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John Macmillan

John Macmillan

Actor

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Biography

John Macmillan is a British actor. Known for House of the Dragon (2022), The Nevers (2021) and King Lear (2018). THEATRE includes The Lady from the Sea at The Bridge; Phaedra at the National Theatre; The Lover / The Collection in the West End; Killer at Shoreditch Town Hall; Yerma (also at Park Avenue Armory, New York), The Member of the Wedding and In the Red and Brown Water at the Young Vic; The Homecoming at Trafalgar Studios; Children's Children and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida; Piranha Heights at Soho; Cymbeline for Cheek by Jowl (world tour); Macbeth at the Royal Exchange Manchester; and Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse and on Broadway (for the last two he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award). TELEVISION includes Surface, One Day, The Cleaner, The Burning Girls, The Great, Ghosts, Extraordinary, House of the Dragon, The Nevers, Famalam, King Lear, Hang Ups, Back, Kiss Me First, Ordinary Lies, The Windsors, Chewing Gum, Hoff the Record, Critical, and Silk. FILM includes The Woman in Cabin 10, The Scurry, Jay Kelly, The People We Hate at the Wedding, Maleficent, The Dark Knight Rises, and Hanna.

Acted in 47

2020s

  1. 2026
  2. The Oresteia

    Jerome

  3. 2025
  4. Dating in Your 20s

    The Cynic

  5. 2024

    Up the Catalogue

    Daniel Fortescue

  6. Seize Them!

    King Guthrum

  7. 2023

    The Burning Girls

    Mike Sudduth · 6 episodes

  8. National Theatre Live: Phaedra

    Eric

  9. 2022
  10. Bus Girl

    Mr. Relaxation (voice)

  11. 2021
  12. 2020

    Tumbleweed

    Cooper Cat (voice)

  13. Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait

    Ben (segment "Mine")

2010s

  1. 2019

    Dial M for Middlesbrough

    Chad

  2. 2018

    Hang Ups

    Adebowale 'Abs' Walters · 3 episodes

  3. 2017

    Mine

    Ben

  4. Back

    Julian · 6 episodes

  5. National Theatre Live: Yerma

    Victor

  6. Carnage: Swallowing the Past

    Troye King Jones

  7. 2015
  8. Critical

    Staff Nurse Justin Costello · 13 episodes

  9. 2014
  10. 2012

    Stars in Shorts

    Jason

  11. 2011

    Friend Request Pending

    Jason

  12. 2010

No release date

  1. The Scurry

    Movie