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Name: Linus Roache
Birthplace: Manchester, England
Birthdate: February 1, 1964
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown
Height: 5'10"

Best Known as: Father Greg Pilkington in Priest

Possessing a wistful handsomness and vulnerable charisma, British actor Linus Roache first gained recognition and controversy as a gay Catholic priest in Antonia Bird's 1994 Priest. A native of Manchester, where he was born in 1964, Roache is the son of actor William Roache, best known for his long-running role on the popular TV series Coronation Street. It was on that show that the younger Roache made his debut at the age of nine, playing his father's son. Following his debut, he spent much of the next decade on stage, performing with the likes of the Royal Shakespeare Company. When he returned to the screen, it was in Iain Softley's adaptation of Henry James' The Wings of the Dove. Roache won acclaim for his complex portrayal of Merton Densher, an impoverished journalist who becomes caught up in a disastrous scheme involving his girlfriend and a dying heiress. The film itself was roundly praised and helped put Roache back in the spotlight that he had rejected just two years earlier. The actor could subsequently be seen doing work in a number of diverse films, including Shot Through the Heart, which cast him as a Yugoslavian marksman caught up in the horrors of war; and The Venice Project, a drama in which he played both a 17th-century Italian count and a member of the 20th-century California art world.

Filmography:
"The Ten Commandments" (2006) (mini) TV Series (filming) Aaron
Find Me Guilty (2005) Sean Kierney
Twelve and Holding (2005) Jim Carges
Batman Begins (2005) Thomas Wayne
The Forgotten (2004) A Friendly Man
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Purifier
Beyond Borders (2003) Henry Bauford
Blind Flight (2003) John McCarthy
RFK (2002) (TV) Robert F. Kennedy
The Gathering Storm (2002) (TV) Ralph Wigram
Hart's War (2002) Capt. Peter A. Ross
Pandaemonium (2000) Samuel Coleridge
Best (2000) Denis Law
Siam Sunset (1999) Perry
The Venice Project (1999) Count Jacko/Count Giaccomo
Shot Through the Heart (1998) (TV) Vlado
The Wings of the Dove (1997) Merton Densher
"Seaforth" (1994) TV Series Bob Longman
Priest (1994) Father Greg Pilkington
"How High the Moon" (1994) (mini) TV Series
"Shakespeare: The Animated Tales" (1992) (mini) TV Series (voice) Romeo Montague
Link (1986) (uncredited)
No Surrender (1985) Ulster Boy
"Coronation Street" (1960) TV Series Peter Barlow (IV) (1975)

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