John Hannah Biography

John David Hannah (born 23 April 1962) is a Scottish film and television actor. He came to prominence in Richard Curtis's Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and has since appeared alongside Gwyneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors (1998) and in Stephen Sommers' Mummy series (1999, 2001, 2008). His television roles include: Dr Iain McCallum in McCallum (1995"1998); D.I. John Rebus in Rebus (2000"2001); Jack Roper in New Street Law (2006"2007); Jake Osbourne in Cold Blood (2007"2008), Jack Cloth in A Touch of Cloth and Quintus Lentulus Batiatus in Spartacus (2010"2011).

Early life

Hannah was born in East Kilbride in Lanarkshire, the youngest of three children: he has two older sisters. His mother, Susan, was a cleaner at Marks & Spencer, and his father, John, a toolmaker. He attended Heathery Knowe Primary School then Claremont High School in East Kilbride and went on to an apprenticeship as an electrician. In East Kilbride, he participated in the East Kilbride Rep Theatre Club. At the suggestion of a colleague, he completed his apprenticeship and then attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Career

After graduation, Hannah had parts in theatre productions, films, and television, which included leading roles. He broke into the "big-time" with his appearance as Matthew in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). Since this breakthrough role, he has played a psychopathic killer alongside Helen Baxendale in Truth or Dare and a mystery-solving pathologist in McCallum. He played a karaoke-mad dead-beat dad in The James Gang, a drunken, thieving comic-relief character in The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), and a Monty Python-quoting romantic comedy love interest in Sliding Doors (1998). He also starred in the axed U.S. series MDs (2002), as well as making guest appearances in Alias (2001), Carnivàle (2002) and Frasier (2003). In 2006 he starred in the drama series New Street Law. In 2007-2008, he played a starring role in the ITV crime drama Cold Blood.

On 24 December 1997, Hannah and Scottish Films producer Murray Ferguson established a production company called Clerkenwell Films. Clerkenwell's first big production was the Rebus series, including Black And Blue and The Hanging Garden. However, Rebus was later taken in-house by STV Productions, and Hannah was replaced in the leading role in the series by Ken Stott. He is the voice of the The Co-operative Group adverts in the UK. More recently he played the part of Quintus Lentulus Batiatus, the owner of a gladiator training house in Spartacus: Blood and Sand, and its prequel, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena.

Personal life

Hannah married actress Joanna Roth on 20 January 1996. The pair met several years before during a studio production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. In many of his interviews he mentions stories from their relationship, such as the visit to London's 'Sri Siam' restaurant where he proposed to her in writing on the tablecloth. They live in Richmond, London with their two children.

Soon after his role as the epileptic police officer Franky Drinkall in Out Of The Blue, he showed his support for the Epilepsy Association of Scotland. He was, for a long time, a spokesman for Oxfam's Cut Conflict Campaign.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Brond	Robert	TV film
1990	Harbour Beat	Neal McBride
1994	Milner	Windscreen washer	TV film
	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Matthew
	Faith	Nick Simon	TV film
	Pauline Calf's Wedding Video	Mark	TV film
1995	Madagascar Skin	Harry
1996	Circles of Deceit: Kalon	Jason Sturden	TV film
	Truth or Dare	Nick	TV film
	The Innocent Sleep	James
	The Final Cut	Gilmore
1997	The James Gang	Spendlove James
	The Love Bug	Simon Moore III	TV film
	Romance and Rejection	Tony
1998	Sliding Doors	James
	Resurrection Man	Darkie Larche
1999	The Mummy	Jonathan Carnahan
	The Hurricane	Terry Swinton
	The Intruder	Charlie
2000	Circus	Leo
	Pandaemonium	William Wordsworth
2001	The Mummy Returns	Jonathan Carnahan
2002	Camouflage	Man invited	Short film
	Before You Go	Mike Pennington
	I'm with Lucy	Doug
2003	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
	I Accuse	Dr. Richard Darian
2004	Male Man	Alan	Short film
	Amnesia	D.S. Mackenzie Stone	TV film
2005	Cold Blood	Jake Osbourne	TV film
2007	Cold Blood 2	Jake Osbourne	TV film
	Ghost Son	Mark
	The Last Legion	Nestor
2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor	Jonathan Carnahan
	Zip 'n Zoo	Tom	Short film
2012	The Wee Man	Tam McGraw
	The Words	Richard Ford
2013	Still Waters	Lapslie	filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Bookie	Johnny Dawson	3 episodes
	Screen Two	?	1 episode
1990	Taggart	Danny Bonnar	1 episode
	Boon	Willie Connolly	1 episode
1991	Shrinks	Hamish	1 episode
1992	The Bill	Derek Pierce	1 episode
	Between the Lines	D.C. Mellis	1 episode
1993	Paul Calf's Video Diary	Mark	TV Short
1994	Capital Lives	D.S Frank Drinkall	6 episodes
1995	Out of the Blue	John Robinson	1 episode
1995"1998	McCallum	Dr. Iain McCallum	8 episodes
2000"2001	Rebus	D.I. John Rebus	4 episodes
2001	Alias	Martin Shepard	2 episodes
2002	MDs	Dr. Robert Dalgety	10 episodes
2003	Frasier	Avery McManus	1 episode
	Carnivàle	Strangler	2 episodes
2004	Agatha Christie's Marple ("4.50 from Paddington")	Inspector John Campbell	single drama
2005	Sea of Souls	John Wade	2 episodes
2006"2007	New Street Law	Jack Roper	14 episodes
2007	Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea	Prof. Ian Holbourn	TV Documentary
2008	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Dr. Gerard	1 episode
2010	Spartacus: Blood and Sand	Quintus Lentulus Batiatus	13 episodes
2011	Kidnap and Ransom	Alexander Willard	2 episodes
	Spartacus: Gods of the Arena	Quintus Lentulus Batiatus	6 episodes
2012	The Other Wife	Richard Kendall	1 episode
	Damages	Rutger Simon	10 episodes
2013	Elementary	Rhys	1 episode
2012"2013	A Touch of Cloth	D.I. Jack Cloth	4 episodes

Video Games

Year	Title	Role
2008	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor	Jonathan Carnahan