Anthony Howell (actor)
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| Anthony Howell | |
|---|---|
| Born | Anthony Howell 1971 The Lake District, England |
| Occupation | Actor, Cinematographer |
| Years active | 1999-present |
Anthony "Tony" Howell (born 1971 in The Lake District) is an English actor and cinematographer, best known for his starring role as Sgt. Paul Milner in the British TV series Foyle's War.
Howell was born in The Lake District, England in 1971, to a Welsh father and English mother.
Howell trained to be an actor at the Drama Centre, and his acting debut came when he went on a world tour with Robert Lepage's Geometry of Miracles. He subsequently starred in Wives and Daughters (1999) before taking a year out to appear 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.
In 2005, Howell starred in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None in London's West End. He played the lead in the first stage adaptation of John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman which toured the UK in 2006. In 2008 Anthony Howell will appear in the Primavera production of Jingo: A Farce of War, by Charles Wood.
