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Bernard Hill is known for his astounding, multifaceted acting career that has spanned nearly four decades on both sides of the Atlantic. He is now, perhaps, most recognizable as King Theoden of Rohan in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, a role that garnered him (and his fellow cast members) a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture. He will reprise that role later this year in the acclaimed trilogy's third and final installment, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Hill has starred in many top British feature films such as Mountains of the Moon and Shirley Valentine as well as American motion pictures, including Titanic (which earned him his first SAG nomination, along with the rest of the cast, for Outstanding Performance by a Cast), True Crime and The Ghost and the Darkness, among many others.

Born in Manchester, England, he made his English television debut in 1973 in Mike Leigh's first film, Hard Labour. Balancing stage, film and television work, Hill's other feature film credits include the films Gandhi, The Bounty, No Surrender, Blessed Art Thou, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Going Off Big Time, The Criminal and, more recently, The Scorpion King. He was also seen in the award-winning television productions of I, Claudius, director Jane Howell's Henry VI trilogy, Richard III, Antigone, Boys From the Black Stuff (for which he received the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Best Actor award), The Mill on the Floss and Great Expectations.