Tim McInnerny


Tim McInnerny is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on television and stage. Early in his career he featured as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the Blackadder series.

Early life

McInnerny was born in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan and William Ronald McInnerny. He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme, and Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, a grammar school in Stroud, and studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, matriculating in 1976 after taking a gap year backpacking around the world.

Career

One of McInnerny's first roles was the bumbling aristocrat Lord Percy Percy in The Black Adder during the early 1980s. He reprised his role in the second series Blackadder II but declined to do so for the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode. The following year, he returned to the cast for the fourth series Blackadder Goes Forth as Captain Kevin Darling, a character significantly different from Lord Percy.
McInnerny has also starred in various films including Wetherby, 101 Dalmatians, where he was reunited with Blackadder co-star Hugh Laurie, and Notting Hill, written by Blackadder creator Richard Curtis. He also had a minor but significant role in the highly acclaimed 1985 BBC TV serial Edge of Darkness as Emma Craven's boyfriend Terry Shields. Recent TV appearances include Law & Order: UK as a man wrongly convicted of murdering his daughter, and New Tricks. In 2016, McInnerny joined the cast of the HBO series Game of Thrones in Season 6 as Lord Robett Glover.

Theatre

He played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1990 West End production of The Rocky Horror Show. His performance can be heard on the soundtrack album of this production.
He was cast in Pravda alongside Anthony Hopkins.
In summer 2007, he played Iago in Othello at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London.

Radio

In 2001, he played Geoffrey Pyke in the radio play Habbakuk of Ice by Steve Walker.
He portrayed Odysseus in the 2004 BBC audio adaptation of The Odyssey by Simon Armitage.
In 2010, he played Tiberius in a radio adaptation of I, Claudius.
In 2017, he played Allan Quatermain in a two-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of King Solomon's Mines.

Other

In 1989, he co-starred with Kate Bush in the music video for her song "This Woman's Work". He also appeared in the Westlife video for "Uptown Girl", along with Claudia Schiffer, Robert Bathurst, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ioan Gruffudd and James Wilby.
In 2007 McInnerny spoke candidly about his love of ITV sitcoms, after receiving criticism for his views expressed on the BBC cult show:
Since 2012, McInnerny has also been a patron of the Norwich Film Festival.

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

Selected theatre performances