Tim Dutton
Tim Dutton
Timothy Dutton (born 1964) is a British stage, film, and television actor. Dutton's films include Darkness Falls (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Infiltrator (2016) and The Detonator. He starred in the movie Tom & Viv (1994) as Maurice Haigh-Wood. He grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. He read Law at Wolverhampton University and gained an LLB(Hons) before turning to acting. Dutton had a minor role in Soldier Soldier playing Donna Tucker's tutor and lover (4 episodes, 1994). He had a recurring role in the Fox television series Ally McBeal as Brian Selig, a love interest of the title character. He also starred in the short-lived but critically acclaimed CBS sitcom about the Pilgrims in Plymouth Colony, Thanks which Entertainment Weekly called "the funniest new sitcom of the [1999–2000] season." He made an appearance in the Press Gang episode "Chance is a Fine Thing" as Clark Kent, Judy's jealous boyfriend. He has worked twice with the writer Alan Bleasdale, starring in “Melissa” with Jenifer Ehle (1997) and “Oliver Twist” (1999). In 2001 he starred in the ABC comedy pilot H.M.O. with John Cleese, playing two ex-pat surgeons in a LA hospital. In 2010 he produced and starred in “The Rendezvous”. He has twice starred with the same actress, Tara Fitzgerald, in director Ferdinand Fairfax’s “Frenchman’s Creek” (1998) and “In the Name of Love” (1999). His Theatre credits include plays in the West End (London Assurance), Chichester Festival Theatre (Loves Labour’s Lost,Victory), The Royal Exchange Manchester (She’s in Your Hands), twice working with director Sam Mendes. Dutton made a major stage appearance in 2014 in Headlong's highly acclaimed production of 1984 directed by Robert Icke, at the Almeida and later in the West End and Internationally. He played the false friend and Party apparatchik, O'Brien.For which he won Best Featured Actor, [Broadway World LA Awards].