Anthony Head is an English actor, a main regular actor featured in the Apple TV+ series, Ted Lasso, and played the character of Rupert Mannion. In season three, the actor is promoted to the main cast and received a name credit in the intro. When he was a guest star in the show, he embodied the oft-mentioned, but mostly off-screen, the antagonist billionaire Rupert Mannion.
History[]
Anthony Head was born in Camden Town, London on February 20th 1954. He was educated at Sunbury Grammar School and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
In discussing why he chose acting as a career, in an interview in 2013 he said that "When it's in your family, it's a choice, it's there. It's not a jump to say: 'I want to act.' When I was six I was in a little show my mother's friends organised, playing the Emperor in The Emperor's New Clothes. I remember thinking: 'This is the business, this is what I want to do.'"
Career[]
His first role was in the musical Godspell; this led to roles in television on both BBC and ITV, one of his earliest being an appearance in the series Enemy at the Door (ITV, 1978–1980). In the early 1980s he provided backing vocals for the band Red Box. He was featured as well on the album Face in the Window (1983) by Two Way.
Anthony Head is undoubtedly best known to many as "Rupert Giles" on the TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Other prominent roles include Arthur's father on Merlin, the recurring Prime Minister on Little Britain, "David Where" in Dominion, "Ed Walker" in You, Me, & Them, "Stephen Caudwell" in Free Agents, and several roles in Doctor Who, including that of the longest—running narrator of the companion documentary series, Doctor Who Confidential.
His distinctive voice has allowed him a fairly deep "parallel" career in radio, documentary narration and voiceover acting alongside his in-camera acting career.
Playing An Antagonist In Ted Lasso[]
When asked how does it feel to play a character like Rupert Mannion, he answered that it is fun to embodied the character evil trait. He added that sometimes it’s more fun being a bad guy because he’s just got more going on.
The veteran actor informs that the thing that he finds fascinating is that he'd get to play other people who are not him. There are some actors who are basically, it’s them, or a version of them, and there are some actors who are a different person. He likes to gravitate towards the latter.
External links[]
- Anthony Head at IMDb
- Anthony Head at Tardis, the Doctor Who Wiki