Richard Brake

Richard Brake
Brake in July 2016.
Born	Richard Colin Brake (1964-11-30) 30 November 1964 (age 52) Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, Wales, United Kingdom
Residence	Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality	Welsh American
Education	Western Reserve Academy
Alma mater	Duke University
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993–present

Richard Colin Brake (born 30 November 1964) is a Welsh-American actor, known for portraying Joe Chill in Batman Begins and the Night King in Game of Thrones in the fourth and fifth season.

Brake was born in Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed and grew up in the US states of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Ohio. In 1967, he and his family immigrated to the United States, where they first settled in Atlanta. He attended Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, and trained in The Science of Acting under the technique's founder, and founding Principal of The Academy of the Science of Acting and Directing,Sam Kogan. He also studied acting in New York City at the Michael Chekhov Studio under Beatrice Straight.

Having appeared in numerous productions (including brief appearances in Cold Mountain and Munich), Brake achieved his first significant role in mainstream cinema being cast as Joe Chill in Christopher Nolan's 2005 film, Batman Begins. As in most versions of the Batman comic series, his character is the criminal who murdered Bruce Wayne's parents, effectively starting him on his path to becoming Batman.

Following this, Brake appeared as the warped Portman in Doom, with Karl Urban and The Rock. Brake also made a cameo appearance in the video for Muse's "Knights of Cydonia", playing a villainous sheriff in a strange futuristic western. He then played released convict Bobby DeWitt in The Black Dahlia, and appears in Hannibal Rising as Enrikas Dortlich, one of the war criminals who murders young Hannibal Lecter's sister.