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Owain Yeoman

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Owain Yeoman
A small army of well-trained criminals hijack the Eurostar deep beneath the English Channel.
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Owain Sebastian Yeoman is a Welsh actor born to Michael and Hilary Yeoman. He has one sister Ailsa. An honors English graduate of Brasenose College (1996-99), Oxford University, Yeoman also graduated from the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London with the distinction of being the Henry Marshall Shield Winner in 2003. His first audition was for the Warner Bros epic, Troy (2004) starring Brad Pitt in which director Wolfgang Petersen immediately cast Yeoman as Lysander, the Captain of the Trojan army.

A veteran of over a dozen stage plays in London's West End theaters and two Edinburgh international Stage/Film festivals Yeoman re-located to Los Angeles in 2004 where he was cast in TV projects including "The Friendlies", the lead role in Mark Burnett's Commando Nanny (2004) and played the T-888 main terminator in the pilot of the Terminator franchise series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008). Yeoman played leading series regular roles in the 2006 Fox comedy Kitchen Confidential (2005), opposite Bradley Cooper.

In 2008, Yeoman played Sgt. Eric Kocher in the HBO award-winning biopic Generation Kill (2008). He is probably best known to TV audiences for his leading role as CBI detective Wayne Rigsby in the CBS international hit series The Mentalist (2008) in which he has starred for over 6 years. in 2012, Yeoman was cast as the lead detective KING in the independent horror feature Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011) and as the lead in the festival short movie AbsolutSin (2012). In 2014, Yeoman was reunited with Bradley Cooper when he starred in American Sniper (2014) in which he was cast by Clint Eastwood.

He is an avid animal rights supporter and works closely with PETA and the Humane Society (USA). He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Gigi and their French bulldog, Cash.
BornJuly 2, 1978
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Owain Yeoman attends Monte Carlo Film/TV Festival 2011
Tom Wilkinson and Owain Yeoman in SAS: Red Notice (2021)
Clancy Brown, Robert Bailey Jr., Donald Faison, Owain Yeoman, Zabryna Guevara, Allison Tolman, Alexa Swinton, and Ashley Aufderheide in Emergence (2019)
Owain Yeoman in TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
Owain Yeoman
Bradley Cooper, Cory Hardrict, Owain Yeoman, Joel Lambert, Tony Nevada, and Brett Edwards in American Sniper (2014)
Owain Yeoman and Allison Tolman in No Outlet (2019)
Owain Yeoman in The Nine (2006)
Owain Yeoman in The Nine (2006)
Owain Yeoman in TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
Ian Kahn, Ksenia Solo, Seth Numrich, Owain Yeoman, Sean Haggerty, and Brian Wiles in TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
Ksenia Solo and Owain Yeoman in TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)

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Allison Tolman and Alexa Swinton in Emergence (2019)
Emergence
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TV Series
  • Benny Gallagher
Christopher Convery in Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
Brahms: The Boy II
4.7
  • Sean
  • 2020
Noel Clarke, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Heughan, Tom Hopper, Ruby Rose, and Hannah John-Kamen in SAS: Red Notice (2021)
SAS: Red Notice
5.2
  • Oliver Lewis
  • 2021
Simon Baker in The Mentalist (2008)
The Mentalist
8.1
TV Series
  • Wayne Rigsby

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  • Jonathan Pryce, Tom Felton, Samantha Morton, Susan Wokoma, and Adeel Akhtar in Save the Cinema (2022)
    Save the Cinema
  • Noel Clarke, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Heughan, Tom Hopper, Ruby Rose, and Hannah John-Kamen in SAS: Red Notice (2021)
    SAS: Red Notice
  • End Live-Shackle Slaughter PSA (2020)
    End Live-Shackle Slaughter PSA
    • (voice)
  • Christopher Convery in Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
    Brahms: The Boy II
  • Allison Tolman and Alexa Swinton in Emergence (2019)
    Emergence
  • The Blacklist (2013)
    The Blacklist
  • Jamie Bell in TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
    TURN: Washington's Spies
  • Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu in Elementary (2012)
    Elementary
  • John Gallagher Jr. in The Belko Experiment (2016)
    The Belko Experiment
  • David Harewood, Chyler Leigh, Jesse Rath, Azie Tesfai, Melissa Benoist, Katie McGrath, and Nicole Maines in Supergirl (2015)
    Supergirl
  • Simon Baker in The Mentalist (2008)
    The Mentalist
  • Bradley Cooper in American Sniper (2014)
    American Sniper
  • Halle Berry in Extant (2014)
    Extant
  • AbsolutSin (2012)
    AbsolutSin
  • Jamie Kennedy, Sanaa Lathan, Will Forte, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Arianna Huffington, Seth MacFarlane, Kevin Michael Richardson, Craig Robinson, Jason Sudeikis, John Viener, Glenn Howerton, Alec Sulkin, Mike Henry, Nickie Bryar, and Aseem Batra in The Cleveland Show (2009)
    The Cleveland Show
    • (voice)

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Brahms: The Boy II
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Brahms: The Boy II
The Belko Experiment
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The Belko Experiment
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ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2
The Mentalist: Season 2
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The Mentalist: Epk
The Mentalist: Where's The Watch
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    • July 2, 1978
    • Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
    • September 7, 2013 - present (1 child)
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    Married The Office (2001) actress Lucy Davis on the 9th December 2006 at St. Paul's Cathedral. Normally reserved for royal weddings (King Charles III and Princess Diana were wed there) Davis and Yeoman were permitted to marry there as Davis' father, comedian Jasper Carrott, was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours in 2002.
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    Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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