The Biography

Colin Stinton (born March 10, 1947, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian actor whose career has spanned over four decades across stage, film, and television. He earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for his role in the U.S. premiere of Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad and played Mr. Robinson in both the London and New York stage productions of The Graduate. He made his screen debut in 1980 and has since accumulated over 100 credits. His most notable film roles include Dr. Dave Greenwalt in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Neal Daniels (CIA Deputy Director) in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Teddy Mayer in Rush (2013), a Customs Officer in Closer (2004), Inspector Rogers in The Machinist (2004), a Theoretical Physicist in Proof (2005), Daniel Burnham in The Current War (2017), a NORAD Colonel in Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), and Moscow Station Chief in All the Old Knives (2022). Other credits include The Verdict (1982), The Russia House (1990), Spy Game (2001), The Hours (2002), TransSiberian (2008), Borg vs. McEnroe (2017), and Hunter Killer (2018). On television, Stinton is best known as President Arthur Coleman Winters in the Doctor Who episode "The Sound of Drums" (2007), US Secretary of State Traynor Styles in Spooks (2006), Justice Robert H. Jackson in Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006), Anthony Markowitz in Broken News (2005, series regular), US Ambassador in Veep (2014), Dean Jackson in Outlander (2017), Lawrence Spivak in The Crown (2019), Chennault in The Queen's Gambit (2020), and Bastien in The Serpent (2021). He has also done extensive voice-over work for video games including Overwatch, Apex Legends, and RoboCop: Rogue City.