Nicholas Farrell
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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.
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Known For
Heartbeat
Midsomer Murders
BBC Play of the Month
MacGyver
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Lovejoy
Casualty
New Tricks
Silent Witness
Death in Paradise
Call the Midwife
Father Brown
Foyle's War
Spooks
The Crown
Waking the Dead
The Gold
Rebus
Bodies
The Nevers
Fool Me Once
Everything I Know About Love
Thirteen
Harry
Siblings
The Village
Bedtime
Pearl Harbor
Sharpe: The Legend
The Count of Monte Cristo
Torchwood
Testament of Youth
Mortdecai
Munich – The Edge of War
Widow Clicquot
Legend
The Trials of Oz
The Riff Raff Element
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
The Ginger Tree
Bloody Sunday
Chariots of Fire
The Vision Thing
Sparkhouse
The Choir
To Play the King
Casualty 1900s
The Agatha Christie Hour
The Third Wave
Mansfield Park
The Fools on the Hill
A Breed of Heroes
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
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