Richard Armitage (actor)

Richard Armitage

Armitage at WonderCon 2014
Born Richard Crispin Armitage
(1971-08-22) 22 August 1971
Huncote, Leicestershire, England
Citizenship British
Education London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation Actor
Years active 1988–present

Richard Crispin Armitage (born 22 August 1971) is an English film, television, theatre and voice actor. He became an overnight sensation in his native England with his first leading role as John Thornton in the British television programme North & South (2004).[1] But it was his role as dwarf prince and leader Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson's film trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit[2] that first brought him international recognition. Other notable roles include John Proctor in Yaël Farber’s stage production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Francis Dolarhyde in the American TV series Hannibal,[3] Lucas North in the British TV drama Spooks,[4] John Porter in the British TV drama Strike Back,[5] and Guy of Gisborne in the British TV drama Robin Hood.[4]

After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Armitage initially sought theatre work and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). But he turned to film and television roles when he noticed that leading stage roles went to actors with name recognition who could bring in patrons to fill venues. After twelve years away and having earned that name recognition, Armitage returned to the stage in 2014 taking his first leading role in a major production. He played John Proctor in the highly successful and critically acclaimed production of The Crucible at The Old Vic,[6][7] and earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor.[8]

One of Armitage's trademarks is his baritone voice,[9] which he has employed as a voice actor since 2006. While working on the TV series Robin Hood, he was asked to record audiobooks for the first season of that series. Since then, Armitage has recorded many notable audiobooks and has worked as a narrator on many TV and radio shows and adverts. His flair for speaking in a multitude of dialects, accents and voices has garnered Armitage numerous accolades for his narration skills, including the Best Audiobook of the Year Award of 2014 from Audible.com for his recording of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel.[10]

Early life and education

Armitage was born in Leicester, England, the younger son of Margaret, a secretary, and John Armitage, an engineer. Richard has an older brother named Chris.[11] He attended Huncote Community Primary School in Huncote, Blaby District, Leicestershire and began middle school at the local comprehensive school, Brockington College in Enderby. At Brockington, Armitage pursued his interest in music - playing the cello in school and local orchestras, and learning how to play the flute. But by fourteen, having secured a grant from the Leicestershire Authority, he successfully persuaded his mother to allow him to transfer to Pattison College in Coventry, an independent boarding school specializing in the Performing Arts so that he could focus on drama and dance.[12][13][14] Armitage has expressed gratitude for the lessons and opportunities Pattison College provided, saying "It...instilled me with a discipline that has stood me in good stead - never to be late, to know your lines and to be professional."[15] By the time he graduated, he gained not only A Levels in music and English,[16] but also acting experience in local amateur and professional productions such as Showboat, Half a Sixpence, Orpheus and the Underworld (as Bacchus) and The Hobbit (as an elf) at the New Alexandra Theatre (aka "The Alex"), Birmingham.[15]

Career

1988–2003: Early work

After completing the programme at Pattison College in 1988, Armitage joined the Nachtcircus in Budapest for six months to obtain his Equity Card, a requirement at the time for entertainment professionals to work in the UK.[17][18] Returning to England, he pursued a career in musical theatre – working as an assistant choreographer to Kenn Oldfield and performing in various productions, including the ensembles of 42nd Street, My One and Only, Nine, Annie Get Your Gun and as Admetus and Macavity in Cats.[19] Armitage was also pursuing acting in dramatic theatre productions, including The Real Thing, Six Degrees of Separation and Death of a Salesman.

By 1992, he began to doubt if musical theatre was the right career path, so he enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in 1993 to further study acting.[20][21] "I needed to do something a bit more truthful than musical theatre. For me it was a bit too theatrical and all about standing on stage and showing off. I was looking for something else, so that’s why I went back to drama school."[22]

After completing LAMDA's three-year programme, he returned to the stage as a supporting player with the Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of Macbeth and The Duchess of Malfi, as well as Hamlet and Four Alice Bakers with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre while taking a series of small roles in television and films.[23] In 2002 he starred in the Charm Offensive's production of Use Me As Your Cardigan.[24]

That same year Armitage appeared in his first major television role, as John Standring in the BBC drama Sparkhouse (2002).[25] "It was the first time I went to an audition in character. It was a minor role but it was something I really got my teeth into... I couldn't go back. I knew I had to approach everything the same way."[26] After this he took supporting roles in the TV productions of Between the Sheets,[27] Cold Feet (series 5),[28] and Ultimate Force (series 2).[16][27]

2004–10: Television success

In Spring 2004, Armitage landed his first leading role as textile mill owner John Thornton in the BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's North & South.[29] The director and producers took a chance casting a little-known actor for their leading man (he was the first actor to audition for the role and the last person cast),[30] but their instincts proved correct. North & South was an unexpected success and Armitage became an overnight sensation in the UK.[31] The BBC message boards crashed shortly after the telecast as a result of chatter about him[20] and he was hailed as the new "Mr. Darcy"[32][33] (referring to Colin Firth's "Mr Darcy" whom many regard as the definitive romantic leading man). Armitage never perceived John Thornton as the ideal romantic leading man role and was surprised by the overwhelming response.[34] Instead, he said that he felt personally drawn to the role, as his father's family had been weavers. He cited Thornton's dualism as drawing him to the character. "The dichotomy between the powerful, almost monstrous, entrepreneur and this kind of vulnerable boy is exciting for me to look at."[30]

Richard Armitage at the 2010 BAFTA TV Awards

In 2005, he played Peter MacDuff in Macbeth in the BBC's ShakespeaRe-Told series[35] and appeared as a recovering gambling addict in one episode of Inspector Lynley Mysteries.[36] He starred in The Impressionists, playing the young Claude Monet,[37] and as Dr Alec Track in ITV's The Golden Hour, a medical series based on the London Air Ambulance.[38] His first substantial role in movies was in the independent film Frozen.[39]

In 2006, Armitage was cast as Guy of Gisborne in the BBC series Robin Hood, which was filmed entirely in Hungary.[20] "In order to sustain the character of Guy, you have to find the conflict within him. He's constantly pulled between good and evil, between who he wants to be and who he actually is. He could have been a good man, but he is forever dragged down by his fatal flaw – that he wants glory at all costs."[40] Approaching the third series, he said, "I do love playing him, but with a character like Gisborne, if you give him what he needs, then in a way, it's over. That character is only interesting when he isn't getting what he wants, whether it's power, money or the girl."[41] The third and final series of Robin Hood started on 28 March 2009.

Armitage appeared in a two-part 2006/07 Christmas/New Years special of The Vicar of Dibley, as Harry Kennedy, the vicar's new love interest (and eventual husband). He reprised the role in 2007 for Red Nose Day. On 8 April 2007, he played biker Ricky Deeming in the detective drama George Gently with Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby. On 9 May 2007, he appeared in the BBC Four production of Miss Marie Lloyd – Queen of The Music Hall playing Marie Lloyd's first husband, Percy Courtenay. He also appeared in the Granada TV production of Agatha Christie's novel Ordeal by Innocence as the character Philip Durrant.

Armitage joined the cast of Spooks as the character Lucas North for series 7, which began on 27 October 2008 in the UK.[4] Armitage notes that the character, who spent eight years in a Russian prison, has a personable exterior, but is psychologically damaged. "I love films with a combination of action and good characters. That's why Lucas is interesting as I get to play someone with a complex psychology who goes out there and tries to save the world."[42] During the filming of series 7 Armitage allowed himself to be subjected to waterboarding to film a flashback sequence.[43] In July 2010, Armitage completed filming of series 9, his final series. In this last series, his character's real name was revealed as John Bateman, who had murdered the real Lucas North shortly before North began employment with MI5. Bateman had stolen North's identity and taken his place.[44]

On 20 May 2009, Armitage appeared in the BBC1 drama Moving On as John Mulligan.

In May 2010, Armitage starred as former S.A.S. trooper John Porter in Strike Back (also known as Chris Ryan's Strike Back) for Sky1.[5] Filmed in South Africa, Armitage found the main challenge of the role was to show how the character resolved being a trained killer with having a family and home life.[45] "In the end it was the character I was attracted to, the story of a man who makes a decision under pressure and that decision has a knock-on effect on his whole life," he said. "He goes in search of atonement still believing he did the right thing even though it cost the lives of three of his friends... There's anger and there's injustice. It's like, 'I did the right thing, with the wrong outcome.'"[46] By the time Sky1 and Cinemax decided to commission a second series of Strike Back called Strike Back: Project Dawn, Armitage had already committed to The Hobbit and was unable to continue in the series. However, he appeared as a guest star in the first episode to resolve John Porter’s fate.[47][48]

Ironically, it was his role as John Porter that led to his casting in Captain America: The First Avenger. US casting agents noticed posters of him as John Porter all over London. Although unknown to them, they offered him the role of Nazi spy Heinz Kruger because he looked the part. Armitage accepted and shot his scenes in the autumn of 2010, after filming wrapped on Spooks, series 9. (The film was released in July 2011).[49][50]

2010–present: Film success and beyond

On 21 October 2010, Peter Jackson announced Armitage was cast as Thorin Oakenshield in the three-film production of The Hobbit.[2] Principal photography in New Zealand ran from March 2011 to July 2012 (broken into three filming blocks with breaks in-between) and pick-ups were shot in the summer of 2013 .[51] All three films were released in December, starting with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 2012, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in 2013 and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in 2014. Armitage thought it was a wonderful opportunity, as he grew up reading the books. Coincidentally, one of his first stage roles was playing an elf in a production of The Hobbit at the "Alex" Theatre in Birmingham.[52] He describes the character of Thorin as being complex and flawed, "somebody that had doubts and that had fears, and there was a gentle side to him and a very perhaps lonely side to him."[53] He notes the scene with Balin in Bag End shows the character's inner sensitivity and fear of failure, "failing where his father and his grandfather had failed as well."[53]

Immediately after filming wrapped on The Hobbit, Armitage flew to Detroit, Michigan to film Into the Storm from July to September 2012.[54][55] He starred as Gary Fuller, a high school Vice Principal with two teenage sons.[56] The film from New Line was released in August 2014.[57]

In March 2014, Armitage began the eight-week shoot of an adaptation of Bernard Hare's memoir Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew in Leeds, UK.[58][59][60] He played "Chop" (the author's nickname), an ex-social worker, drunk and drug addict in Britain's lowerclass who befriends the hardened young delinquent Urban.[58][61] Armitage explained his attraction to this role: “it ticks a few boxes for me: it’s based on a really interesting piece of literature, but also based on living people, who have been working with us on set.”[62] Urban and the Shed Crew premiered at the Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) on 7 November 2015.[63]

Armitage next appeared as John Proctor in The Old Vic's production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Directed by Yaël Farber and performed in the round, the play ran from 21 June to 13 September 2014.[64] The production drew an unprecedented amount of 5-star reviews and was a commercial success. For his performance, Armitage was awarded Best Leading Actor in a New Production of a Play by Broadway World:UK Awards 2014[65] and a Best Actor nomination for an Olivier Award.[8] Due to overwhelming worldwide demand to see the production, Digital Theatre captured the live performance to bring The Crucible to cinemas and for digital download. It was screened at cinemas on 4 and 7 December 2014 in the UK and Ireland, with further screenings in other selected territories in February and March 2015.[6][7] (Copyright issues prevented the film from being screened at North American cinemas.[66]) Digital Theatre made the digital download available worldwide on 17 March 2015.[67]

In a September 2014 interview, Armitage revealed he would film his cameo role of King Oleron in Alice Through the Looking Glass in London after The Crucible closed.[68][69] The film was released in May 2016.[70]

Armitage spent four weeks in October 2014 filming Sleepwalker in the greater Los Angeles area. In this psychological thriller, Armitage plays Dr. Scott White, a senior MD at a sleep research center. No release date has been set.[71][72]

DeLaurentiis Company tweeted on 13 January 2015 that Armitage was cast as Francis Dolarhyde (aka The Tooth Fairy) in their acclaimed TV production of Hannibal,[73] written and co-produced by Bryan Fuller. Dolarhyde is a serial killer, a character type which Armitage had expressed interest in portraying.[74] He filmed the series in Toronto, Canada from January[75] to April,[76] and the series aired from 4 June to 29 August 2015.[77] Armitage appeared in the last six episodes of season 3,[78][79] earning high praise, wide acclaim[80][81][82] and several award nominations, including two wins.[83][84][85]

Immediately after wrapping on Hannibal in late April 2015, Armitage joined his fellow Pilgrimage castmates[86] who had already begun filming in Connemara, Ireland two weeks prior.[87] He plays Sir Raymond De Merville, a 13th-century French Norman who is intent on foiling a group of monks escorting a sacred relic from Ireland to Rome.[88][89][90] The cast and crew later moved to the Ardennes region of Belgium to complete filming,[91] with Armitage wrapping one week earlier than the official film wrap at the end of May.[92][93]

News broke on 13 May 2015 that Armitage would star in Clearance, the first English language film by Finnish director Aku Louhimies and set to film in South Africa in November 2015.[94] It is an action drama about a hardened mine expert named Ray (Armitage) and his pregnant partner (Naomi Harris) who are kidnapped in South Sudan. Sources differ on whether Ray is forced to cross a vast minefield to gain his freedom[95] or if Ray and his partner make their escape across a vast minefield.[94]

In a June 2015 interview,[96] Armitage mentioned his next projects included an Edith Wharton film and a true Irish tragic drama. Per agent David Higham, Bridget Cleary is likely the Irish drama.[97]

On 12 July 2015, Armitage revealed he was about to start filming Brain on Fire in Vancouver, Canada.[98] Subsequent news outlets provided more details about his role as "Big Man" Tom Cahalan, father of the protagonist in the true-life story of young journalist Susannah Cahalan's sudden descent into inexplicable madness and the eleventh-hour diagnosis by one doctor.[99] Filming began 13 July 2015. Brain on Fire premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on 14 September 2016.[100]

Armitage landed the lead role of Daniel Miller in Berlin Station, an original spy series for Epix. His character, a cerebral analyst from Langley, is a newly anointed undercover CIA officer tasked with finding a mole in Berlin. Filmed in Berlin from November 2015 to April 2016, with some additional filming in the Canary Islands, the series premiered on Epix in the fall of 2016.[101][102]

On 13 July 2016, Roundabout Theatre Company announced Armitage was cast as Kenneth in the American premiere of Love, Love, Love by playwright Mike Bartlett. Love, Love, Love also marks Armitage's first leading role in a theatrical play on an American stage. The off-Broadway play runs from 22 September to 18 December 2016 at the intimate Laura Pels Theater in New York City.[103]

Narration

Armitage was first introduced to voice work while working on the TV drama Robin Hood in 2006. The BBC was publishing novels of the first four episodes of series one and asked Armitage to record the audiobook versions. In recent years, Armitage has also performed a great deal of voice work, such as reading poetry for various radio programmes and starring as Robert Lovelace in BBC Radio 4's production of Clarissa: A History of a Young Lady in April 2010. He has recorded eleven audio books: six based on BBC's Robin Hood, Bernard Cornwell's The Lords of the North, three Georgette Heyer novels for Naxos AudioBooks (Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle, Venetia, and The Convenient Marriage) and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel. He has narrated television documentaries such as Homes from Hell, Empire's Children, Too Poor for Posh School?, The Great Sperm Race, Forest Elephants: Rumble in the Jungle, Surgery School, and Elsa: The Lioness That Changed the World. In 2011, he provided the narration for a series about the Royal Navy flagship HMS Ark Royal,[104] 125 Years of Wimbledon: You Cannot Be Serious, and Fraud Squad. He has also provided the voice-over for many TV and radio advertisements.

Richard III connection

Armitage was hoping to star in a drama based on Richard III. Armitage was born on the anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth Field, where Richard III was killed and has said "I believe it is a great story, a socio-political thriller, a love story and a dynastic tragedy".[105] He thinks the story has the potential to be told as a twenty-episode miniseries. A script has been in development since 2010 and "a lot of people... are interested [in producing it], but there is no one that will step on the gas."[106] Recently Armitage stated that he is still interested in the project, though he has reservations that he might be too tall and too old to play Richard III.

Acting style

Armitage has described himself as a method actor. "Yeah, I suppose I am. In a way it's slightly lazy because it means you don't have to pretend – you just have to believe. As much as it's possible to be like that I suppose I kind of do step in and out, I'm not one of these people that can't talk to other people because I'm in my character, but I kind of do stay with the character, yeah. He's always there. It's like marinating something – you're sitting in a marinade the whole time."[107] He has also spoken of dreaming in character while playing John Porter and Thorin Oakenshield.[108][109] However, recently he rejected the label of "method actor". "I think I'm a concentrating actor. So in order to do my work in the course of a day, particularly with a character like this I have to concentrate. So it's about staying in the scene, staying with my head in the scene and attempting to keep the character with me. It doesn't mean I can't have a conversation or go and make a cup of coffee. But I actually stay with the character for 18 months."[110]

He frequently speaks of developing and being drawn to dualism in his characters.[106] "If I'm offered the role of the hero, I immediately look for the antihero within!... I see everything in terms of an outer skin and an inner skin."[111] He creates "character diaries" with entire biographies for the characters he plays. "It was important to me to put in a background for my character that would be useful for the whole journey. A lot of that is secret and no one gets to read that. It's what is useful to me. If you are playing something long-running and a role that has a future [beyond the initial series], it's almost like you have to plant a garden which you will need to come back to at some point. If you don't put in early, it can jar with you."[22]

Credits

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1999 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Naboo fighter pilot [112]
1999 Staged Daryl Newman Short film [113]
1999 This Year's Love Smug Man at Party [112]
2005 Frozen Steven [39]
2011 Captain America: The First Avenger Heinz Kruger [50]
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Thorin Oakenshield [2]
2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Thorin Oakenshield [2]
2014 Into the Storm Gary Fuller [54]
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Thorin Oakenshield Win—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in a film [2]
2014 The Crucible John Proctor Film capturing live stage performance of the production at The Old Vic [114]
2015 Urban and the Shed Crew Chop [61]
2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass King Oleron [70]
2016 Sleepwalker Dr. Scott White [72]
2016 Pilgrimage Sir Raymond De Merville [88]
2016 Brain on Fire Tom Cahalan [99]
2016 Clearance Ray [95]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Original Air Date Ref.
1992 Boon Man in pub Series 7, Episode 6: "Message in a Bottle"; uncredited [112]
1999 Cleopatra Epiphanes Television miniseries 23–24 May 1999 [112]
2001 Macbeth Angus Television film 1 Jan 2001 [112]
2001 Doctors Dr. Tom Steele Series 4, Episodes 58 & 59: "Good Companions" & "Cat's Out of the Bag" 21–22 Nov 2001 [115]
2001 Casualty Craig Parker Series 16, Episode 17: "Playing with Fire" 21 Dec 2001 [112]
2002 Spooks Armed police officer Series 1, Episode 4: "Traitor's Gate" 4 Jun 2002 [116]
2002 Sparkhouse John Standring BBC drama, television film 1–8 Sep 2002 [25]
2003 Cold Feet Lee Series 5, Episodes 1–6 23 Feb–16 Mar 2003 [28]
2003 Ultimate Force Capt. Ian Macalwain Series 2, Episodes 2–6 25 Jun–23 Jul 2003 [16]
2003 Between the Sheets Paul Andrews ITV miniseries 17 Nov–22 Dec 2003 [27]
2004 North & South John Thornton BBC miniseries 14 Nov–5 Dec 2004 [29]
2005 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Philip Turner Series 4, Episode 1: "In Divine Proportion" 17 Mar 2005 [36]
2005 Malice Aforethought William Chatford ITV drama, television film 10–11 Apr 2005 [112]
2005 The Golden Hour Dr. Alec Track Series 1 (4 episodes) 14 Sep–5 Oct 2005 [38]
2005 ShakespeaRe-Told Peter Macduff Episode 2: "Macbeth" 14 Nov 2005 [35]
2006 The Impressionists Young Claude Monet BBC docudrama, miniseries 30 Apr–14 May 2006 [37][117]
[118][119]
2006 CBeebies: Bedtime Hour Himself/Storyteller BBC childrens series, 5 episodes 9–13 Oct 2006 [120][121][122]
[123][124]
2006–2009 Robin Hood Guy of Gisborne Series 1, 2 & 3 (37 episodes) S1: 7 Oct–30 Dec 2006
S2: 6 Oct–29 Dec 2007
S3: 28 Mar–27 Jun 2009		 [125]
2006–2007 The Vicar of Dibley Harry Kennedy Christmas Special: "The Handsome Stranger"
Christmas Special: "The Vicar in White"
Comic Relief Special: "Wife Swap"		 25 Dec 2006
1 Jan 2007
16 Mar 2007		 [126]
2007 Inspector George Gently Ricky Deeming Pilot episode: "Gently Go Man" 7 Apr 2007 [127]
2007 Miss Marie Lloyd – Queen of The Music Hall Percy Courtenay BBC drama, television film 9 May 2007 [128]
2007 Agatha Christie's Marple Philip Durrant Series 3, Episode 2: "Ordeal by Innocence" 30 Sep 2008 [129]
2008–10 Spooks Lucas North Series 7, 8 & 9 (25 episodes) S7: 27 Oct 2008–6 Dec 2008
S8: 4 Nov–23 Dec 2009
S9: 20 Sep–8 Nov 2010		 [116]
2010 Chris Ryan's Strike Back John Porter Series 1 (6 episodes) 5–19 May 2010 [5]
2009 Moving On John Mulligan Series 1, Episode 3: "Drowning not Waving" 20 May 2009 [130]
2011 Strike Back: Project Dawn John Porter Series 2, Episode 1 12 Aug 2011 (US)
21 Aug 2011 (UK)		 [48]
2015 Hannibal Francis Dolarhyde Season 3, Episodes 8–13
Win—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on a television series and Fangoria Chainsaw Awards for Best TV Supporting Actor		 4 Jun–29 Aug 2015 [3][83][84]
2016 Berlin Station Daniel Miller Season 1 (10 episodes) [102]

Theatre (selection)

Year Title Role Playwright Venue Notes Ref.
1995 The Long and the Short and the Tall Macliesh Willis Hall Actors' Centre's Tristram Bates Theatre
1995 The Real Thing Henry Tom Stoppard Old School Manchester
1995 Six Degrees of Separation Flan John Guare Old School Manchester
1995 Death of a Salesman Biff Arthur Miller Old School Manchester
1998 Hamlet Bernardo William Shakespeare Birmingham Repertory Theatre Opened on 22 September 1998 for three-week run. [131]
1999 The Four Alice Bakers Young Richie Baker Fay Weldon Birmingham Repertory Theatre Ran from 23 February to 13 March 1999. [132]
1999–2000 Macbeth Angus William Shakespeare Swan Theatre (Stratford); Theatre Royal, Brighton; Theatre Royal, Bath; The Globe Tokyo; Young Vic; Long Wharf Theatre Royal Shakespeare Company
Opened 2 November 1999 in Stratford; Brighton (24-29 Jan 2000); Bath (1-5 Feb 2000); Toyko (24 March to 8 April 2000); London (10 April to 3 June 2000); New Haven, USA (15–25 June 2000).		 [133]
[134]
2000–2001 The Duchess of Malfi Delio John Webster Barbican Theatre; various UK theatres; Royal Shakespeare Theatre Royal Shakespeare Company
Opened 10 November 2000 in London; UK tour; Stratford (6 February to 3 March 2001).		 [135]
2002 Use Me As Your Cardigan Jez Samantha Ellis Jacksons Lane Ran from 19 February to 9 March 2002. [24]
2010 The Twenty Four Hour Plays Celebrity Gala: The Third Wish Dennis/Himself Stephen Beresford The Old Vic Fundraising event. The first of six short plays performed on 21 November 2010. [136]
2014 Pinter/PROUST: Remembrance of Things Past Swann, Journalist, Brothel Patron Harold Pinter and Marcel Proust 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center Staged reading. Performed on 16 January 2014 as part of the centenary celebrations commemorating the publication of Swann's Way. [137]
2014 The Crucible John Proctor Arthur Miller The Old Vic Ran from 21 June to 13 September 2014.
Win—Broadway World:UK Awards for Best Leading Actor in a New Production of a Play		 [64][65]
2016 Love, Love, Love Kenneth Mike Bartlett Laura Pels Theater Runs from 22 September to 18 December 2016. [103]

Discography

Year Title Role Author Notes Ref.
2006 Robin Hood: Will You Tolerate This? Narrator Kristy Neale First published 13 October 2006 by BBC Audiobooks
2006 Robin Hood: Sheriff Got Your Tongue? Narrator Kay Woodward First published 6 November 2006 by BBC Audiobooks
2006 Robin Hood: Who Shot The Sheriff? Narrator Jacqueline Rayner First published 6 November 2006 by BBC Audiobooks
2006 Robin Hood: Parent Hood Narrator Mandy Archer First published 6 November 2006 by BBC Audiobooks
2007 The Lords of the North Narrator Bernard Cornwell First published July 2007 by Chivers Audiobooks
2009 Robin Hood: The Witch Finders Narrator Rebecca Levene First published April 2009 by Big Finish Productions
2009 Robin Hood: The Siege Narrator Simon Guerrier First published 30 June 2009 by Big Finish Productions
2009 Sylvester Narrator Georgette Heyer First published 1 July 2009 by Naxos Audiobooks
2010 Venetia Narrator Georgette Heyer First published 1 April 2010 by Naxos Audiobooks
2010 The Convenient Marriage Narrator Georgette Heyer First published 2 August 2010 by Naxos Audiobooks
2014 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel Narrator A. J. Hartley and David Hewson First released 20 May 2014 by Audible.com
Win—Audible Award for Best Audiobook of the Year
2015 Classic Love Poems Narrator William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and more First released 9 February 2015 by Audible.com
2015 The Chimes Narrator Charles Dickens First released 11 December 2015 by Audible.com
2016 David Copperfield Narrator Charles Dickens First released 9 February 2016 by Audible.com

Radio

Voice-over

Awards and nominations

Year Work Award Category Result Ref.
2009 Spooks Golden Nymph Awards Outstanding Actor – Drama Series Nominated [141]
2009 Spooks TV Quick Awards Best Actor Nominated [142]
2011 Venetia Audie Awards Best Audiobook Adaptation Nominated [143]
2013 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey SFX Awards Best Actor Nominated [144]
2014 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Empire Awards Best Supporting Actor Nominated [145]
2014 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel Audible Best of 2014 Audiobook of the Year Won [10]
2014 The Crucible Broadway World: UK Awards Best Leading Actor in a New Production of a Play Won [65]
2015 The Crucible What's On Stage Awards Best Actor in a Play Nominated [146]
2015 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies SFX Awards Best Actor Nominated [147]
2015 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Empire Awards Best Actor Nominated [148]
2015 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel Audie Awards Best Solo Narration – Male Nominated [149]
2015 The Crucible Olivier Awards Best Actor Nominated [8]
2015 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Saturn Awards Best Supporting Actor in a film Won [150]
2016 Hannibal Critics' Choice Awards Best Guest Actor/Actress in a Drama Series Nominated [85]
2016 Hannibal Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Best TV Supporting Actor Won [84]
2016 Classic Love Poems Audie Awards Best Male Narrator Nominated [151]
2016 Hannibal Saturn Awards Best Supporting Actor on a television series Won [83]

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