Valentine Pelka | The Queen of Swords

Valentine Pelka | The Queen of Swords

Colonel Luis Ramirez Montoya

The original biography for Valentine Pelka...

Valentine Pelka
On QUEEN OF SWORDS, Valentine Pelka plays Colonel Luis Montoya, a military governer who rules with an iron fist, abusing his power and taxing his subjects to the point of starvation. The Machiavellian tyrant is the masked avenger’s primary enemy, a believer in executions without trials, enslaving peasants and blackmailing even his best men.

Pelka is an alumnus of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where, in addition to his stage training, he received stage combat training under the direction of John Walller. While at the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company, the Dewsbury, West Yorkshite native played leading roles in Romeo and Juliet and A Woman Killed with Kindness, as well as performed a one-man show entitled Maud. A familiar figure on British stage and screen, he has appeared in Nanou, If tomorrow Comes, Hold the Dream and Good King Wenceslas.

Pelka’s film credits have seen him appearing with Albert Finney in John- Paul II, with Jason Robards and Glenda Jackson in Sakharov, with the late Sir Alec Guiness in Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote, opposite Hugh Grant in the award-winning Rowing with the Wind and with Richard Gere in King David. He had a memorable turn as Sir Patrise in First Knight with Sean Connery, and appeared with Parker Posey in the indie What Rats Won’t Do. Pelka recently finished principal photography on The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, starring alongside Sir Ian Holm and Dame Judi Drench.

His noble British television appearances include Peak Practice, Mortimer’s Law, Brother Cadfael, Campion and Robin of Sherwood. He played Maurice de Bracy in A&E’s Ivanhoe, as well as had recurring roles as the wildly popular Kronos on Highlander: The Series, as Korda on Highlander: the Raven and on Life Force.

A creative force, Pelka also draws and paints, hoping to show his work publicly in the near future. A lover of 19th century literature, the actor has a degree in Humanities and speaks French, Italian and some Spanish. Husband and father to a son, Pelka is a student of Aikido since 1993, a proficient horseman and an enthusiastic and life-long supporter of the Leeds United Soccer Team.

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The original biography for Valentine Pelka...
	Valentine Pelka On QUEEN OF SWORDS, Valentine Pelka plays Colonel Luis Montoya, a military governer who rules with an iron fist, abusing his power and taxing his subjects to the point of starvation. The Machiavellian tyrant is the masked avenger’s primary enemy, a believer in executions without trials, enslaving peasants and blackmailing even his best men.
Pelka is an alumnus of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where, in addition to his stage training, he received stage combat training under the direction of John Walller. While at the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company, the Dewsbury, West Yorkshite native played leading roles in Romeo and Juliet and A Woman Killed with Kindness, as well as performed a one-man show entitled Maud. A familiar figure on British stage and screen, he has appeared in Nanou, If tomorrow Comes, Hold the Dream and Good King Wenceslas. Pelka’s film credits have seen him appearing with Albert Finney in John- Paul II, with Jason Robards and Glenda Jackson in Sakharov, with the late Sir Alec Guiness in Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote, opposite Hugh Grant in the award-winning Rowing with the Wind and with Richard Gere in King David. He had a memorable turn as Sir Patrise in First Knight with Sean Connery, and appeared with Parker Posey in the indie What Rats Won’t Do. Pelka recently finished principal photography on The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, starring alongside Sir Ian Holm and Dame Judi Drench. His noble British television appearances include Peak Practice, Mortimer’s Law, Brother Cadfael, Campion and Robin of Sherwood. He played Maurice de Bracy in A&E’s Ivanhoe, as well as had recurring roles as the wildly popular Kronos on Highlander: The Series, as Korda on Highlander: the Raven and on Life Force. A creative force, Pelka also draws and paints, hoping to show his work publicly in the near future. A lover of 19th century literature, the actor has a degree in Humanities and speaks French, Italian and some Spanish. Husband and father to a son, Pelka is a student of Aikido since 1993, a proficient horseman and an enthusiastic and life-long supporter of the Leeds United Soccer Team.