Linus Roache

Linus Roache first gained worldwide recognition in Antonia Bird’s critically acclaimed film, Priest. Since then, he has appeared in many films including Iain Softley’s Wings of a Dove, Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, Find Me Guilty directed by Sidney Lumet and John Furse’s Blind Flight for which he received a Best Actor nomination from the Scottish BAFTAs. He also played the lead role in Pandaemonium, directed by Julien Temple for which he won the Evening Standard Best Actor award. He has starred in The Chronicles of Riddick, Hart’s War and Jaume Collet-Serra’s Non-Stop, opposite Liam Neeson. Linus also starred in Panos Cosmatos’ visionary film Mandy, opposite Nicolas Cage, as well as Hochelaga, Land of Souls directed by François Girard. In 2022 Linus shot a feature called The Dresden Sun directed by Michael Ryan and The Apology directed by Alison Star Locke. He also shot the Showtime television series called Fellow Travelers written by Ron Nyswaner. Continually, in 2022 Linus starred alongside Harry Styles and Emma Corrin in Michael Grandage’s film My Policeman which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and won the TIFF Tribute Award for Performance. Linus starred in Liberté: A Call to Spy directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher and Alex Gansa’s hit series Homeland for the final two seasons. Other recent credits include the BBC miniseries Summer of Rockets, directed by Stephen Poliakoff and three seasons as the power-hungry ‘King Ecbert’ in Michael Hirst’s acclaimed series Vikings. Linus received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of ‘Robert Kennedy’ in the F/X television film, RFK directed by Robert Dornhelm, and co-starred in HBO’s award-winning The Gathering Storm, for which he won the Golden Satellite Award for best actor in a supporting role. Linus played series regular, ‘Executive A.D.A Michael Cutter’, in NBC’s Law & Order from 2007 to 2010. He also appeared in Julian Fellowes’ miniseries, Titanic. His extensive theatrical credits include seasons with the RSC, The Royal National Theatre as well as The Royal Court, The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, The Odeon Theatre Paris, The Vineyard Theatre (Off Broadway NYC). Most notably he starred in Richard II and Coriolanus, opposite Ralph Fiennes at The Almeida Gainsborough Studios and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, directed by Jonathan Kent. Linus was most recently seen in the BBC’s acclaimed series The Capture as ‘Colonel Figgis’ and can next be seen in the independent Feature Color Your Hurt written and directed by Bella Thorne