Nicholas Farrell
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)
- 1975: Play for Today (TV series, episode)
- 1981: The Victory's Hour (Chariots of Fire)
- 1983: Mansfield Park (television miniseries, six episodes)
- 1984: Greystoke : The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
- 1987: Playing Away
- 1993: Lipstick on Your Collar ( Lipstick on Your Collar , television miniseries, six episodes)
- 1994: MacGyver - Endstation Hell ( McGyver: Trail to Doomsday , TV movie)
- 1995: In the Bleak Midwinter
- 1995: Othello
- 1996: Hamlet
- 1996: What you want (Twelth Night)
- 1998: The Legionnaire (Legionnaire)
- 1999: Plunkett & Macleane - Against Death and the Devil (Plunkett & Macleane)
- 1999: Beautiful People
- 1999/2018: Inspector Barnaby ( Midsomer Murders , TV series, two episodes)
- 2001: Pearl Harbor
- 2001: The Discovery of Heaven
- 2001: The Love of Charlotte Gray (Charlotte Gray)
- 2002: Bloody Sunday
- 2003: The Third Wave - The Conspiracy (Den tredje vågen)
- 2005: The Mystery of the Blue Train ( The Mystery of the Blue Train , television film)
- 2006: Driving Lessons - Full throttle into life (Driving Lessons)
- 2006: Pirates of the Caribbean ( Blackbeard , television miniseries, three episodes)
- 2006: Amazing Grace
- 2007: Persuasion (TV movie)
- 2009: The Diary of Anne Frank (TV miniseries, four episodes)
- 2009: Torchwood (TV series, five episodes)
- 2010: Lewis - The Oxford Crime ( Lewis , TV series, an episode)
- 2010: Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
- 2011: Late Bloomers
- 2011: Die Eiserne Lady (The Iron Lady)
- 2013: Summer in February
- 2014: Grace of Monaco
- 2015: Father Brown (TV series, episode)
- 2015: Mortdecai - The part-time crook (Mortdecai)
- 2015: Legend
- 2016: Jack the Ripper - A Woman Chases a Murderer (TV Movie)
- 2017: Read We Tell
- 2018: Hurricane - Battle of Britain (Hurricane)
- 2019: The Coldest Game
Web links
- Nicholas Farrell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The British Theater Guide: Nicholas Farrell, actor . In: archive.is . February 18, 2013 ( archive.is [accessed June 20, 2018]).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Farrell, Nicholas |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frost, Nicholas C. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film and television actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brentwood , Essex |