timothy Peter Dalton (born 21 March 1946 or 1944) is an English actor. He is best known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989), as well as Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre (1983) and Rhett Butler in the television miniseries Scarlett (1994).

Dalton was born in Colwyn Bay, Conwy, North Wales, to an English father, who was a captain in the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War and was an advertising executive at the time of his son's birth, and an American mother of Italian and Irish descent. Before his fourth birthday, the family moved back to England to Belper in Derbyshire. While in Belper, he attended the Herbert Strutt Grammar School. As a teenager, he was a member of the Air Training Corps at LXX (Croft & Culcheth) Squadron. He decided to become an actor at 16 after seeing a production of Macbeth and got a role in a production of the play at The Old Vic. He left school in 1964 to enrol in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and tour with the National Youth Theatre. Dalton did not complete his RADA studies, leaving the academy in 1966 to join the ensemble of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

Dalton quickly moved to television, working mainly with the BBC, and in 1968 made his film debut as Philip II of France in The Lion in Winter. This was the first of several period dramas, which included a remake of Wuthering Heights in 1970 in which he portrayed Heathcliff. After a few more films, Dalton took a break in 1971 to concentrate on the theatre, performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company and other troupes throughout the world. In 1975, Dalton and Vivien Merchant headed the cast of a revival of Noël Coward's The Vortex.


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