Richard Cunningham (actor)

Richard Cunningham is an English actor known for playing Ryall in Stephen Poliakoff's Golden Globe winning Dancing on the Edge,[1] for the BBC with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthew Goode.

Early life

Richard was born in Hove, in Sussex, and grew up in the small village of Wisborough Green before going on to train as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Television

Other television appearances include playing Barry Flowers in the Law and Order: UK episode Help, the Sherlock episode "A Scandal in Belgravia"[2] and in series 1 of Law and Order UK, the first actor to play two different roles in the series.[3] He appeared as Norman Wright in Hollyoaks, Gates with Joanna Page, Colin Chalmers in EastEnders and he will shortly be seen in London Spy with Ben Wishaw on BBC2.

Film

He also appears in the Warner Brothers film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.,[4] the 2014 Hammer Films movie The Quiet Ones, with Jared Harris,The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared, The Theory of Everything (2014 film), the upcoming British thriller Breakdown with Craig Fairbrass, James Cosmo and Emmett J. Scanlan and the award winning Andrew Haigh film 45 Years with Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay who won Silvers Bears at the Berlin International Film Festival and the film won The Michael Powell Award For Best British Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. He also appeared in Burnt, with Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl, and Omar Sy, which was released in October 2015.

Theatre

Theatre roles include playing the Commander in Fuente Ovejuna at the Southwark Playhouse[5] and Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink at the Aldwych Theatre.

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