Gideon Emery (born September 12, 1972) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Deucalion in Teen Wolf and starring as himself in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. His career also includes providing voice-over work in video games, television series and films, notably as Fenris in Dragon Age II.
Early life and education Emery was born to Pauline, a competitive horse rider and Ashton, a management consultant. He has two half-brothers. At the age of 4, his father moved the family to Johannesburg, South Africa. Emery kept himself amused by imitating characters from film and television. Early impersonations included Michael Jackson and Max from Hart to Hart. He returned to England during high school, briefly attending Reading Blue Coat School. But it was back in South Africa at St John's College where he cemented his love for acting, playing Dick Deadeye in the Gilbert & Sullivan musical H.M.S. Pinafore and winning Best Actor for the role of Mr. Glum in The Glums comedy sketch, "L'Engagement". After briefly considering a career in graphic art, he went on to study acting at the University of the Witwatersrand. Student roles included Salieri in Amadeus and Gregor in Steven Berkoff's adaption of Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Personal life On 19 October 2014, Emery married actress Autumn Withers in Santa Barbara, California. They live in Los Angeles and have a child.
Career In his third year of drama school, friend Ashley Callie was going to audition for Johannesburg's annual Christmas pantomime, directed by Janice Honeyman. Emery was persuaded to go along and ended up being cast. He played a couple of characters, but impressed with his stand-up routine during a set change. As a result, fellow cast member, veteran actor Bill Flynn introduced him to his agent and his career was started. Around this time, he also began what was to become a prolific voice career. (He would later win a Gold Craft Award at the 2003 Loerie Advertising Awards) He played in a number of stand-up venues and established himself as character actor, often performing multiple roles within a single play, such as all the male roles in Mark Ravenhill's Sleeping AroundThe Star Tonight, "How'd They Do That?", Garalt MacLiam; August 1999 and Tom, Leslie and Phyllis in A.R. Gurney's Sylvia.
He performed standup comedy on television and was a series regular on the sketch comedy show Not Quite Friday Night. He received the National Vita Award for Comedy for the role of Maloom in the play Heel Against the Head, once again alongside Bill Flynn and actor/playwright Paul Slabolepszy. Emery has also performed his own one-man plays, Thin Man Talking and The Great Glendini. For the latter, he recorded a jazz standards album, Standard Ease. He acted alongside the late Bill Flynn for a third and final time, playing Bernard to Flynn's Willy Loman in the award-winning Baxter Theatre production of Death of a Salesman.
Emery found himself playing various roles in visiting British and American film and television productions. He decided that the screen was where he wanted to focus his attention. With most major projects casting their lead roles overseas, he decided it was time to explore more diverse opportunities. In late 2003, he moved to Los Angeles, where he has played characters both on screen (Last Resort, Takers, Moonlight, Burn Notice) and for video games such as Final Fantasy XII, Vanquish, Dragon Age II and Tekken series (starting from Tekken 6 – present). He is an in-demand motion capture performer and can be seen and heard in the games Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Battlefield 3 and Halo Wars 2, all of which also use his likeness. He has also narrated over 50 audiobooks.
Emery had a recurring role on the hit MTV series Teen Wolf as season three's main antagonist Deucalion, a blind but powerful Alpha werewolf who leads a pack consisting entirely of Alphas. Emery reprised the role in season five: "To prove not only to others, but also to himself, that Deucalion is capable of being true and noble." He would return once again for the final season of the show. He won multiple best actor awards for his role as Richard Pine in Bill Hanson's adaptation of Stephen King's Survivor Type. Emery is the creator, director and star of E&N with Ed Neusbit, a comedic news parody show offering "all the news you never knew you needed". Other recurring roles include Daredevil, Wolf Pack, Dash & Lily, Shameless, Last Resort, Good Behavior and Scream: Resurrection.
Filmography Live-action roles Film Year Title Role Notes Source Great Soldiers Bowers Glory Glory Sil Diamond Cut Diamond Paddy The Sorcerer's Apprentice Sly A Case of Murder Eric Norkem Cape of Good Hope Miles Primeval Matt Collins Almaz Black Box Wesley Abbot Greetings from the Shore Sasha Mientkciewicz Train Willy Takers Sergei Blue Crush 2 Joel Survivor Type Richard Pine Short film Avalanche Greg 100 Days to Live Victor Quinn Cabin Fever Thieleman G20 Warren Paxton Lee Cronin's The Mummy Vogel
Television Year Title Role Notes Source Not Quite Friday Night Various Recurring Honeytown II Taylor Recurring Rhodes Allan Wilson 2 episodes Saints, Sinners and Settlers Sgt. Williamson Episode: ""The Good Doctor: Trial of H.F. Verwoerd" 2003 Red Water Gene Bradley Television film Commander in Chief Jared Lyons Episode: "First Disaster" 24 Leon Episode: "Day 6: 6:00pm – 7:00pm" Passions Max 2 episodes Moonlight Donovan Shepherd Episode: "12:04 AM" General Hospital Jasper "Jax" Jacks 3 episodes CSI: NY Christopher Vackner Episode: "Admissions" The Middleman Vlad the Impaler Episode: "The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation" Eleventh Hour Brandon Hertle Episode: "Miracle" 90210 Kevin Episode: "Off the Rails" Burn Notice Sean Glenanne Episode: "Long Way Back" The Forgotten Sean Hennessey Episode: "Double Doe" Castle Lloyd Saunders Episode: "Almost Famous" The Mentalist Owen Melling Episode: "The Red Mile" NCIS: Los Angeles Jeff Kinto Episode: "Rocket Man" Last Resort Booth 3 episodes –17 Teen Wolf Deucalion 18 episodes True Blood Justin Episode: "Fuck the Pain Away" NCIS Rudolph Stalin Episode: "Gut Check" Beverly Hills Cop Lyle Hawes Pilot Shameless Professor Moss 3 episodes Grimm Damien Barso Episode: "Trial by Fire" E&N with Ed Neusbit Ed Neusbit Web seriesAlso creator Daredevil Anatoly Ranskahov Episodes: "Into the Ring", "In the Blood" –17 Good Behavior Silk 4 episodes Chicago P.D. Wade McGregor Episode: " All Cylinders Firing" S.W.A.T. Gunnar Cade Episode: "Seizure" Scream: Resurrection Officer T. Reynolds 5 episodes Blue Bloods Daniel Shapiro Episode: "The Price You Pay" The Blacklist Edward Lussier Episode: "Twamie Ullulaq" Dash & Lily Adam Recurring Wolf Pack Malcolm 2 episodes
Theatre Play Role Stage Notes Source Dr. Lox Dr. Lox Zombie Joe's Underground Certified Male Alex Montecasino Theatre, Theatre on the Bay The Great Glendini Glendini Theatre on the Square One-man show Death of a Salesman Bernard Baxter Theatre Sleeping Around All Male Roles Theatre on the Square Lane and Abel Director Market Theatre Children of the Wolf Robin Alhambra Theatre, Theatre on the Bay Sylvia Tom, Leslie, Phyllis Alexander Theatre Thin Man Talking The Man National Arts Festival One-man show Not the Midnight Mass Dock Rd Theatre, Civic Theatre Heel Against the Head Ma Loom Civic Theatre, Baxter Theatre Legends Alive Various Supper Club Musical Heaven Can't Wait Various Theatre on the Track Musical The Fall of the House of Usher Roderick Usher Wits Theatre Sinbad's African Adventures Various Civic Theatre Pantomime With Incidental Music Attached Various Harper's A capella musical
Voice over roles Film Year Title Role Notes Source How to Train Your Dragon 2 Teeny Krampus Krampus Transformers: The Last Knight Knight of Iacon Uncredited Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay Sameer Park / Copperhead Direct-to-video How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World Trapper
Television Year Title Role Notes Source –10 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Lott Dod, Mee Deechi, Gotal, Kerch Kusi 6 episodes DC Super Friends Captain Cold –18 Tangled: The Series Weasel 7 episodes 2018 Avengers Assemble Moon Knight Episode: "Beyond" 2020 Aggretsuko Seiya English dub; Episode: "The Blessings of Life" 2024 Jurassic World: Chaos Theory Sullivan Episode: "Batten Down the Hatches"
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