Nicholas Farrell

Nicholas Farrell

Brentwood, Essex, England, UK
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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Charles Frost, in September 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.

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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor

2001

as RAF Squadron Leader

Legend
Legend

2015

as Dr Humphries

Mortdecai
Mortdecai

2015

as Auctioneer

Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire

1981

as Aubrey Montague

The Coldest Game
The Coldest Game

2019

as G. Moran

Legionnaire
Legionnaire

1998

as Mackintosh

The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady

2011

as Airey Neave

Hamlet
Hamlet

1996

as Horatio

Widow Clicquot
Widow Clicquot

2024

as Jean-Remy Moet

Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace

2006

as Henry Thornton

Persuasion
Persuasion

2007

as Mr. Musgrove

Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night

1996

as Antonio

Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth

2015

as Headmaster

Sharpe's Regiment
Sharpe's Regiment

1996

as Lord Simon Fenner

Hurricane
Hurricane

2018

as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding

Dream Horse
Dream Horse

2021

as Philip Hobbs

Robot Overlords
Robot Overlords

2015

as Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)

Munich - The Edge of War
Munich - The Edge of War

2021

as Sir Alexander Cadogan

In the Bleak Midwinter
In the Bleak Midwinter

1995

as Tom Newman