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Lloyd Owen (born 14 April 1966) is an English actor. Trained at the National Youth Theatre and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, he is probably best known for his portrayal of Indiana Jones's father Professor Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. in ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'' between 1992 and 1993 and for playing Paul Bowman-MacDonald in the BBC Scotland series ''Monarch of the Glen'' from 2002 to 2005. He played the role of solicitor William Heelis in the film ''Miss Potter'' (2006). However, his first love has always been the theatre. His first break on stage was the role of Nick in ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' in 1996. Other highlights of his stage career include playing Dan in ''Closer'' in 1998, George in ''The York Realist'' in 2002, and Peter in ''Paul'' in 2005. ==Early life== Richard Lloyd Owen was born on 14 April 1966 at the Charing Cross Hospital〔.〕 in Westminster, London, England. He was brought up in London, although both of his parents were Welsh – his father, actor Glyn Owen (1928–2004), was from Caernarfon, Gwynedd, in northwest Wales, while his mother, actress Patricia Mort, was from Morriston in Swansea, Wales.〔.〕 His sister is the actress Cathy Owen. When he was at Highgate School,〔As an alumnus of Highgate School, Owen is a member of the (Old Cholmeleian Society ) and Old Cholmeleian Sports Club, both named after the school's founder Sir Roger Cholmeley: .〕 because his father was an actor, his teachers thought that he should be able to act, too. However, at first he was not interested. "I was always made to read plays at school but I never wanted to. Then I was made to take part in a school play and I didn't want to do that either but I started to get approval for my acting. I was reasonably academic, good at sport, but somehow with the acting, people said 'that was fantastic'.〔."〕 So I thought,'ok, I'll carry on doing this for a bit and the next thing you know that's how I make my living these days". Born to parents Glyn Owen and Patricia Mort, he grew up around "a mob of entertaining, troublesome, fascinating" actors involved in challenging the Lord Chamberlain during some of the most exciting days of a very controversial Royal Court."〔.〕 At 16, Owen went straight from school to the National Youth Theatre, and subsequently received some formal training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. While there he managed to get an acting job and an Equity card, but when he told the principal of RADA he needed a term off, the request was denied and he was expelled from the Academy after just a year. Fortunately, Owen landed a job with Cheek by Jowl and followed the theatre company on tour around the world performing Shakespeare plays.〔 Owen has said that he wished he had gone to university, and that he had been "in too much of a rush".〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lloyd Owen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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