Gideon Emery

British actor

Gideon Emery (born 12 September 1972) is an English actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Deucalion in Teen Wolf and for providing voice over work in video games, television series and films.

Emery was born to Pauline, a competitive horse rider and Ashton, a management consultant. He has two half brothers, Matthew and Paul. Gideon also has three nieces, Chloe Emery, Rebecca Emery and Kate Emery. 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. On 7 April 2018, they welcomed their daughter, Mia Monroe Emery.

In his third year of drama school, friend Ashley Callie was going to audition for Johannesburg's annual Christmas pantomime, directed by the award winning 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. (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, 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. 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. Thanks to his keen ear for accents, Emery found himself playing various roles in visiting British and American film and television productions. He soon 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 memorable 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. On the lighter side, 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, Shameless, Last Resort, Good Behavior and Scream: Resurrection. In 2020, Emery joined the cast of Netflix series Dash & Lily as Lily's father.

Year Title Role Notes Source 1995 Not Quite Friday Night Various Recurring   1995 Honeytown II Taylor Recurring   1996 Rhodes Allan Wilson 2 episodes   1999 Saints, Sinners and Settlers Sgt. Williamson Episode: ""The Good Doctor: Trial of H. F. Verwoerd"   2003 Red Water Gene Bradley Television film 2005 Commander in Chief Jared Lyons Episode: "First Disaster"   2007 24 Leon Episode: "Day 6: 6:00pm – 7:00pm"   2007 Passions Max 2 episodes   2007 Moonlight Donovan Shepherd Episode: "12:04 AM"   2008 General Hospital Jasper "Jax" Jacks 3 episodes   2008 CSI: NY Christopher Vackner Episode: "Admissions"   2008 The Middleman Vlad the Impaler Episode: "The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation"   2009 Eleventh Hour Brandon Hertle Episode: "Miracle"   2009 90210 Kevin Episode: "Off the Rails"   2009 Burn Notice Sean Glenanne Episode: "Long Way Back"   2010 The Forgotten Sean Hennessey Episode: "Double Doe"   2010 Castle Lloyd Saunders Episode: "Almost Famous"   2011 The Mentalist Owen Melling Episode: "The Red Mile"   2011 NCIS: Los Angeles Jeff Kinto Episode: "Rocket Man"   2012 Last Resort Booth 3 episodes   2013–17 Teen Wolf Deucalion 18 episodes   2013 True Blood Justin Episode: "Fuck the Pain Away"   2013 NCIS Rudolph Stalin Episode: "Gut Check"   2013 Beverly Hills Cop Lyle Hawes Pilot   2014 Shameless Professor Moss 3 episodes   2015 Grimm Damien Barso Episode: "Trial by Fire"   2015 E&N with Ed Neusbit Ed Neusbit Web seriesAlso creator   2015 Daredevil Anatoly Ranskahov Episodes: "Into the Ring", "In the Blood"   2016–17 Good Behavior Silk 4 episodes   2016 Chicago P. D. Wade McGregor Episode: " All Cylinders Firing"   2018 S. W. A. T. Gunnar Cade Episode: "Seizure"   2019 Scream: Resurrection Officer T. Reynolds 5 episodes   2019 Blue Bloods Daniel Shapiro Episode: "The Price You Pay"   2020 The Blacklist Edward Lussier Episode: "Twamie Ullulaq"   2020 Dash & Lily Adam Recurring   2023 Wolf Pack Malcolm 2 episodes

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

Year Title Author Notes Source 2008 Playing the Enemy John Carlin     2008 Tell Me a Story 2 Amy Friedman Narrates "Kerplunk"   2009 Operation Kronstadt Harry Ferguson     2009 The Bottom Billion Paul Collier     2009 The Jennifer Morgue Charles Stross     2009 The Atrocity Archive Charles Stross     2009 The Resident Member Paul Marlowe Narrates the role of Litchfield   2009 The Price of Love and Other Stories Peter Robinson Narrates "The Magic of Your Touch", "Shadows on the Water" and "The Cherub Affair"   2009 The Genesis Secret Tom Knox     2009 Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys Neil Oliver     2009 The Boat Nam Le Narrates "Halflead Bay"   2009 Enough Already Peter Walsh     2010 The Fuller Memorandum Charles Stross     2010 From Hell With Love Simon R. Green     2010 Ordinary Thunderstorms William Boyd     2010 Rogue Farm Charles Stross     2010 Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us John Quiggin     2011 Size Matters Not Warwick Davis     2011 Hell Ship Philip Palmer Narrates the role of Sharrock   2011 For Heaven's Eyes Only Simon R. Green     2011 Kiteworld Keith Roberts     2012 The Apocalypse Codex Charles Stross     2012 Live and Let Drood Simon R. Green     2013 Overtime Charles Stross     2013 Down on the Farm Charles Stross     2013 Casino Infernale Simon R. Green     2013 Biggles: The Authorised Biography John Pearson     2013 The Lady From Guatemala V. S. Pritchett Narrates "The Wedding"   2013 Tor. com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008 2012 Various Authors Contributing narrator   2014 Palimpsest Charles Stross     2014 The Rhesus Chart Charles Stross     2014 Property of a Lady Faire Simon R. Green     2014 Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius John Carlin     2014 Live and Let Drood Simon R. Green     2014 Wireless Charles Stross     2015 Zero World Jason M. Hough     2015 Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling     2015 The Illegal Lawrence Hill     2015 From a Drood To a Kill Simon R. Green     2016 Dr. DOA Simon R. Green     2016 The Nightmare Stacks Charles Stross     2017 Cruel Is the Night Karo Hamalainen Narrates the role of Robert   2017 The Delirium Brief Charles Stross     2017 The Duchess Danielle Steel     2017 Moonbreaker Simon R. Green     2018 My Name Is Nathan Lucius Mark Winkler     2020 The Down Days Ilze Hugo Co narrator with Bianca Amato   2020 Dead Lies Dreaming Charles Stross     2021 The Best Thing You Can Steal Simon R. Green     2022 Escape From Yokai Land Charles Stross     2022 A Matter of Death and Life Simon R. Green