pirates of the caribbean - Cannes International Film Festival

Nichols’ “Privates on Parade,” and was nominated for “City of Angels” and
“Summerfolk.”
Born in North London, Allam trained at Manchester University, where he received a BA
in Drama. After performing at Contract Theatre, Monstrous Regiment, the Birmingham
Rep and Glasgow Citizens Theatre, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1981.
Allam played the role of Inspector Javert in the original London production of the
Schonberg/Boublil musical “Les Miserables,” and his subsequent U.K. stage appearances
have included “Speer,” “What the Night is For,” “Democracy,” “Aladdin,” “Blackbird,”
“The Importance of Being Earnest,” “The Way of the World,” “Art,” “Ensemble,” “Troilus
and Cressida,” “Summerfolk,” “The Cherry Orchard,” “Boeing Boeing,” “Afterlife” and
“La Cage Aux Folles.”
Allam’s feature films have included “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story,” “The
Wind That Shakes the Barley,” “The Queen,” “V for Vendetta,” “Speed Racer” and
“Tamara Drewe.” He’s also been seen in the television movies “The Investigation: Inside
a Terrorist Bombing,” “RKO 281,” “Foyle’s War,” “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone,”
“Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire” and several series.
Roger Allam lives in London with his wife, actress Rebecca Saire, with sons William and
Thomas.
ANTON LESSER (Lord John Carteret) attended the University of Liverpool before going
to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1977, where he was awarded the Bancroft
Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year. As an associate artist with the Royal
Shakespeare Company he has played a considerable number of the Bard’s great roles,
including Troilus in “Troilus and Cressida,” Edgar in “King Lear,” Henry Bolingbroke in
“Richard II,” Petruchio and Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet,” Brutus in “Julius Caesar,”
Leontes in “A Winter’s Tale” and the title role of “Richard III.” He’s also starred in the
title role of “Hamlet” and as Dr. Rank in “A Doll’s House” at the Donmar Warehouse,
and in “The Vertical Hour” at the Royal Court Theatre.
Lesser’s feature film credits have included “Esther Kahn,” “Charlotte Gray,” “Eroica,”
“Imagining Argentina,” “Mrs. Potter” and “Primieval.” His numerous television
appearances have included “King Lear,” “Good and Bad at Games,” “The Murderers
Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story,” “The Politician’s Wife,” “Vanity Fair,”
“Dickens,” “The Girl in the Café,” “Little Dorrit,” “Casualty” and many others. He lives in
Warwickshire with his wife Madeleine and their two children, Harry and Lily.
The British and the Spanish
GREG ELLIS returns to the role of Groves in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger
Tides.” He’s the star of Nickelodeon’s “Gigantic,” which premiered in Fall 2010, and was
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