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Who Played King Lear in King Lear

King Lear is a role in King Lear, a play that opened West End in 2018.

Two ageing fathers - one a King, one his courtier - reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with shocking ends. Tender, brutal, moving and epic, King Lear is considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written.

8 actors have played King Lear in King Lear.

View full cast of King Lear

Performer Production Opened
Hal Holbrook Off-Broadway King Lear 1990
Kevin Kline Off-Broadway King Lear 2007
Sam Waterston Off-Broadway King Lear 2011
John Lithgow Off-Broadway King Lear 2014
Glenda Jackson West End King Lear 2016
Ian McKellen West End King Lear 2018
Glenda Jackson Broadway King Lear 2019
Kenneth Branagh West End King Lear 2023
Kenneth Branagh Off-Broadway King Lear 2024
Michael Potts Off-Broadway King Lear 2026

Other Roles in King Lear

Role Production Opened
Albany West End King Lear 2018
Albany's Man West End King Lear 2018
British Captain West End King Lear 2018
Burgundy West End King Lear 2018
Cordelia West End King Lear 2018
Cornwall West End King Lear 2018
Curan West End King Lear 2018
Doctor West End King Lear 2018
Edgar West End King Lear 2018
Edmund West End King Lear 2018
Ensemble West End King Lear 2018
Fool West End King Lear 2018
Gentleman Informer West End King Lear 2018
Gloucester West End King Lear 2018
Goneril West End King Lear 2018
Kent West End King Lear 2018
King Lear West End King Lear 2018
King of France West End King Lear 2018
Lear's Knight West End King Lear 2018
Old Man West End King Lear 2018
Oswald West End King Lear 2018
Regan West End King Lear 2018

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