Linus William Roache is a British actor. He is known for playing Executive ADA Michael Cutter in the NBC dramas Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. More recently, Roache played Ecbert, King of Wessex in Vikings from 2014 to 2017.
Where did Linus Roache go to high school?
Roache was born in Manchester, England, the son of Coronation Street actor William Roache and actress Anna Cropper. Roache was educated at Bishop Luffa School in Chichester, West Sussex, and Rydal School in Colwyn Bay in north Wales. He studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Roache began a career in films while remaining active in television and on stage. In 1994 he received acclaim for his leading role in Antonia Bird’s Priest. He went on to star opposite Helena Bonham Carter in the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove and to play the role of Thomas Wayne, father of Batman, in Batman Begins (2005).
