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	As Ralph Wigram
	The son of British actors William Roache and Anna Cropper, Linus gained prominence with his strong performance as clergyman struggling with his vocation and his homosexuality in Antonia Bird's PRIEST (1994). While this film won critical acclaim, it was also the subject of controversy in the United States and so was better received in England. Roache began his career as a child, appearing as his father's son on the long-running British soap opera CORONATION STREET. After studying at a London drama school, he joined the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company where he performed the classics for four years. He joined the National Theatre in 1989 where he appeared in Sean O'Casey's JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK. Roache made his film debut in a small role in NO SURRENDER (1986). Director Antonia Bird had spotted Roache in drama school and remembered him when she was casting the title role in PRIEST. In 1997, he was teamed with Allison Elliot and Helena Bonham Carter as the journalist caught between the two in Iain Softley's adaptation of Henry James' novel "The Wings of the Dove." He appeared opposite Vincent Perez in the HBO movie SHOT THROUGH THE HEART (1998). Last year he portrayed Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to John Hannah's William Wordsworth in the BBC Films production PANDEMONIUM and acted onstage opposite Ralph Fiennes in CORIOLANUS and RICHARD III.

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