Anthropoid
Anthropoid is based on the extraordinary true story of “Operation Anthropoid,” the code name for the Czechoslovakian operatives’ mission to assassinate SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution, was the Reich’s third in command behind Hitler and Himmler and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.
The film follows two soldiers from the Czechoslovakian army-in-exile, Josef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan), who are parachuted into their occupied homeland in December 1941. With limited intelligence and little equipment in a city under lockdown, they must find a way to assassinate Heydrich, an operation that would change the face of Europe forever.
Based on an extraordinary and little-known true story, the secret operation code-named “Anthropoid” begins nearly three years after the infamous Munich Agreement, which allowed Germany to take over Czechoslovakia without a shot being fired. Trained in England, resistance fighters Josef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) from Slovakia and Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan) of Moravia parachute into their Nazi-occupied homeland on a daring mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, one of the main architects of the Holocaust, is known as “The Butcher of Prague” for his iron-fisted rule of the terrified Czechoslovak population. Landing secretly in a Czechoslovakian forest in December 1941, Josef and Jan arrive in Prague to join forces with the city’s beleaguered resistance network, led by the cautious Ladislav Vanek (Marcin Dorociński) and Uncle Hajský (Toby Jones).
The pair spent five months hiding in the apartment of a family sympathetic to their cause as they plan a bold daylight attack on Heydrich’s car. Immersed in an occupied city where the slightest slip-up could result in torture or death at the hands of Third Reich soldiers, Josef forges a passionate bond with shrewd resistance fighter Lenka (Anna Geislerová) while Jan comes to terms with his potentially suicidal assignment in the company of beautiful Czechoslovak rebel Marie (Charlotte Le Bon). In May 1942, after months of planning alongside fellow paratroopers including Adolf Opálka (Harry Lloyd), Josef Valčík (Václav Neužil) and Karel Čurda (Jiří Šimek), Josef and Jan ambush Heydrich on the streets of Prague. The Nazis react with brutal reprisals, including murder and torture, as they try to ferret out those responsible for the attack. As the terror unfolds, Josef, Jan and their compatriots resolve to fend off the Nazis in the name of freedom, no matter the cost. Fueled by their bravery and patriotism, “Operation Anthropoid” culminates in one of World War II’s most courageous acts of resistance, changing the course of the war and the fate of Europe forever. Anthropoid is directed by Sean Ellis (Metro Manila, Cashback) and written by Ellis and Anthony Frewin (Color Me Kubrick). The movie stars Cillian Murphy (“Peaky Blinders,” Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy), Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey, “The Fall”), Charlotte Le Bon (The Walk, The Hundred-Foot Journey), Anna Geislerová (Želary, Something Like Happiness), Harry Lloyd (The Theory of Everything, “Game of Thrones”), Alena Mihulová (Home Care, Kráva), Marcin Dorociński (Rose, Jack Strong), Bill Milner (Locke, X-Men: First Class), Sam Keeley (Burnt, In the Heart of the Sea), Jiří Šimek (Three Brothers, Sen noci), Mish Boyko (Dracula Untold, Risen), Václav Neužil (The Seven Ravens, Ctvrtá hvezda), Andrej Polák (Tobruk, Seance Fiction) and Toby Jones (“The Girl,” Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets). Produced by Mickey Liddell (Risen, The Grey), Pete Shilaimon (Risen, The Devil’s Hand) and Sean Ellis. Executive Producers are Anita Overland (Far From the Madding Crowd, Rush), Léonard Glowinski (A Hologram for the King, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), Kryštof Mucha (In the Shadow, Grandhotel), David Ondříček (Lost in Munich, In the Shadow), Jennifer Monroe (In Secret, The Grey) and Chris Curling (God Help the Girl, The Last Station). Cinematographer is Sean Ellis. Production Designer is Morgan Kennedy (The Sweeney, The Broken). Film Editor is Richard Mettler (Metro Manila). Music by Robin Foster (Good Luck Algeria, Metro Manila). Makeup and Hair Designer is Gabriela Poláková (The Visitors: Bastille Day, Snowpiercer). Costume Designer is Josef Čechota (Us 2, Grandhotel). Casting by Des Hamilton (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Wuthering Heights).
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
An extraordinary story of wartime heroism, Anthropoid fulfils a long-held dream for filmmaker Sean Ellis. The writer-director-cinematographer first learned about the little-known chapter of history in 2001 when he saw a documentary about the assassination of brutal SS General Reinhard Heydrich. “I’ve always been interested in everything having to do with World War II so I was astounded that I had never come across this moving story before,” recalls Ellis. Immersing himself in research, he spent years assembling an archive of photographs and other historical materials to understand the details and context surrounding “Operation Anthropoid.”
Act of Heroism
In 1939 Western Allies signed the Munich Agreement, an infamous act of appeasement that allowed Hitler’s Germany to occupy northern territories of neighboring Czechoslovakia. After wresting control of industry in this area, inhabited primarily by ethnic German speakers, Hitler and his troops soon took over the entire country, ensuring that Czechoslovakia would remain, in effect, a prison camp for the duration of World War II.
By late 1941 SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, outranked in the Third Reich only by Hitler and Himmler, oversaw the occupying forces in Czechoslovakia. Nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague,” Heydrich crushed any attempt at opposition and forced Czechoslovakian factories to produce military material for the Reich. Pressured by the British government to strike a blow for the Allies, Czechoslovakia’s government-in-exile, led by President Edvard Beneš, authorized the “Anthropoid” plan to kill Heydrich.
England’s Special Operations Executive trained Czech soldiers as paratrooper-assassins, who carried out the mission on May 27, 1942. Heydrich, a key architect of the Holocaust, died from his wounds one week later on June 4, ultimately becoming the highest-ranking Nazi assassinated during the war. The Reich exacted brutal reprisals for the attack, including the execution of 5,000 Czechoslovak civilians. The bloodshed prompted Winston Churchill to nullify the Munich Agreement, paving the way for the Allies’ declaration of war against Germany. “If you follow the history from the Munich Agreement all the way to the assassination and through the aftermath, it’s an incredibly complex and overwhelming story,” says Ellis, who recruited Color Me Kubrick writer Anthony Frewin to flesh out the movie’s core story points. “It took me a while to figure that I didn’t want to make a blockbuster war epic, but instead focus on the story of two parachutists. I wanted to explore what it would be like to be Jan Kubiš and Josef Gabčík, to know what it would have felt like to be part of the ultimate act of resistance.”
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Ellis and Frewins’ screenplay captivated producers Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon of LD Entertainment, whose numerous productions have included Risen, In Secret and the upcoming biopic Jackie, starring Natalie Portman. “These are true heroes,” says Liddell. “They gave their life to a cause that was much bigger than them, at a time when it could have gone very dark and things could have been very different. We’ve seen a lot of World War II stories, and there are so many amazing ones to be told, but from page one when these characters parachuted in, I was hooked. It was fantastic writing.” “It’s very rare that a script comes across my desk that I can’t put down,” adds Shilaimon. “Not only did it make me want to learn more about World War II, but also how big a role Prague and Czechoslovakia played in the war.” Ellis previously showcased his ability to create onscreen emotional tension with the crime drama Metro Manila, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Riding the wave of acclaim, he began actively pursuing getting Anthropoid made. “The sacrifice that Jan Kubiš and Josef Gabčík made for their country was similar in theme to what I had explored in Metro Manila, but on much a larger scale,” says the director. “So Anthropoid seemed like the obvious next film to put into production.” Even after spending a decade and a half preparing Anthropoid for the big screen, Ellis continues to find inspiration in its real-life characters. “It has been a humbling experience to tell the story of these brave men and women of the Czechoslovakian resistance, who sacrificed themselves for the freedom of their country.”
Casting Heroes To bring the heroes of “Operation Anthropoid” to life, Ellis cast Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan in the lead roles of resistance fighters Josef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. “I could not be happier with what Jamie and Cillian accomplished,” says the director. “As Jan, Jamie does a masterful job of exuding rash vulnerability under intense pressure. Cillian found brilliant ways to manifest confidence and a cold-hearted determination that also masked a kind of moral anxiety that Josef seemed to experience.” Murphy, a Golden Globe nominee known for such features as Inception and Batman Begins as well as the BBC2/Netflix series “Peaky Blinders,” remembers tearing through the Anthropoid screenplay in a single sitting after watching Ellis’ previous feature. “Metro Manila knocked me out,” says the actor. “And then I read the Anthropoid script. If something’s that good a read on the page, it’s just going to get better and better.” Murphy’s intense and precise characterization of Josef, along with his easy rapport with his castmates, helped raise the level of everyone’s performances, according to Shilaimon. “As a producer,
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when you have an actor who is available to talk to anybody and is so incredible in his craft, you just feel safe. Anytime Cillian was on, you knew the scene was going to play out incredibly well, and you knew the actors around him were going to step up.” For Dornan, Anthropoid represents a significant departure from his recent turns as Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey and Paul Spector in the BBC2/Netflix series “The Fall.” “I was blown away by the story,” says Dornan, who first learned about “Operation Anthropoid” when he read the screenplay. “It’s fascinating that something of this magnitude could exist and yet people do not know about it.” Before shooting began, Murphy and Dornan spent months researching the assassination they would dramatize on screen. “Sean gave me and Cillian this book called Operation Anthropoid which gives a blow-by-blow account of every detail of the mission,” Dornan says. “That became our bible.” Additionally the actors trained with a Czech group devoted to World War II re-enactments and the weaponry of the early 1940s. “These guys showed us how to load the gun, how to stand,” Murphy recalls. “We went to a real shooting range and fired live rounds. That’s when you realize how hard it is to handle these weapons.” Once filming began, Dornan and Murphy forged a tight bond with director Ellis. “It felt very much like me and Sean and Jamie were making the film together,” Murphy says. “The atmosphere Sean creates on and off set is very familial and that feeling gets transferred onto the performances.” The fact that Ellis also served as cinematographer made the vibe on set even more intimate, adds Murphy. “Anthropoid is the first time I’ve had a director behind the lens with a handheld on his shoulder. Never in my career have I had a director who went so far in spelling out visually how he wanted major scenes to play out. For me, it was reassuring to know that every single shot was worked out and Sean knew exactly where you needed to be.” Along with the physical and emotional demands of their roles, the actors had to master Czechoslovakian accents. Ellis decided to have the Nazi soldiers speak German to emphasize the fact that they are a foreign occupying army, while the resistance fighters speak Czechoslovak-tinged English. “I was terrified at first by the idea of doing a Czech accent,” adds Dornan. “Unlike Russian, which you can really hang your hat on because it’s a stronger and more definitive accent, Czech is quite subtle really.”
Rounding Out the Resistance British character actor Toby Jones, renowned for his eccentric charm in movies ranging from Captain America to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as well as his Emmy-nominated performance as director Alfred Hitchcock in “The Girl,” signed on to play senior resistance fighter Uncle Hajský.
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“Toby Jones is simply one of the best actors the UK has to offer,” says Ellis. “His approach and commitment to the role was very important to the film because Uncle Hajský becomes the moral compass of the group.” To play Jan’s sweetly courageous love interest, Maria, the director cast Charlotte Le Bon, the French-Canadian actress whose recent credits include The Hundred-Foot Journey and The Walk. “Charlotte’s one of the most sought-after actresses in Europe currently and I could not have asked for a more detailed and nuanced portrait of this girl who falls in love with a man she knows will probably die,” Ellis says. “The contrasting relationships between Jan and Josef and their girlfriends form the emotional spine of the story. They reveal the different ways these men deal with the prospect of their own deaths.” “There’s something very naive about Marie,” Le Bon says. “She’s trying to be light about everything even though the occupation is very heavy, and I think that’s what Jan sees in her.” Czech actress Anna Geislerová, who plays world-weary resistance fighter Lenka, appreciated Ellis’ intensity as a director. “When I met Sean, I asked him ‘how do you work?’ and he said, ‘I talk a lot, we do a lot of takes, and we keep shooting,’” recalls Geislerová, winner of the Czech Lion for her performance in Želary, the 2003 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. The Anthropoid screenplay resonated strongly with the Czech actress. “I liked the script so much I didn’t even ask who else was going to be in the movie,” she says. “There’s one scene where Cillian says, ‘You have to take a side,’ and for me, that’s the subject of the movie: you have to live according to your beliefs and your values.” Many of the film’s supporting roles were filled by Czech actors as well. These include resistance leader Ladislav Vanek, played by Marcin Dorociński, and Josef and Jan’s fellow paratroopers Josef Valčík and Karel Čurda, played by Václav Neužil and Jiří Šimek, respectively. “Casting so many Czechs in the movie really helped the film’s sense of authenticity,” says Shilaimon. “I think a lot of our British actors took accent cues from their Czech counterparts.”
Recreating 1940s Prague Anthropoid shot for 39 days in Prague, Czech Republic, beginning in July 2015. “I wanted to honor the soldiers and give the film the authenticity the story deserved,” Ellis says. “Prague has changed much in recent years, but many parts of the city center are just like they were during the war. We were able to film some scenes exactly where they actually took place over 70 years ago.” Collaborating with many Czech actors and a largely Czech crew, Ellis enjoyed support from the city’s residents as well. “The Czech people in general were so supportive of Anthropoid,” he says. “Even though it’s in English, I really wanted them to feel like they could embrace this film.
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As the film’s director of photography as well as its co-writer and director, Ellis carefully evaluated lighting and color scale to recreate the mood of the Czechoslovakian capital during the early 1940s. He also insisted on shooting Anthropoid on Super 16mm film. “This movie had to feel raw and gritty and not at all digital or glossy,” says Ellis, who also shot Metro Manila on Super 16. “There is a weight and a tension throughout the whole occupied city, so I wanted the movie to feel oppressive with this tea-stained look and soft lighting.” To underscore the aesthetic, Ellis used handheld cameras exclusively. “That gives the story a subjective view, as if we are on the ground with our heroes, trying to pull off this near-impossible task.” The use of real locations intensified the sense of the story’s historical significance for cast and crew. For instance, exterior sequences for the climactic firefight were filmed at the Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral, where the bloody showdown between paratroopers and Nazis actually took place. To commemorate the battle, an on-site plaque lists names of the men who sacrificed their lives for Czech freedom. “To be able to film outside the actual cathedral was an absolute privilege,” says Ellis. “It was like stepping back in time.” To recreate Prague’s 1940s appearance, Ellis hired production designer Morgan Kennedy, with whom he had worked on his 2008 horror film The Broken. Poring over historical archives, Kennedy found a wealth of detail that ultimately made it onto the screen. “We based our designs on a vast amount of original documentation,” says Ellis. “Our goal was to recreate almost every space to the highest possible level of detail.” For the scenes inside the cathedral, a replica of the church’s vast interior was built by more than 40 crew members at Barrandov Studios, one of the largest soundstages in Europe. The ceiling alone weighed 16 tons and was produced on the ground from 910 bags of concrete, 300 bags of plaster, nearly 1,000 square feet of glass and over 35,000 square feet of wooden boards. Crew members then hoisted the ceiling into position with 38 chain winches. Dornan was floored by the accuracy of the cathedral set. “On a Tuesday, I went to the real cathedral and saw the actual spot where my character Jan took his last breath, which had a massive effect on me,” he recalls. “And then on Thursday I went to the set of the church. It blew my mind because it was literally identical. The attention to detail was like nothing I’ve ever seen, reproduced exactly to the scale of the church. Honestly, it’s the most impressive set I’ve ever seen in my life.” Production designer Kennedy supervised construction of the massive replica interior, whose dimensions were within inches of those of the actual church. “This was the biggest thing I’ve ever built,” says Kennedy. “When the manager of Barrandov Studios came over to see the finished cathedral, she was so overcome by emotion she started crying.”
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On the Barrandov backlot, crew members recreated the secret crypt where Czechoslovakian paratroopers hid after the attack on Heydrich. Filmmakers shot on the set for three days before flooding the entire room for the film’s final scenes. “We built this beautiful church and then destroyed it,” says Ellis. “We shot the firefight chronologically over five intense days so the damage to the walls would increase as the chaos builds. The final battle is the film’s showpiece, so after all that tension, it’s crucial that we see first-hand the danger these paratroopers faced and the incredible bravery they demonstrated.” Many members of the Czechoslovakian resistance were tortured at Petschek Palace, a former bank converted to Gestapo headquarters during the war. Today, the Palace hosts a basement museum dedicated to the memory of the fighters. For the Anthropoid shoot, the filmmakers restored the building to its wartime look. And in a chilling recreation of the Nazi reign of terror, the scene depicting young violinist At’a Moravec’s torture at the hands of Gestapo officers was filmed in the same room where the real interrogation took place. For action set in locations that no longer exist, Ellis and his team worked from reference photographs to recreate these sites as accurately as possible. The assassination scene was filmed at a street corner that resembles almost identically the spot of the original assassination, which is now covered by a highway. Although the Moravec family’s apartment still exists, it was deemed too small for the roving camera the production needed. So the filmmakers painstakingly recreated the living quarters at Barrandov with removable walls, replicating every detail of the original, right down to the hallway tiles. Similarly, Kennedy and his crew refused to compromise when it came to the car Nazi General Heydrich rides in during the assassination attempt. “Early on we tried to find a replica of the Mercedes Heydrich rode in when he got assassinated,” says Kennedy. “There were a few options but none of them were the exact car so we decided to build it from scratch because we wanted to remain faithful to the accuracy of the story. We found a Mercedes museum and rented original headlights, original moldings and pieces of chrome. We then made our own seat, steering wheel and dashboard.” Anthropoid was shot on a tight schedule of many long days during a summer of recordbreaking heat. Still, the atmosphere on set brimmed with excitement says Liddell. “I would just watch in awe the way Sean ran the set and his vision of the film. It was probably one of my favorite sets I’ve ever been on.” Ellis praises cast and crew for coming together in difficult conditions to create a film that is at once thrilling and important. “Everybody knew they were doing something special and they were proud to be part of it. We were all passionate about telling this story to the world.”
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ABOUT THE CAST
CILLIAN MURPHY (Josef Gabčík) first garnered international attention for his performance in Danny Boyle’s horror classic 28 Days Later. Since then he has proved to be one of the most acclaimed and versatile actors of his generation. Murphy’s career highlights include a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance as the transgender outcast Patrick “Kitten” Braden in Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto and British Independent Film Award nominations for Ken Loach’s Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner The Wind That Shakes the Barley. He also starred in Danny Boyle’s Sunshine and Rufus Norris’ Broken, which opened the International Critics’ Week section at the Cannes Film Festival and won the award for Best British Independent Film. Murphy next stars in Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire, executive produced by Martin Scorsese. This action thriller is set in late-1970s Boston. He most recently co-starred with Chris Hemsworth in the Moby Dick adaptation In the Heart of the Sea. Earlier this year he completed work on the third season of the acclaimed BBC Two/Netflix drama series “Peaky Blinders,” created by Steven Knight. In 2005 Murphy made an indelible impression as Dr. Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan’s superhero epic Batman Begins, earning a London Film Critics Circle nomination. He reprised the role in Nolan’s The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises before teaming up with the director again for Inception. Murphy regularly returns to the stage, often collaborating with Irish playwright Enda Walsh in shows such as “Disco Pigs,” “Ballyturk” and “Misterman.” For the latter production Murphy won the 2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. He’d previously won The Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Actor after the original production in Galway, Ireland. JAMIE DORNAN (Jan Kubiš) is a Northern Irish actor who most recently starred as Christian Grey in the eagerly anticipated film adaptation Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). It marked the biggest opening weekend for an R-rated film internationally upon its release on Valentine’s Day weekend and grossed over $550 million worldwide. Dornan received critical acclaim for his portrayal of a chilling serial killer in the BBC’s crime drama “The Fall,” opposite Gillian Anderson. The series was the highest-rated drama for the channel in 8 years and received a nomination for Best Drama at the National Television Awards. Dornan received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Actor and two IFTA wins (Best Lead Actor and Rising Star). He also won the Breakthrough Award at the 2014 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards. Next, Dornan plays a lead role in The 9th Life of Louis Drax, the story of psychologist Allan Pascal (Dornan), who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall. He also stars in Parallel Films’ upcoming Jadotville, a military drama about the 1961 siege of 150 U.N. troops
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in the Congo. Dornan recently completed filming the third series of “The Fall” and is currently on set of the hotly anticipated sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, which are confirmed for release in February 2017 and February 2018. Dornan’s feature-film debut came in Sofia Coppola’s 2006 Oscar-winning historical epic Marie Antoinette, as Count Axel Fersen, lover to Kirsten Dunst’s eponymous character. In 2009 he starred in the British independent film Shadows in the Sun, alongside Jean Simmons and James Wilby, and filmed the indie-produced Belgian film Flying Home, alongside Anthony Head and Max Pirkis. The actor’s television credits include “New Worlds,” Channel 4’s miniseries depicting the terror and turbulence experienced in England and America during the English Civil War, and the complex dual-role of Sheriff Graham/the Huntsman for three seasons of ABC’s fantasy drama “Once Upon a Time.”
CHARLOTTE LE BON (Marie Kovárníková) has shared the screen with many top stars. Her credits include Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk, opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Bastille Day, alongside Idris Elba and Richard Madden; The Hundred Foot Journey, opposite Helen Mirren; and Yves Saint Laurent, opposite Pierre Niney, which premiered at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival. Next, Le Bon will be seen in Mateo Gil’s Realive, alongside Tom Hughes; Terry George’s The Promise, opposite Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac; and Arctic Heart, opposite Guillaume Canet.
ANNA GEISLEROVÁ (Lenka Fafková) is perhaps the Czech Republic’s most recognized celebrity on the small and silver screen. She was a European Films Shooting Star in 2004 and then served as a member of the Shooting Stars jury in 2010 at the Berlin International Film Festival. She has been nominated for more Czech Lions than any other Czech actress, winning five times, and is a recipient of the Slovak Hercova Mise, a lifetime achievement award. Geislerová’s rise to national fame began at the age of 14, when she debuted in Filip Renc’s Requiem for a Maiden (1991). Her numerous acting credits include Academy Award® winner Jan Sverak’s The Ride (1994); Ondrej Trojan’s Želary, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003; and most recently Jiří Sádek’s The Noonday Witch.
HARRY LLOYD (Adolf Opálka) is a British actor known for a wide variety of roles in film, television and theater. He has appeared in Oscar-winning films The Iron Lady, as the young Denis Thatcher, and The Theory of Everything, as Brian, the best friend and confidant of Stephen Hawking. He also starred in the indie movie Big Significant Things, currently playing on Netflix. Other film roles include Richard Mason in Jane Eyre and the lead role of Virgil opposite Mark Strong and Vera Farmiga in Closer to the Moon.
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After his breakout role as Will Scarlett in BBC’s “Robin Hood,” Lloyd went on to play one of the most celebrated villains seen on “Dr. Who.” In 2010 he was a Screen International Star of Tomorrow and was later cast in the first season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” as Viserys Targaryen, brother of Daenyrs. He next appeared in the BAFTA-nominated miniseries “Great Expectations” (BBC) and earned a BAFTA nomination (Best Supporting Actor) for his role as Matty Beckett in “The Fear” (Channel 4), alongside Peter Mullan. He recently wrapped two seasons of the critically acclaimed series “Manhattan” (WGN America), based on the story of the scientists who created the world’s first atomic bomb. Most recently, Lloyd wrapped filming on ITV’s “Marcella,” written by the creator of “The Bridge,” which concerns a series of murders in London. The actor has performed extensively on stage in London, being nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for his role in “Ghosts” at the Arcola, and for Best Actor at the Off West End Awards for “Notes From Underground,” a one-man play he adapted from the book by Dostoyevsky. Other theater credits include West End productions of “The Duchess of Malfi,” “The Little Dog Laughed” and “A View From the Bridge.”
ALENA MIHULOVÁ (Marie Moravcovà) is a Czech stage and film actress whose most significant film role was probably the character of Mary in the bittersweet comedy Nurses (1983), for Czech director Karel Kachyňa. Mihulová then took on another major role in Juice Novel (1984) before subsequently
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