Roache with his wife Rosalind Bennett at Tiff 2022
Born
Linus William Roache
(1964-02-01) 1 February 1964 (age 60)
Manchester, England
Alma mater
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1973–1976, 1985–present
Spouse
Rosalind Bennett
(m. 2002)
Parent(s)
William Roache Anna Cropper
Relatives
James Roache (half-brother)
Linus William Roache (born 1 February 1964) is a British actor. He is known for playing Executive ADA Michael Cutter in the NBC dramas Law & Order (2008–2010) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2011–2012). More recently, Roache played Ecbert, King of Wessex in Vikings from 2014 to 2017.
He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for playing Robert F. Kennedy in RFK (2002) and won a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor (TV) for his role as Ralph Wigram in The Gathering Storm (2002). His film appearances include Priest (1994), The Wings of the Dove (1997), Pandaemonium (2000), The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Batman Begins (2005), Non-Stop (2014) and Mandy (2018). In 2018 and 2020, he had a recurring role in the final two seasons of Homeland. In 2023, he played the role of Senator Wesley Smith in Showtime's Fellow Travelers.
Linus William Roache (born 1 February 1964) is a British actor. He is known for playing Executive ADA Michael Cutter in the NBC dramas Law & Order (2008–2010)...
by his real-life son Linus. The characters were introduced as part of the soap's fiftieth anniversary. LinusRoache played Roache's father Laurence on Coronation...
15 April 2022. Roache lives in Wilmslow, Cheshire. His eldest son, by his first wife Anna Cropper (1938–2007), is actor LinusRoache (born 1964). The...
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produced by Archetype Pictures, and stars Christina Ricci, Steven Ogg, LinusRoache, Samantha Win and Mena Suvari. A brilliant, principled mercenary with...
and decides to represent himself. The film also stars Peter Dinklage, LinusRoache, Alex Rocco, and Ron Silver. In the mid 1980s, Mafia soldier Jackie DiNorscio...
was written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff and stars Keeley Hawes, LinusRoache, Timothy Spall and Toby Stephens. It is a semi-autobiographical story...
of an affair between his British boss and close friend Henry Moores (LinusRoache) and a married village woman Sajani (Nandita Das). It was filmed on location...
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Chinlund as Toombs, a mercenary and bounty hunter who pursues Riddick. LinusRoache as The Purifier, a Necromonger priest who is also a Furyan survivor....
Unexpected episode (9/5) "The Facts of Life" (1988). She married fellow actor LinusRoache in Malvern Hills, Worcestershire, in 2002. Notes Hayward 1994, p.22 "The...
Halewood. The film stars LinusRoache, Clarke Peters, Alison Doody and Jamie Draven. Jamie Draven as Hardin Jones LinusRoache as Charles Lyndon Alison...
Virginia Hall Stana Katic as Vera Atkins Radhika Apte as Noor Inayat Khan LinusRoache as Maurice Buckmaster Rossif Sutherland as Dr. Chevain Samuel Roukin...
British prison film directed by John Furse and starring Ian Hart and LinusRoache. It is based on the true-life story of the kidnapping and imprisonment...
Directed by Richard Curson Smith, the film stars Lydia Wilson as Emily, LinusRoache as Lord James Walderhurst, Joanna Lumley as Lady Maria Byrne, and James...
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