Nicholas Farrell
Known For
Acting
Born
1955-01-01 in Essex, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Frost, in 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park. In 1984, he appeared in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Jewel in the Crown. Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet , in which he played Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (1996), Othello (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995). He provided the voice of Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot movies, Sharpe's Regiment, To Play the King, Torchwood and Collision. He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey and Casualty. Farrell's theatre work includes performances of The Cherry Orchard, Camille, and The Crucible as well as Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He is married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Farrell, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Midsomer Murders
as Isaac Starling
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Donald Fraser
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Knighton
Death in Paradise
as Nicholas Dunham
The Crown
as Michael Shea
Call the Midwife
as Charles Newgarden
Father Brown
as Sir Raleigh Beresford
Silent Witness
as Professor Adrian Cowley
Endeavour
as Sir Alexander Lermontov
Foyle's War
as James Collier
Casualty
as Phil Byron
Heartbeat
as Traumatised Man / Buckley
Spooks
as Richard Maynard
BBC Play of the Month
as Larion Surzhansky
Lewis
as Charles Milner
Waking the Dead
as Douglas Malham
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Morrel
The Nevers
as Prince Albrecht
Torchwood
as Brian Green
New Tricks
as James Winslow