But he has played baddies in pantomime, not sure if he's ever given a Captain Hook, but I'm going to have to speak to him because he's very good at ad-libbing back. He has done most of his work at the Royal Shakespeare Company. "Greg is really brilliant at finding the good, funny, exciting and interesting points in slightly dodgy plays. "Well, there was one, ONE, occasion when I wasn't allowed onstage because I had, unfortunately, locked myself out of my house and, erm, nobody was around to let me in and me and another actor decided it was a nasty wet day and we'd go for a small glass of wine at The Windmill. "And the people, James and Giles, who were this company based in Chingford in Essex, they taught me how to drive, passed my test and we all got on famously. They now live in Dorset. "Tom Hooper directed that and he's gone on to beautiful things with The King's Speech and Les Miserables. "Henry was last on stage in the West End during the winter of 2009 – going into 2010 – playing Sir Andrew Aguecheek [in Twelfth Night] for the second time, as well as in Noel Coward's Hay Fever at Chichester, with Diana Rigg. "I love coaches! "His absence from the stage had left Guy feeling a little rusty and in need of flexing what some performers call the acting muscle. Sarah Flind is an actress, known for Maleficent (2014), The Holiday (2006) and Gosford Park (2001). Associated With. Or does he think of himself as Cyrano de Bergerac? "I mean Hook is so different to Henrik Hanssen. That turned into several and, er, unfortunately I didn't do that show, but that was the only time I've done it. Trivia (1) Has a son Gus with actor Guy Henry.

"Ninety-two per cent of actors are unemployed at any time, which is a hell of an unemployment rate. "It's funny because, in the theatre, I tend to play these eccentric, doolally weirdoes and, on screen, I tend to be much more saturnine and contained. "This summer I achieved a childhood ambition when I wasn't doing anything in Transylvania," he explains. "But David Tennant has been playing my role of Richard II rather beautifully, so I can't play that. Has a son Gus with actor Guy Henry. In 2000, he and actress Sarah Flind became parents to a son named Gus. "The character of Hook is the classic, but he is very much preoccupied with age and there's a hint of the faded cowboy about him, of a faded rock starry, past-it boozer type of thing. "I'm 53, so I suppose Hook's 53 too, but he's been about a bit, he's fought and he's drunk and he's done all these sorts of terrible things – he is quite wasted, quite dissipated, but he's still got to be dangerous, with the skill of using his hook – it's going to be sharp, with a serrated edge. "He can still fight, but, in the opening scene, he's in a crisis of confidence, can't find Pan, the pirates are useless, the world is against him, even the starlings in the sky are laughing at him with contempt, so he shoots one of them, but it's a pine cone – he can't even shoot well enough to hit a bird. "A few weeks ago, I was up the Carpathian mountains in sub-Transylvania, which was standing in for Massachusetts in 1610 because it has amazing wooded mountains and scenery. "But we want him to be a real nightmare, something that is not merely a silly pantomime villain. "Also, Greg Doran is the Artistic Director here now, so I think that's one of the reasons I'm back, he's kindly asked me back. "It wasn't necessarily here, but I think that taught me, 'Better make a rule that we never do that again'. I wondered how that had manifested itself. "And, unfortunately, I've inherited my father's movement capabilities rather than my mother's.

"But, after three years of that, I was aching to get back to do some theatre, to do some shouting in a wig. So, it's fingers crossed... well, as many fingers as Hook has left! "I've had some of my happiest times up here and I've played some lovely parts, so it's great to come back to do this," he says. Guy Henry Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Guy Henry is a British stage and screen actor. He has appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). The son of fellow actor Michael Henry, he spent his early days in Kent, England, and later attended Brockenhurst College in Hampshire, England. Judi Dench was the Countess of Rossillion and that was a real joy, a real pleasure to be in. Guy, who has a 13-year-old son Gus, "with my friend Sarah Flind, who is an actress", lives in Tooting Bec, South West London, "which I love – I was very homesick the first week in Stratford. Probably rather unsavoury... you know, wanting to be in charge of something large and throbbing underneath you. "The BBC, the producers, made no bones about the fact that he had to be an important character in the show," he says. I think it's a good thing, as long as you don't spend too long in the Dirty Duck [the famous Stratford pub frequented by the RSC], but it's a good way to rehearse by being up here.

"He's vile and he's a disgusting human being, but then, does he wish to be? It was a childhood dream come true – fantastic!