Career
In 1990, Glen won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Silent Scream.
It was announced on 20 August 2009 that Glen would star as Ser Jorah Mormont in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
In 2010, he was seen on television in the part of Father Octavian, leader of a sect of Clerics who were on a mission against the Weeping Angels in the serial The Time of Angels a two episode story which formed part of the fifth season of the revived Doctor Who. He appeared in the second series of Downton Abbey as Sir Richard Carlisle, a tabloid publisher who is a suitor to and subsequently engaged to Lady Mary.
In the 2012 BBC drama series Prisoners' Wives he plays Paul the husband of Francesca whose comfortable life comes crashing down when he is imprisoned for drug trafficking.
Also in 2012, he starred in a new 4-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko, with Richard Johnson as Faria, Jane Lapotaire as the aged Haydee, Toby Jones as Danglasr, Zubin Varla as Fernand, Paul Rhys as Villefort and Josette Simon as Mercedes.
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