Anthony Howell

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Anthony Howell (b. 1971 in the Lake District) is an English television actor.

He trained to be an actor at the Drama Centre. His acting debut came when he went on a world tour with Robert Lepage's Geometry of Miracles. He then starred in Wives and Daughters (1999) . He took a year out and appeared in the 1999-2000 Royal Shakespeare Company season in Stratford-Upon-Avon, where he took major roles in the three main plays of that season: Orlando in As You Like It, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Antipholous of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors.

He is currently best known, however, for his part in Foyle's War - the BAFTA-award winning detective series set in Hastings during World War II. Howell stars opposite Michael Kitchen, playing Foyle's right-hand man—Det. Sgt. Paul Milner, who lost a leg during a battle in Trondheim, Norway.

Starred in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None in London's West End in 2005.

More recently played the lead in the first stage adaptation of John Fowels' The French Lieutenants Woman which toured the UK in 2006.