Nicholas Farrell
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Nicholas Farrell is a British 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 as 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 and To Play the King. 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.
[edit] Selected film and television appearances
Film credits include:
- Amazing Grace (2006)
- Driving Lessons (2006) as Robert Marshall
- Bloody Sunday (2002) as Brigadier Maclellan
- Charlotte Gray (2001) as Mr. Jackson
- Pearl Harbor (2001) as RAF Squadron Leader
- Legionnaire (1998) as Mackintosh
- Hamlet (1996) as Horatio
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1996) as Antonio
- Othello (1995) as Montano
- In the Bleak Midwinter (US title A Midwinter's Tale) (1995) as Tom Newman (Laertes, Fortinbras, and messengers)
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) as Sir Hugh Belcher
- Chariots of Fire (1981) as Aubrey Montague
Television credits include:
- Casualty 1906 (2006) as Sydney Holland
- Agatha Christie's Poirot- The Mystery of the Blue Train (2005) as Major Knighton
- Agatha Christie's Poirot- The ABC Murders (1992) as Donald Fraser
- Jericho, To Murder and Create (2005) as Charles Hewitt
- Trial & RetributionVIII: Blue Eiderdown (2004) as Jonathan Southwood MP
- Foyle's War, The Funk Hole (2003) as Chief Inspector James Collier
- Absolute Power, Mr Fox (2003) as Simon Wellington
- Spooks, The Rose Bed Memoirs (2002) as Richard Maynard
- The Jury (2002) as Jeremy Crawford (Juror #5)
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll" (1999) as Howard Brookes
- Midsomer Murders, Strangler's Wood (1999) as John Merrill
- Drop the Dead Donkey, Dave and Diana (1996) as Martin Jones
- Sharpe's Regiment (1996) as Lord Fenner
- Bramwell (1995) as Major Stuart Hyde
- MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994) as Paul Moran
- To Play the King (1993) as David Mycroft
- Lipstick on Your Collar as Maj. Church
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales: Hamlet (1992) as Hamlet (voice)
- Casualty, Facing Up (1991) as Phil Byron
- Lovejoy, The Italian Venus (1991) as Douglas Holden
- The Jewel in the Crown (1984) as Teddy Bingham
- Mansfield Park(1983) as Edmund Bertram
- The Manhood of Edward Robinson (1981) as Edward Robinson
