Nicholas Farrell

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Nicholas Farrell ( b.1955 in Brentwood , Essex as Nicholas C. Frost ) is a British actor .

life and career

Nicholas Farrell studied at the University of Nottingham and attended the drama school Bristol Old Vic Theater School in Bristol , where Daniel Day-Lewis was one of his fellow students. He then gained his first experience as a theater actor and occasionally in television productions. Although he has been in front of the camera regularly since the 1980s, he also plays many theater roles and has long been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company . In the course of his theater career he has worked at the Royal Shakespeare Theater , Bristol Old Vic , the Royal Court Theater and the Queen's Theater , among others . Most often Farrell played it in works by William Shakespeare .

Farrell became internationally known in 1981 as one of the leading actors in the Oscar-winning sports film The Hour of the Winner . He played the historical role of the athlete and journalist Aubrey Montague (1900-1948) in this film . In the following decades Farrell played numerous leading and supporting roles, where he was particularly often cast as an authority figure or character of the British upper class. In the 1990s he starred with Othello , Hamlet and Was Ihr wollt in three top-class Shakespeare films. In 2006 he appeared as the parish priest and father of Rupert Grint's character in the comedy Driving Lessons . In 2011, he appeared in Die Eiserne Lady as Airey Neave , the murdered confidante of Margaret Thatcher , played by Meryl Streep .

On English television he took on a number of roles in multi-part film adaptations of literary works, for example in 1983 as Edmund Bertram in an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park and in 2009 as the Jewish Holocaust victim Fritz Pfeffer in a film adaptation of Anne Frank's diary . He made a recurring role on the Torchwood series and guest roles in television crime novels such as Inspector Barnaby and Lewis - The Oxford Crime .

Nicholas Farrell has been married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet since 2005 and they have two children.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The British Theater Guide: Nicholas Farrell, actor . In: archive.is . February 18, 2013 ( archive.is [accessed June 20, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Farrell, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frost, Nicholas C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film and television actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Brentwood , Essex