Who is Holding star Conleth Hill?
CONLETH Hill is starring in the TV adaptation of Graham Norton's 2017 debut novel Holding.
The actor is best known for playing Lord Varys in the popular TV series Game Of Thrones.
Who is Conleth Hill?
Conleth Seamus Eoin Croiston Hill is a 57-year-old actor from Northern Ireland.
He was born in Ballycastle in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and has three siblings, two brothers and a sister.
Ronan, the youngest, is a sound engineer who has won four Emmy Awards for his sound mixing on Game Of Thrones.
Conleth attended St MacNissi's College, Garron Tower, and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1989.
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What TV shows has Conleth Hill been in?
Hill made his TV debut in Boon in 1988.
Since then he has gone on to appear in some of Britain's most popular shows including Casualty, The Bill and Doc Martin.
He had regular roles as Roache in Blue Heaven (1994) and as Jared in The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle (2007).
In 2011, he starred as Lord Varys in Game Of Thrones, before his character was executed in 2019.
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Although some actors resent being forever associated with a single TV show, Hill said it's a "small price to pay" for being part of such a phenomenon.
Speaking to , he revealed: “I'm used to ‘Conleth Hill the Game of Thrones [star]’, it's a double-barrelled name.
“But that's a small price to pay for being associated with something so brilliant. And I'm not gonna deny it or say, ‘Well, no, I'm on to something else now’.
"I'll always be associated with it until they do a remake. And then it'll be somebody else. And that's the way it goes.
"But I'm grateful for all the work.”
In 2013 he joined the Meghan Markle series, Suits, where he played corporate lawyer Edward Darby.
He played Superintendent O'Kelly in Dublin Murders in 2019, Mendel Liebermann in Vienna Blood from 2019-2021 and was Alan Conway in 2022's Magpie Murders.
And in 2022 he's also starring in Graham Norton's four-part TV drama, Holding as Sergeant PJ Collins and as Dr Alwyn Thomas in Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
His movie works includes To Olivia (2021), Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (2011), and Whatever Works (2009).
Is Conleth Hill married and does he have children?
By the looks of it, Hill is currently single and does not have any children.
Like most celebrities, he tries to keep his personal and love life private and out of the public eye.
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His Instagram, which currently has over seven thousand followers is dedicated to his acting career, with no glimpse into his personal life.
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