Colin Hurley

Biography

Collin Hurley is an English actor and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, and the Shakespeare's Globe company, specialising in performing the works of William Shakespeare. Born in Leicester, Hurley first became interested in acting at Alderman Newton's Boys' School when he played Le Beau in As You Like It before going on to act in youth theatre, school plays and amateur dramatic societies. On leaving school in 1969 he spent ten years working in repertory theatres around the United Kingdom when his roles included the title role in Hamlet, Nero in Britannicus, Gus in The Dumb Waiter, Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer, (Salisbury Playhouse), Ariel in The Tempest (Gateway Theatre, Chester), the title role in Henry V, The Black Prince in Edward III (Theatr Clwyd), Pip in Great Expectations (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich) and Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (Bristol Old Vic). He also worked with Communicado and The Custard Factory, playing Tyresius in Antigone, Johnnie in Hello and Goodbye, and the Farrant twins in Corpse! for Vienna's English Theatre. He then studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 1981.

Most Known For

Peak Practice

as Keith Jordan

Flowers

as Barry

Flowers

as Barry / Piotr

The Chief

as Ray Murray

Black Pond

as Blake

Henry V

as Grandpre

David Copperfield

as David Copperfield

Twelfth Night

as Sir Toby Belch

The Darkest Universe

as Arthur

Hamlet - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

as Ghost

Measure for Measure: Live from the Globe

as Lucio

The Storyteller: The True Bride

as Prisoner 1