Nicholas Farrell

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Frost, in 1955) is an English 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 , in which he played 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, To Play the King, Torchwood and Collision. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Farrell, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Aiken

Cosmos Within Us

Mackintosh

Legionnaire

Brigadier Maclellan

Bloody Sunday

Devlin

Den tredje vågen

Edward

Fiona's Story

Aubrey Montague

Chariots of Fire

Mr. Musgrove

Persuasion

Henry Thornton

Amazing Grace

Batt Prender

The Vision Thing

Martin Urban

Dead Lucky

Sir Alexander Cadogan

Munich – The Edge of War

Bastable

The Treasure Seekers

Lord Fenner

Sharpe's Regiment

Geoffrey

Arthur's Dyke

Lawyer

The Rocking Horse Winner

Mr. Carter-Wood

Summer in February

Jean-Charles Rey

Grace of Monaco

Dr Mouldy

Beautiful People

MP's Secretary

Plunkett & MacLeane

Horatio

Hamlet

Vilanova

Altamira

Robert

Driving Lessons

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

Montano

Othello

Ebenezer Scrooge

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

Mr. Jackson

Charlotte Gray

Dr Humphries

Legend

Georg Heptner

Berlin Tunnel 21

Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll

Tom Newman

In the Bleak Midwinter

Headmaster

Testament of Youth

By Common Consent

Fenner

Sharpe: The Legend

Old Man (voice)

Tear Me Apart

General von Thoma

Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings

Sir Hugh Belcher

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Samuel Harris

Jack the Ripper - Eine Frau jagt einen Mörder

Airey Neave

The Iron Lady

RAF Squadron Leader

Pearl Harbor

Prometheus (voice)

Prometheus Bound

Jean-Remy Moet

Widow Clicquot

Edward Leitch

Reversals

Mayor

Mindhorn

Minister

Red Mercury

Daubenay

Remainder

De La Haye

Another Mother's Son

Antonio

Twelfth Night

Anthony Quest

Lies We Tell

Derek

Playing Away

Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC

A Breed of Heroes

Francis

Late Bloomers

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding

Hurricane

Dr. Edgar Chrystler

White Chamber

G. Moran

The Coldest Game

Philip Hobbs

Dream Horse

Auctioneer

Mortdecai

Dr. Michael Schofield

The Trials of Oz

Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)

Robot Overlords

Duke of Glenmorie

Christmas in the Highlands

Alfred White

Bait

Sentry Robot / Air Drone (voice)

Robot Overlords

Yurka Galitzine (voice)

The Man Who Saw Too Much

David

The Fools on the Hill

Narrator

Napoleon's Waterloo

Professor Dale Farringdon

Sun, Rosé and Romance

Simon

A Silly Little Habit

Silver Fox

Nipplejesus

Hamlet

Hamlet

Hamlet

Hamlet

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

69

Gender

Male

Birthday

1955-01-01

Place of Birth

Essex, England, UK

Also Known As

Nick Farrell