Geraint Wyn Davies
Born	April 20, 1957 (1957-04-20) (age 52) Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Spouse(s)	Alana Guinn (1985-2006, divorced); Claire Lautier (Present)

Geraint Wyn Davies (pronunciation: gə-RÄNT , b. April 20, 1957, Swansea, Wales) is a Welsh-Canadian-American actor.

The son of a Welsh Congregationalist preacher, he moved with his family to Canada from Haverfordwest at the age of seven, where he attended Upper Canada College. His most famous role is that of vampire turned police detective Nick Knight on Forever Knight. Previous to this role, he had also played a vampire in Dracula: The Series.

His recent television roles include 24 in early 2006, as James Nathanson and ReGenesis in 2008 as Carleton Riddlemeyer. He also played cyber-terrorist David Kaydick in RoboCop: Prime Directives, and also portrayed maverick U.S. Air Force pilot Mike Rivers in the final season of Airwolf. He played Nick Haskell on the Canadian series Black Harbour, and Henry Breedlove in the second season of Slings and Arrows. His more recent films include Some Things That Stay (2004), The Wild Dogs (2002) and Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

He appeared several seasons with the Shaw and Stratford festivals. He recently appeared in New York City with Christopher Plummer in King Lear, and in Washington, D.C. in the title roles of both Cyrano de Bergerac and Richard III.^[1]

In 2008 he played Polonius in a Stratford Festival production of Hamlet and appeared as the King in Fuente Ovejuna for the same festival. From April to October 30, 2009 he again stars at the Stratford Festival in A Midsummer Night's Dream he plays Nick Bottom, in Julius Caesar he appears in the title role, and in Macbeth he plays the character of Duncan.

Contents 1 Stage 2 Audio 3 Film 4 Television 5 Directing 6 Music 7 Personal life 8 Citizenship 9 References 10 External links

[edit] Stage

Geraint was 12 when he was first bitten by the acting bug, appearing in a school production of "Lord of the Flies". His professional stage debut was made in 1976 in Quebec City when at 19 he appeared in "The Fantasticks", "Red Emma", and "A Midsummer's Night Dream". After Quebec, Geraint moved on to London's Centre Stage Theatre Company.

In England, he continued his stage career with the British Actors Theatre Company where he played the lead in "The Last Englishman". He then spent 2 seasons with Wales' leading theatre company, Theatre Clwyd, touring the United Kingdom in "Enemy of the People" and "Hamlet". It was his performance in "Hamlet" that led to the Regional Theatre Best Actor Award. He then spent a season with the Chichester Festival doing "Henry VIII".

He has performed at both the Shaw Festival and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada. Geraint gained a reputation as a gifted actor for his performances in such plays as "The Music Cure", "Candida", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "The Vortex", "Goodnight Disgrace", "Henry V" and "The Three Musketeers". He even sang his way through the Rogers and Hart musical "The Boys from Syracuse"! Other stage performances include "My Fat Friend" in Los Angeles and "Sleuth" with Patrick Macnee in Toronto.

In April of '96, Geraint appeared as Petruchio in a riotous version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of The Shrew" directed by Patrick Tucker of the Original Shakespeare Company. This three performance run was presented as Will's own players may have done - with sparse rehearsal, eclectic costuming, rotating roles and plenty of laughs.

In the Spring of '98, Geraint appeared in the Moises Kaufmann production, "Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. "Gross Indecency" earned the Garland Award for "Best Ensemble Cast from Backstage West" that year.

In August of '99, Geraint starred in a one man show written by the late Leon Pownall called "An Evening with Dylan Thomas" at the Atlantic Theatre Festival in Nova Scotia, Canada. The following summer he returned to the Atlantic Theatre Festival in the second of what would become Leon Pownall's Dylan Thomas Trilogy, "Dylan Thomas and Shakespeare: In the Envy Of Some Greatness". August 2001 saw the completion of Pownall's trilogy with "Stranger in Paradise".

The summer of 2002, Geraint returned to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Theatre's main stage in "My Fair Lady" starring as Henry Higgins, a role he shared with his good friend Colm Feore. He also reprised his role of Dylan Thomas at the Festival's Studio Theatre.

Geraint returned to the Atlantic Theatre Festival in August of 2003 to perform a one-act play "Hughie" by Eugene O'Neill. The evening was topped off by a hilarious presentation of "The Sermon" by David Mamet.

2004 saw Geraint appear at the Lincoln in New York as Edmund to Christopher Plummer's "King Lear". Following "Lear", he starred in the title role of "Cyrano" at The Shakespeare Theatre, in Washington, D.C. Audiences loved the play and almost every performance ended with a standing ovation. Geraint won the prestigious "Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Resident Play" for his portrayal of the tragic hero.

In 2005 Geraint brought us seven weeks of Dylan Thomas as he performed "Do Not Go Gentle" at the Arclight Theatre in New York City. While there he also did a reading of Tennessee Williams' letters at the New York Public Library and performed in a reading of Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End".

In September, he joined in a reading of R. L. Stevenson's "Treasure Island" in Washington, D.C. and in October, took part in a staged reading of a new play by Austin Pendleton entitled "H6R3" which blends Shakespeare's plays "Henry VI" and "Richard III".

In 2006, Geraint returned to The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. to perform Don Armado in Michael Kahn's 60's inspired version of Shakespeare's "Love's Labor's Lost". Following the American run the play moved to Stratford-Upon-Avon in England for a limited run. He was nominated but did not win The Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play for Don Armado. While in D.C., he also participated in a reading of "London Assurance" by Dion Boucicault.

Early in 2007 Geraint headlined as "Richard III" by William Shakespeare at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.. He, along with friend Brent Carver, are opening in Toronto's CanStage production of "The Elephant Man" in mid-October.

2008 saw Geraint’s return to Ontario’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival to appear in “Hamlet” (as Polonius) and “Fuente Ovejuna (as the King). He followed the Stratford season playing the Duke in Red Bull Theater’s production of “Women Beware Women” in New York City.

Geraint returns to Stratford for their 2009 season playing Duncan in “Macbeth”, Caesar in “Julius Caesar” and Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. He will perform “Do Not Go Gentle” for several weeks in New York City later in 2009. A performance in Stratford may also be staged.

[edit] Audio

Wyn Davies has voiced two audio books, "Great American Suspense: Five Unabridged Classics" and "Great Classic Hauntings: Six Unabridged Stories".

[edit] Film

Geraint made his film debut in "Deadly Harvest" in 1977 and has since appeared in many other films, among them "Paid Vacation" (1979), "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman" (1989), "Other Women's Children" (1993), "Ghost Mom" (1993), "Trilogy of Terror II" (1996), "Conspiracy of Fear" (1996), "RoboCop: Prime Directives" (2000) and "One of the Hollywood Ten" (2000), "American Psycho 2 - All American Girl" (2002) and "Hypercube 2" (2002) as well as appearing in "The Wild Dogs" (Best Canadian Feature - Atlantic Film Festival 2002). In 2002, Geraint also appeared in "Trudeau", a two-part movie for Canadian television and 2004 brought us "Some Things That Stay". In 2007, Geraint appeared in a cameo in "Nancy Drew" and filmed a made-for-TV movie titled "Post Mortem" for Lifetime.

[edit] Television

Geraint has been very busy on the television front. He was a regular in the cast of "To Serve and Protect", "The Judge" and in the final season of "Airwolf" (with Barry Van Dyke and Michele Scarabelli). He sunk his teeth into vampire roles twice - as Klaus in "Dracula; The Series" and as Nick Knight in "Forever Knight" (probably his most recognized role).

Since "Forever Knight", Geraint has appeared in several more series. He traveled to Nova Scotia to star in the critically acclaimed series, "Black Harbour" and journeyed from space as the evil alien "Zin" in the sci-fi series, "Tracker". He appeared as "Nathanson" in the fifth season of "24" and most recently appears in the Canadian sci-fi shows "Regenesis" (seasons 3 & 4) and "The Murdoch Mysteries" (two episodes as Arthur Conan Doyle!).

He has guest starred in episodes of "The Littlest Hobo", "Katts and Dog", "Highlander", "Kung-Fu: The Legend Continues", "The Outer Limits", "RoboCop: The Series", "The Hidden Room", "Matrix", "Diamonds", "Sweating Bullets", "1-800-Missing", and many more.

[edit] Directing

Geraint's directorial accomplishments include multiple episodes of "Forever Knight", "Black Harbour", "Pit Pony", "Power Play" and "North of 60".

In June 2000, Geraint took on the challenge of directing Oliver Mayer's "Joy of the Desolate" in Highland Park, IL. A "back-burner" project for Geraint is "Horatio Salt", a collection of four short films that he is producing and directing.

[edit] Music

Geraint's musical talent was first brought to prominence on "Forever Knight" where he actually played the piano in the loft and co-wrote a song for the "Baby Baby" episode. As a result he was featured in one of the selections on the first "Forever Knight" CD.

He has appeared in several musicals in his career, most notably, as Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady" in Stratford, Ontario.

He is a self-taught musician who produced a CD of his own works "Bar Talk" which is sold through his fan club with the proceeds going to a variety of charities such as Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, Childrens' Hospital Foundation in Washington D.C., the Atlantic Theatre Festival of Wolfville and The Stratford Festival's Shakespeare School (Stratford, Ontario).

[edit] Personal life

Geraint Wyn Davies was married to Canadian artist Alana Guinn from 1985 to 2006, with whom he has two children, daughter Pyper and son Galen. He has been involved with actress Claire Lautier for several years and they are currently living together.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Citizenship

On 13 June 2006, Davies became an American citizen,^[2], having been sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Speaking of the experience, Davies said "It was wonderful".^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Geraint Wyn Davies at the Internet Movie Database
• Geraint Wyn Davies at the Internet Broadway Database