Tobias Menzies is an English stage, television and film actor.
He is best known for his TV roles as Brutus on Rome and as Edmure Tully on Game of Thrones.
Early years Menzies was born in North London, England
the son of a teacher and a BBC producer.
Menzies attended the liberal Frensham Heights School near Farnham in Surrey at the same
time as Hattie Morahan and Jim Sturgess.
He went on to attend Stratford-upon-Avon College's "Year-out" drama course in 1993–94.
He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was trained in the Steiner System,
which includes movement, singing and musical instrumentation.
Career Menzies worked with the Spontaneity Shop,
a British improv comedy company.
He began his TV and film career in some of British television's most popular series,
including Foyle's War, Midsomer Murders and Casualty.
He also appeared in A Very Social Secretary directed by Jon Jones, which launched UK Channel
4's spin-off station, More4.
He is best known to international audiences for his starring role as Marcus Junius Brutus,
Julius Caesar's friend and later co-assassin, in the award-winning HBO/BBC epic series Rome.
Menzies had a major role in The Low Down with Aidan Gillen, and was featured in the 2006
"reboot" of the James Bond film franchise, Casino Royale, as M's aide, Villiers.
He has worked extensively on the stage, with credits including the young teacher Irwin
in Alan Bennett's The History Boys, and Michael Blakemore's West End production of Three Sisters
for which he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award.
Of his role in The History Boys, one reviewer wrote:
There is a remarkable performance, too, from Tobias Menzies as the slick supply-teacher
historian, who believes academic success is merely a matter of tricks and spin.
But Menzies also discovers a surprisingly attractive vulnerability in the character
I missed the first time around.
Menzies played the title role in Rupert Goold's production of Hamlet, at the Royal Theatre,
Northampton to an appreciative critical reception:
One of Shakespeare's greatest innovations was to dramatise people's thought processes:
the articulation of the mind's search for meaning and identity.
This is where Menzies' performance is most thrilling.
He shows how language strives to express the self and to pin down the truth.
Who am I?
What do I think and feel?
Menzies' delivery of the "To be or not to be..." speech burns with intelligence.
This is one of the finest and most exciting Hamlets I’ve seen.
Observe his face: it seems to mature, grow softer, more observant and expressive, and
his death becomes a fulfilment as well as a failure
The Independent noted that Menzies, "enjoying his antic disposition ... plays the fool dazzlingly:
a stage natural....
He gives it everything, even the fight."
In April 2007 Menzies appeared as William Elliot in ITV's production of Jane Austen's
classic, Persuasion, and also played Peter Trifimov in The Cherry Orchard with Joanna
Lumley.
The Yorkshire Post said, "The one who burns the brightest is Tobias Menzies as the idealistic
perpetual student Trofimov.
His performance is breathtaking."
He appeared as Derrick Sington in Channel 4's dramatisation of The Relief of Belsen
broadcast 15 October 2007 and then he filmed Forget Me Not, a Quicksilver Films production,
in which he starred alongside Genevieve O'Reilly.
He also was the Home Secretary in the long-running television drama Spooks, since December 2009.
Menzies plays Edmure Tully, the heir to the House of Tully of Riverrun on HBO's Game of
Thrones.
In 2012, he appeared in the political satire series The Thick of It during series 4 as
Simon Weir, as part of the Goolding Inquiry.
In 2014, Menzies played Maggie Gyllenhaal's bodyguard, Nathaniel Bloom, in the TV mini-series
The Honourable Woman.
The same year, Menzies also began co-starring in the Starz period TV series, Outlander as
two characters: Frank Randall / Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall.
Filmography Film
Television Theatre
Awards and nominations 2003: Nominated for the Sunday Times / Royal
National Theatre Ian Charleson Awards for his performance as Tusenbach in Michael Blakemore's
production of Three Sisters References
External links Tobias Menzies at the Internet Movie Database
@TobiasMenzies on Twitter "Outlander Interview".
ShowbizJunkies.
July 2014.