Guy de Lancey
DE LANCEY, Guy. (19*-) Actor.
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Biography
Training
Studied Drama at Rhodes University, graduating with BA Honours in 1984.
Career
Joined PACT's permanent company in 1986.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Acting
While at university he appeared in the ATKV Kampustoneel production of Môre is ‘n Lang Dag which subsequently transferred to the Market Theatre. His debut with PACT was in The Comedy of Errors. He toured with Wild Honey for PACT. He has appeared in Die Ketter and Die Huigelaar (TRUK, 1986), Entertaining Mr Sloane, Die Prys, National Madness, Look Back in Anger, Wuthering Heights, The Real Inspector Hound and he starred in David Mamet’s Oleanna in 1993. *** The Bird Watchers (2014)
Directing
The Bird Watchers (2014)
Television and film
Television credits include Quartet and Playing With Fire.
Awards, etc
Recipient of the 1985 AA Mutual Life Vita Award for Best Newcomer for his role in Môre is ‘n Lang Dag.
In 1987 he won both the AA Vita and DALRO Best Actor Awards for Looking Glass.
Sources
Wild Honey programme notes, 1986.
Wuthering Heights programme notes, 1992.
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