Name
Nicholas Farrell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
(56 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
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- 2015 Legend as Dr Humphries
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- 2001 Pearl Harbor as RAF Squadron Leader
- 2004 Prometheus Bound as Prometheus (voice)
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- 2005 Red Mercury as Minister
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- 2018 Lies We Tell as Anthony Quest
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- 2004 New Tricks ( 1 episode ) as James Winslow
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- 2013 Jo ( 1 episode )
- 2007 Lewis ( 1 episode ) as Charles Milner
- 2001 Waking the Dead ( 2 episodes ) as Douglas Malham
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- 2022 Everything I Know About Love ( 2 episodes ) as Graham
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- 1992 Heartbeat ( 1 episode ) as Traumatised Man / Buckley
- 1996 Silent Witness ( 1 episode ) as Professor Adrian Cowley
- 1997 Midsomer Murders ( 1 episode ) as Isaac Starling
- 2006 Torchwood ( 5 episodes ) as Brian Green
- 1992 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales ( 1 episode ) as Hamlet (voice)
- 2013 Endeavour ( 1 episode ) as Sir Alexander Lermontov
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- 1993 Lipstick on Your Collar ( 6 episodes ) as Major Church
- 2016 The Crown ( 1 episode ) as Michael Shea
- 2025 The Count of Monte Cristo ( 8 episodes ) as Morrel
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