William Gaminara was born on 1956 and is a British actor, screenwriter and playwright, probably best known for playing pathologist Professor Leo Dalton on the television series Silent Witness, from 2002 to 2013.
11 Facts About William Gaminara
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William Gaminara's plays include According to Hoyle, The Three Lions and The Nightingales.
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William Gaminara was educated at Winchester College, Hampshire, England, and Lincoln College at the University of Oxford.
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William Gaminara played Dalton from 2002 until 2013, and reprised the role in 2017 in the final episode of series 20.
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William Gaminara describes the play as a "challenging and unconventional script which makes challenging and unconventional demands of an actor".
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Gardner, in The Guardian, describes William Gaminara as "suggesting both the charisma and the arrogance" of his character, and Dominic Maxwell, in a review for The Times, considers that William Gaminara "propels it all with conviction".
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Also in 2015, William Gaminara took the supporting role of General Groves in the premiere of Tom Morton-Smith's Oppenheimer by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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In 2016, he appeared in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People at the Chichester Festival Theatre, directed by Howard Davies; William Gaminara plays the principal antagonist Peter Stockmann "chillingly", according to Christopher Hart's review for The Sunday Times.
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William Gaminara plays Dr Richard Locke in the long-running radio soap opera, The Archers.
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Benedict Nightingale, in a review for The Times, writes that William Gaminara has a "gift for funny dialogue" and considers the play's conclusion to demonstrate the independence of his viewpoint.
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William Gaminara is married to Kate Lock, an actor; they have two sons.