Tobias Menzies’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Tobias Menzies (born 7 March 1974) is an English stage, television and film actor. While working in theatre, he starred in television shows such as Rome (2005–2007) where he played Brutus and Game of Thrones (2013-present) where he plays Edmure Tully. He is also known for his dual role as Frank Randall and Jonathan “Black Jack” Randall in Outlander (2014–present), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

Early years

Menzies was born in North London, England, the son of a teacher and a BBC producer.

Menzies attended the Perry Court Rudolf Steiner School in Canterbury, Kent, where he was trained in the Steiner System, which includes movement, singing and musical instrumentation. Next he attended the Frensham Heights School near Farnham in Surrey at the same time as Hattie Morahan and Jim Sturgess. He went on to attend Deborah Moody’s Year Out Drama

Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 1993–94. He studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he graduated in 1998 with a BA in Acting degree.

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 (2005–07).

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 (which Nicholas Hytner directed at the Royal National Theatre), 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:

Menzies played the title role in Rupert Goold’s production of Hamlet, at the Royal Theatre, Northampton to an appreciative critical reception:

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 (at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield). 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 House Tully of Riverrun in 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, a 20th-century historian, and Jonathan “Black Jack” Randall, his brutal 18th-century ancestor.

In 2016 Menzies was cast to play a lead role in AMC’s anthology series The Terror to be broadcast in 2017.

Filmography

Radio

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations