George Asprey

George Asprey is a British stage, film, and television character actor. Since 2008, Asprey has played the part of Scar in the West End Theatre production of the musical The Lion King. At the age of twenty, he was one of nineteen new students accepted out of some 2,500 applicants to London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).

Soon after leaving LAMDA, Asprey was cast as Sean Devereux in the television film The Dying of the Light (1992). He next appeared as a policeman in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).

In 1995, Asprey was cast as Tony Patterson, a promiscuous hairdresser, in the ITV television serial An Independent Man. In 2003 he played Doc Holliday in a BBC production, in 2016 appeared as Walter Monckton in The Crown, and in 2021 played Jonathon Rees QC in Four Lives.

Asprey's longest-running part on stage is as Scar in the West End production of The Lion King, which he began to play in 2008 and was still performing in October 2019 when the production had to close in March 2020 due to the  Pandemic. It reopened at the Lyceum Theatre in July 2021, with Asprey returning as Scar.