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Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-03-10

Place of Birth

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Colin Stinton

Biography

Colin Stinton (born March 10, 1947, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian actor whose career has spanned over four decades across stage, film, and television. He earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for his role in the U.S. premiere of Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad and played Mr. Robinson in both the London and New York stage productions of The Graduate. He made his screen debut in 1980 and has since accumulated over 100 credits. His most notable film roles include Dr. Dave Greenwalt in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Neal Daniels (CIA Deputy Director) in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Teddy Mayer in Rush (2013), a Customs Officer in Closer (2004), Inspector Rogers in The Machinist (2004), a Theoretical Physicist in Proof (2005), Daniel Burnham in The Current War (2017), a NORAD Colonel in Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), and Moscow Station Chief in All the Old Knives (2022). Other credits include The Verdict (1982), The Russia House (1990), Spy Game (2001), The Hours (2002), TransSiberian (2008), Borg vs. McEnroe (2017), and Hunter Killer (2018). On television, Stinton is best known as President Arthur Coleman Winters in the Doctor Who episode "The Sound of Drums" (2007), US Secretary of State Traynor Styles in Spooks (2006), Justice Robert H. Jackson in Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006), Anthony Markowitz in Broken News (2005, series regular), US Ambassador in Veep (2014), Dean Jackson in Outlander (2017), Lawrence Spivak in The Crown (2019), Chennault in The Queen's Gambit (2020), and Bastien in The Serpent (2021). He has also done extensive voice-over work for video games including Overwatch, Apex Legends, and RoboCop: Rogue City.

Known for

The Crown

The Crown

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

Outlander

Outlander

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Spooks

Spooks

Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

Veep

Veep

A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.

Waking the Dead

Waking the Dead

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

Industry

Industry

In the cutthroat world of international finance, a group of young graduates compete for a limited set of permanent positions at a top investment bank in London. The boundaries between colleague, friend, lover, and enemy soon blur as they immerse themselves in a company culture defined as much by sex, drugs and ego as it is by deals and dividends.

Foyle's War

Foyle's War

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

The Queen's Gambit

The Queen's Gambit

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

Absentia

Absentia

A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.

My Family

My Family

Ben Harper is a moderately successful family man and dentist. He is also undergoing a mid-life crisis and trying to cope with the bizarre reality of raising teenage children. His wife Susan seems quite happy, enjoys her job as a London tour guide, however at home her ability to find her way around a cookbook or pantry is less successful. Their three children Nick, Janey, and Michael are as different as chalk and cheese. Nick (19) is on his gap year, but doesn't get much further than the sofa or job centre, Janey is as sharp as a tack and 16 going on 25, while Michael is a very bright, computer-nerdish 12 year old who is just discovering girls.

Hanna

Hanna

Follow the journey of an extraordinary young girl as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is.

Jonathan Creek

Jonathan Creek

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.

Hunter Killer

Hunter Killer

Untested American submarine commander, Capt. Joe Glass of the USS Arkansas, is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress in the Arctic Ocean. He soon learns a secret Russian coup is in the offing, a conspiracy that threatens to dismantle the world order. With crew and country on the line, Glass must coordinate with an elite group of Navy SEALs to sneak through enemy waters, rescue the kidnapped Russian president, and hopefully prevent World War III.