Gideon Emery

**Gideon Emery** is an English actor and singer. He is best known for portraying Deucalion, an Augmented Alpha werewolf, in the MTV series *Teen Wolf*. In addition to acting, Gideon is also well known for his work as a voice actor for films and video games, and is an accomplished jazz musician and singer.

## Career

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. As a result, fellow cast member, veteran actor Bill Flynn introduced him to his agent and his career was started. Around this time, he also began what was to become a prolific voice career. (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, often performing multiple roles within a single play, such as all the male roles in Mark Ravenhill's *Sleeping Around* 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*. He received the National Vita Award for Comedy for the role of Maloom in the play *Heel Against the Head*, once again alongside Bill Flynn and actor/playwright Paul Slabolepszy. Emery has also performed his own one-man plays, *Thin Man Talking* 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 *Street Fighter X Tekken*. 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.

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.

## Trivia

* Though Gideon was born in Windsor, England, his family moved to Johannesburg, South Africa when he was four years old. He ultimately returned to South Africa to attend St. John's College, where he began a very successful stage career.
* Gideon now lives in Los Angeles, California, United States with his wife, Autumn Withers, and their dogs.
* He released a jazz album called *Standard Ease* in 2011.

## External links

* Official Website
* Gideon Emery on Wikipedia
* Gideon Emery on the Internet Movie Database
* Gideon Emery on Twitter
* Gideon Emery on Facebook
* Blogger

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