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Nicholas Farrell

📍 Brentwood, Essex, England, UK

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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Filmography 129

Past Life
as Elliot Reed
2026
Creditors
as Adolf
2025
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Morrel
2025
A Toast to Love
as Professor Dale Farringdon
2024
Widow Clicquot
as Jean-Remy Moet
2024
Fool Me Once
as Neville Lockwood
2024
Bodies
as Chief Inspector Paxman
2023
The Gold
as Jim Clark
2023
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
as Ebenezer Scrooge
2022
Everything I Know About Love
as Graham
2022
Signora Volpe
as Michael Priest / Henry Fox
2022
Signora Volpe
as Michael Priest
2022
Munich - The Edge of War
as Sir Alexander Cadogan
2021
Dream Horse
as Philip Hobbs
2021
The Nevers
as Prince Albrecht
2021
Christmas in the Highlands
as Duke of Glenmorie
2019
The Man Who Saw Too Much
as Yurka Galitzine (voice)
2019
The Coldest Game
as G. Moran
2019
Cosmos Within Us
as Aiken
2019
Hurricane
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
2018
White Chamber
as Dr. Edgar Chrystler
2018
Lies We Tell
as Anthony Quest
2018
Will
as Sir Francis Walsingham
2017
Another Mother's Son
as De La Haye
2017
Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher
as Samuel Harris
2016
The Crown
as Michael Shea
2016
Mindhorn
as Mayor
2016
Tear Me Apart
as Old Man (voice)
2016
Finding Altamira
as Vilanova
2016
Thirteen
as Henry Stone
2016
Remainder
as Daubenay
2015
Nipplejesus
as Silver Fox
2015
Legend
as Dr Humphries
2015
Napoleon's Waterloo
as Narrator
2015
Robot Overlords
as Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
2015
Mortdecai
as Auctioneer
2015
Testament of Youth
as Headmaster
2015
Siblings
2014
Grace of Monaco
as Jean-Charles Rey
2014
37 Days
as Eyre Crowe
2014
Summer in February
as Mr. Carter-Wood
2013
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
as General von Thoma
2013
Endeavour
as Sir Alexander Lermontov
2013
The Village
as Crispin Rose
2013
Jo
2013
Father Brown
as Sir Raleigh Beresford
2013
Secret State
as General Munnery
2012
Call the Midwife
as Charles Newgarden
2012
The Iron Lady
as Airey Neave
2011
Death in Paradise
as Nicholas Dunham
2011
Late Bloomers
as Francis
2011
Going Postal
as Mr. Pump
2010
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Albert Dussel
2009
Fiona's Story
as Edward
2008
Casualty 1900s
as Sydney Holland
2008
Talk to Me
as Harry
2007
Persuasion
as Mr. Musgrove
2007
Lewis
as Charles Milner
2007
Torchwood
as Brian Green
2006
Amazing Grace
as Henry Thornton
2006
Driving Lessons
as Robert
2006
Suburban Shootout
as Raymond
2006
Jericho
as Charles Hewitt
2005
Red Mercury
as Minister
2005
The Minoans
as Readings (voice)
2004
Prometheus Bound
as Prometheus (voice)
2004
New Tricks
as James Winslow
2004
The Third Wave
as Devlin
2003
Foyle's War
as James Collier
2002
Sparkhouse
as Paul Lawton
2002
Spooks
as Richard Maynard
2002
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
as Sam Oborne
2002
Bait
as Alfred White
2002
The Jury
as Jeremy Crawford
2002
Bloody Sunday
as Brigadier Maclellan
2002
Charlotte Gray
as Mr. Jackson
2001
Arthur's Dyke
as Geoffrey
2001
Bedtime
as Ray
2001
Waking the Dead
as Douglas Malham
2001
Pearl Harbor
as RAF Squadron Leader
2001
Rebus
as Davis Haigh
2000
Beautiful People
as Dr Mouldy
1999
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
as Howard
1999
Plunkett & Macleane
as MP's Secretary
1999
Legionnaire
as Mackintosh
1998
Sharpe: The Legend
as Fenner
1997
Midsomer Murders
as Isaac Starling
1997
The Treasure Seekers
as Bastable
1996
Hamlet
as Horatio
1996
Twelfth Night
as Antonio
1996
Sharpe's Regiment
as Lord Simon Fenner
1996
Silent Witness
as Professor Adrian Cowley
1996
Othello
as Montano
1995
In the Bleak Midwinter
as Tom Newman
1995
Bramwell
as Major Stuart Hyde
1995
The Choir
as Leo Beckford
1995
A Breed of Heroes
as Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC
1994
The Riff Raff Element
as Boyd Tundish
1994
To Play the King
as David Mycroft
1993
The Vision Thing
as Batt Prender
1993
Lipstick on Your Collar
as Major Church
1993
Hamlet
as Hamlet
1992
A Touch of Frost
as Simon Slater
1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Hamlet (voice)
1992
Heartbeat
as Traumatised Man / Buckley
1992
The Trials of Oz
as Dr. Michael Schofield
1991
Drop the Dead Donkey
1990
The Ginger Tree
as Father Anthony
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Donald Fraser
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Knighton
1989
Dead Lucky
as Martin Urban
1988
Hold the Dream
as Sebastian Cross
1987
Playing Away
as Derek
1987
The Fools on the Hill
as David
1986
Casualty
as Phil Byron
1986
Lovejoy
as Douglas Holden
1986
Portrait of Isa Mulvenny
as Bill Thompson
1985
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
as Sir Hugh Belcher
1984
The Jewel in the Crown
as Teddy Bingham
1984
Mansfield Park
as Edmund Bertram
1983
The Rocking Horse Winner
as Lawyer
1982
The Agatha Christie Hour
as Edward Robinson
1982
A Silly Little Habit
as Simon
1982
Chariots of Fire
as Aubrey Montague
1981
Berlin Tunnel 21
as Georg Heptner
1981
Matador
as Jim Donaldson, Engelsk flyver
1978
By Common Consent
1975
Playhouse
as Simon
1974
BBC Play of the Month
as Larion Surzhansky
1965