Nicholas Farrell
- Acting
- Brentwood, Essex, England, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Charles Frost, in September 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Past Life · Elliot Reed
- Creditors · Adolf
- The Count of Monte Cristo · Morrel
- A Toast to Love · Professor Dale Farringdon
- Widow Clicquot · Jean-Remy Moet
- Fool Me Once · Neville Lockwood
- Bodies · Chief Inspector Paxman
- The Gold · Jim Clark
- A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story · Ebenezer Scrooge
- Everything I Know About Love · Graham
- Signora Volpe · Michael Priest / Henry Fox, Michael Priest
- Munich - The Edge of War · Sir Alexander Cadogan
- Dream Horse · Philip Hobbs
- The Nevers · Prince Albrecht
- White House Farm · Nevill Bamber
- Christmas in the Highlands · Duke of Glenmorie
- The Man Who Saw Too Much · Yurka Galitzine (Voice)
- The Coldest Game · G. Moran
- Cosmos Within Us · Aiken
- Hurricane · Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
- White Chamber · Dr. Edgar Chrystler
- Lies We Tell · Anthony Quest
- Will · Sir Francis Walsingham
- Another Mother's Son · De La Haye
- Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher · Samuel Harris
- The Crown · Michael Shea
- Mindhorn · Mayor
- Tear Me Apart · Old Man (Voice)
- Finding Altamira · Vilanova
- Thirteen · Henry Stone
- Remainder · Daubenay
- Nipplejesus · Silver Fox
- Legend · Dr Humphries
- Napoleon's Waterloo · Narrator
- Robot Overlords · Sentry Robot/Air Drone (Voice)
- Mortdecai · Auctioneer
- Testament of Youth · Headmaster
- Siblings · Charles
- Grace of Monaco · Jean-Charles Rey
- 37 Days · Eyre Crowe
- Summer in February · Mr. Carter-Wood
- Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings · General von Thoma
- Endeavour · Sir Alexander Lermontov
- The Village · Crispin Rose
- Jo
- Father Brown · Sir Raleigh Beresford
- Secret State · General Munnery
- Call the Midwife · Charles Newgarden
- The Iron Lady · Airey Neave
- Death in Paradise · Nicholas Dunham
- Late Bloomers · Francis
- Going Postal 2in1 · Mr. Pump (Voice)
- Going Postal · Mr. Pump
- The Diary of Anne Frank · Albert Dussel
- Fiona's Story · Edward
- Casualty 1900s · Sydney Holland
- Talk to Me · Harry
- Persuasion · Mr. Musgrove
- Amazing Grace · Henry Thornton
- Lewis · Charles Milner
- Torchwood · Brian Green
- Driving Lessons · Robert
- Suburban Shootout · Raymond
- Jericho · Charles Hewitt
- Red Mercury · Minister
- The Minoans · Readings (Voice)
- Prometheus Bound · Prometheus (Voice)
- New Tricks · James Winslow
- Reversals · Edward Leitch
- The Third Wave · Devlin
- Foyle's War · James Collier
- Sparkhouse · Paul Lawton
- Spooks · Richard Maynard
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries · Sam Oborne
- Rockface · Duncan McFadden
- Bait · Alfred White
- The Jury · Jeremy Crawford
- Bloody Sunday · Brigadier Maclellan
- Charlotte Gray · Mr. Jackson
- Arthur's Dyke · Geoffrey