Giles Terera

By Sophie Blacklaw • February 19, 2020

Giles Terera is an award-winning actor, musician, writer and film-maker. In 2018 he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for the role of Arron Burr in Hamilton. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to Theatre.

Theatre includes: Rosmersholm (Duke of Yorks Theatre); Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse); The Merchant of Venice (Globe Theatre & World Tour); The Book of Mormon, RENT (Prince of Wales Theatre); The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Hamlet, Death and the King’s Horseman, Troilus and Cressida, Candide, The Darker Face of the Earth (National Theatre); Avenue Q (Noël Coward Theatre); Ratpack (Strand Theatre & International Tour); Jailhouse Rock (Theatre Royal Plymouth & Piccadilly Theatre); 125th Street (Shaftsbury Theatre).

Television includes: Horrible Histories, Series 1-5 (CBBC)

Filmmaking includes: MUSE OF FIRE (Illuminations)