Nicholas Farrell
Biography
Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Frost; 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. Education Farrell was educated at Fryerns Grammar and Technical School (which merged with another school to become Fryerns Comprehensive School in 1968), in Basildon, Essex, followed by the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol. Life and career Farrell's 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). He played the role of Albert Dussell in the 2009 adaption of The Diary of Anne Frank, a BBC production. In 2011, he played Margaret Thatcher's close friend and advisor Airey Neave in The Iron Lady. Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot films, 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. In the 2011 Chichester Festival he played schoolmasters Dewley and Crocker-Harris in the double bill of South Downs and The Browning Version.[1] He is married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet.
Chariots of Fire
Aubrey Montague
Amazing Grace
Henry Thornton
Legionnaire
Mackintosh
The Third Wave
Devlin
Twelfth Night
Antonio
Jack the Ripper
Samuel Harris
A Midwinter's Tale
Tom Newman (Laertes, Fortinbras, and messengers)
Poirot - Classic Crimes Collection
Major Knighton
Christmas in the Highlands
Duke of Glenmorie
Playing Away
Derek
Past Life
Elliot Reed
A Toast to Love
Professor Dale Farringdon
Widow Clicquot
Jean-Remy Moet
Munich: The Edge of War
Sir Alexander Cadogan
Christmas in the Highlands
Duke of Glenmorie
The Coldest Game
G. Moran
Mission of Honor
Dowding
Lies We Tell
Anthony Quest
Another Mother's Son
De La Haye
Jack the Ripper
Samuel Harris
Finding Altamira
Vilanova
Legend
Dr Humphries
Mortdecai
Auctioneer
Testament of Youth
Headmaster
Grace of Monaco
Jean-Charles Rey
Summer in February
Mr. Carter Wood
Spying on Hitler's Army: The Secret Recordings
General von Thoma
The Iron Lady
Airey Neave
Late Bloomers
Francis
Going Postal
Mr. Pump (voice)
Persuasion
Mr Musgrove
Amazing Grace
Henry Thornton
Blackbeard
Tobias Knight
Driving Lessons
Robert Marshall
Sharpe's Regiment
Lord Fenner
Red Mercury
Minister
Poirot - Classic Crimes Collection
Major Knighton
The Third Wave
Devlin
Bait
Alfred White
Bloody Sunday
Brig. Maclellan
Sparkhouse
Paul Lawton
Jury (BFS Entertainment/ 2-Disc)
Jeremy Crawford
Charlotte Gray
Mr. Jackson
The Discovery of Heaven
Mr. Quist (uncredited)
Mord i ørkenen
Donald Fraser
Pearl Harbor
RAF Squadron Leader
"Agatha Christie: Poirot" The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Donald Fraser
Plunkett & Macleane
M.P.s Secretary
Sex, Chips and Rock 'n' Roll
Howard Brookes
Beautiful People
Dr. Mouldy
Legionnaire
Mackintosh
The Treasure Seekers
Bastable
Hamlet
Horatio
Twelfth Night
Antonio
Othello
Montano
A Midwinter's Tale
Tom Newman (Laertes, Fortinbras, and messengers)
MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday
Paul Moran
Poirot: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Donald Fraser
The Trials of Oz
Dr. Michael Schofield
Playing Away
Derek
Hold The Dream - Barbara Taylor Bradford
Sebastian Cross
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Sir Hugh Belcher
The Jewel In The Crown
Teddy Bingham (4 episodes, 1984)
Chariots of Fire
Aubrey Montague
Berlin Tunnel 21
Georg (as Nicolas Farrell)
