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Nickolas Grace
(21 November 1947 - living) U.K.

Nickolas Grace

Actor

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Nickolas Grace, born in West Kirby, Cheshire, England, is known for his roles on television, including Anthony Blanche in the acclaimed ITV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited , and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1980s series Robin of Sherwood . Grace also played Dorien Green's husband Marcus Green in the 1990s British comedy series Birds of a Feather.

Nickolas was educated at the King's School, Chester and Forest School, Walthamstow. He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he still teaches. He made his theatrical debut in weekly rep in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex in 1969, and appeared in Trevor Peacock's Erb later that year, which transferred to the Strand Theatre in spring 1970, his first appearance in the West End. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1972, and in 1973 played Aumerle there in the Ian Richards on Richard Pasco Richard II , which transferred to Broadway.

During his affair with the fellow actor Alan Bates, this latter was so worried somebody couls undertsnd their story, that he made Nickolas hide under the back seat if they were travelling in a car. Alan and Nickolas, who was 25, became in the latter's words "very close and very loving, in an intense affair that was one of the most important relationships of my life". When the inevitable split with Nickolas came, it was brutal. "It's been very nice to have known you," Alan told him with astonishing coolness one day, "and I'm sure I'll see you around in London." It took Nickolas months to recover.

He then played Hamlet for the opening of the Playhouse, Derby. Back at the RSC he appeared as Dromio of Ephesus in Trevor Nunn's first ever musical, The Comedy of Errors , Hitler in Schweik and Witwoud in The Way of the World , directed by John Barton.

Nickolas Grace secured the part of the flamboyant aesthete Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited , which filmed off and on. Following the success of on television, he played Richard II at the Young Vic , and Mozart in Amadeus with Frank Finlay at Her Majesty's Theatre. He then began working in operetta, playing Koko in The Mikado and Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore for Sadler's Wells Opera in repertoire.

Following a recurring role as the unnamed 'Consultant' on Victor Lewis-Smith's loosely hospital-based sketch show Inside Victor Lewis-Smith , Grace played Marcus Green, the long-suffering husband of Dorien in Birds of a Feather, in a couple of episodes. He has also appeared three times in the BBC Sitcom My Family. He played Underling the Butler in The Drowsy Chaperone with Elaine Paige at the Novello Theatre.

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