Nathaniel Parker
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Parker at the 2015 Whatsonstage.com Awards
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| Born |
18 May 1962 London, England |
| Alma mater | London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Spouse(s) | Anna Patrick (m. 1992) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Nathaniel Parker (born 18 May 1962) is an English stage and screen actor best known for playing Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley in the BBC crime drama series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
Nathaniel Parker was born in London, the youngest son of the businessman, and one-time British Rail chairman, Sir Peter Parker and Jillian, Lady Parker, a GP, and expert gardener, who wrote The Purest of Pleasures: Creation of a Romantic Garden. He has two older brothers, Alan, who is chairman of Brunswick Group, Oliver, who is a film director, and a sister, Lucy. Parker joined the National Youth Theatre, and after training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986.
Parker portrayed Bassanio in Peter Hall's 1989 production of The Merchant of Venice in both London and on Broadway, co-starring with Dustin Hoffman.
In 2000, he played Bob in Rupert Goold's West End revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow.
Parker returned to the stage in 2013 for the Westend production of The Audience, starring Dame Helen Mirren, written by Peter Morgan (The Queen) and directed by Stephen Daldry. The play ran for four months at the Gielgud Theatre in London. It was also transmitted worldwide via National Theatre Live and was seen by more than 110,000 viewers in the UK and USA alone.
Parker played King Henry VIII in Wolf Hall (and Bring up the Bodies) for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2014, earning a 2015 Olivier Award for best actor in a supporting role for the London production and appearing in New York City when the show moved on to Broadway, where his performance received a Tony Award nomination.
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