A British stage and screen actor with strong Royal Shakespeare Company roots, William Houston is best known to film audiences for supporting roles in Guy Ritchie's 'Sherlock Holmes' (2009) and 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' (2011), and for 'Dracula Untold' (2014). A powerful classical performer, he has played leading Shakespearean parts on the British stage, from Hamlet to Coriolanus, while taking sturdy character roles on film and television. The Sussex-born actor brings theatrical intensity and a resonant voice to his work, an English actor whose reputation rests as much on the stage as the screen.
William Houston
Actor
Sussex, UKSussex, England, UK
Jul 19, 1968
Age58years
Movies20
Series14
A British stage and screen actor with strong Royal Shakespeare Company roots, William Houston is best known to film audiences for supporting roles in Guy Ritchie's 'Sherlock Holmes' (2009) and 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' (2011), and for 'Dracula Untold' (2014). A powerful classical performer, he has played leading Shakespearean parts on the British stage, from Hamlet to Coriolanus, while taking sturdy character roles on film and television. The Sussex-born actor brings theatrical intensity and a resonant voice to his work, an English actor whose reputation rests as much on the stage as the screen.