Michael McElhatton

ActorWriter Sep 12 (age 62) Terenure, Dublin, Ireland 1996–2025 (29 year career)

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Biography

Michael McElhatton (born 12 September 1963) is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for playing the role of Roose Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He joined the series as a guest star in the second season, and continued to play this role until the sixth season, promoted to a regular cast member from the fifth season onwards.

Known For

Film

Game of Thrones

Roose Bolton

Film

Chernobyl

Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin

Film

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Black Clad Alpha

Film

Togo

Jafet Lindeberg

Film

The Last Duel

Bernard de Latour

Film

Justice League

Black Clad Alpha

Film

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Sheriff Sheldon

Film

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Jack's Eye

Filmography

Acting (74)

Movies (54)

The Ghastly Ghoul

2023

as Orson

8.0

Zack Snyder's Justice League

as Black Clad Alpha

The Last Duel

as Bernard de Latour

Arracht

as Lieutenant

The Winter Lake

as Ward

Togo

as Jafet Lindeberg

The Last Right

as Frank Delaney

Agatha and the Truth of Murder

2018

as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Boy Saint

as Poem Narrator

The Overcoat

as Petrovich (voice)

Captain Morten and the Spider Queen

as Felix (voice)

Justice League

as Black Clad Alpha

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

as Jack's Eye

The Foreigner

as Jim Kavanagh

The Zookeeper's Wife

as Jerzyk

Handsome Devil

as Walter Curly

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

as Sheriff Sheldon

Mammal

as Matt

Norm of the North

as Laurence (voice)

The Siege of Jadotville

as General McEntee

The Hallow

as Colm Donnelly

The Legend of Longwood

as Black Knight

Shadow Dancer

as Liam Hughes

Albert Nobbs

as Mr. Moore

Death of a Superhero

as James Clarke

Parked

as Frank

The Santa Incident

as Ross

Pentecost

as Pat Lynch

Perrier's Bounty

as Ivan

The Man Inside

Fifty Dead Men Walking

as Robbie

Spacemen Three

My Boy Jack

as Leo Amery MP

Mickybo and Me

as Mechanic

Adam & Paul

as Martin (voice)

God's Early Work

The Actors

as Jock

Intermission

as Sam

The Strange Case of The Irish Crown Jewels

2003

as narrator

Ape

2003

as Dandy (Voice)

Spin the Bottle

as Rats

Waterloo Dentures

Blow Dry

as Robert

Saltwater

as John Traynor

Vicious Circle

as Garrett

Guy's Dog

1999

as Voice

7.0

Crush Proof

1998

as Detective Sergeant Hogan

Just in Time

I Went Down

as Johnner Doyle

All Souls' Day

November Afternoon

as John

The Bard

The Death Notice of Eamonn McCarty

as Eamonn McCarty

Underworld

as Jimmy

Television (20)

House of Guinness

2025

as John Potter

7.5

Invasion: The Normans

2024

as Narrator

The Long Shadow

as CC Ronald Gregory

Dangerous Liaisons

as Jean de Merteuil

The Wheel of Time

as Tam al'Thor

Chernobyl

as Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin

8.7

DNA Journey

2019

as Self - Narrator (voice)

6.0

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

as Bill Tuttle

The Alienist

as Dr. Markoe

Genius

as Philipp Lenard

Genius

as Jonas Salk

New Worlds

as John Hawkins

The Fall

as Rob Breedlove

The Ice Cream Girls

as Brian

Titanic: Blood and Steel

as Albert Hatton

Game of Thrones

as Roose Bolton

Game of Thrones

as Roose Bolton

Killinaskully

as Ghost of Christmas Present

Rebel Heart

as Cathal Brugha

Paths to Freedom

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Spin the Bottle

2003

Writer

6.0