Ross Mullan
Ross Mullan, born 5 January 1967 is a Canadian-British actor and puppeteer. He is mostly known for his work portraying the White Walker on HBO's Game of Thrones in its second through fourth seasons. He has appeared in episodes of Doctor Who and in the 2010 film Clash of the Titans.
Early life
Mullan grew up in Montreal and attended Children’s Theater in the West End of Montreal. Later he did the theater program at John Abbott College and then Ryerson University for their Theater program.[1]
Career
Canada
After completing University he moved to Ottawa and worked at the Oddyssey theater developing skills in mask and puppet movement theater.
UK
Mullan moved to the UK on a whim after going there on vacation. He immediately started touring with theater companies all over Europe, the Middle East, and Asia doing musical productions of David Copperfield, Gulliver’s Travels and Sherlock Holmes. He later transitioned to television doing puppet for a show called Dinotopia, the effects department wanted someone to animate this dinosaur and make it emote like a person.
Ross also played Orsino in l, Bath Theatre Royal's production of Twelfth Night, the title role of the Selfish Giant for Leicester Haymarket Theatre and brought the critically acclaimed play Thick from the Edinburgh festival to New York City with sold out performances.
Ross played the role of the 'Numbertaker' in the children's show, Numberjacks. The Numbertaker is a parody of The Undertaker, and is a live-action man (with an exaggerated top hat and a white robe), who removes numbers (or numbers of things).
More recent work includes playing Pemphredo, one of the three blind Stygian witches, in Clash of the Titans (2010); the White Walker on Game of Thrones; one of the werewolves in Howl; and The Silence and The Teller on Doctor Who.[2]
He is currently the voice of Nev the Bear on CBBC's Bear Behaving Badly.[2]
References
- ↑ Finestone, Nathaniel (12 August 2014). "Manchester Comicon–How to catch a White Walker in his Natural Habitat". The Prince Arthur Herald. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
- 1 2 Souppouris, Aaron (June 17, 2014). "Becoming a White Walker: how one man turns into a terrifying Game of Thrones villain". The Verge. Retrieved June 1, 2015.