Anton Lesser (born 14 February 1952) is an English actor. He is particularly well known for his roles as Qyburn in the HBO series Game of Thrones, as Thomas More in Wolf Hall, as Harold Macmillan in The Crown, and as Chief Superintendent Bright in the Inspector Morse spin-off, Endeavour.\n', '

Anton Lesser attended Moseley Grammar School in Moseley, Birmingham, and the University of Liverpool before going to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1977, where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year.[citation needed] He is of Jewish descent.\n', '

As an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Lesser played a considerable number of Shakespeare\'s great roles, including Troilus (Troilus and Cressida), Edgar (King Lear), Petruchio, Romeo, Henry Bolingbroke, Brutus (Julius Caesar), Leontes (Winter\'s Tale) and Richard III.[citation needed]\n', '

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