Nicholas Farrell
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Farrell, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Midsomer Murders

The Crown

Death in Paradise

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Silent Witness

Casualty

Father Brown
All Movies (71)
- Past Life2026 · as Elliot Reed
- Creditors2025 · as Adolf
- A Toast to Love2024 · as Professor Dale Farringdon
- Widow Clicquot2024 · as Jean-Remy Moet
- A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story2022 · as Ebenezer Scrooge
- Munich - The Edge of War2021 · as Sir Alexander Cadogan
- Dream Horse2021 · as Philip Hobbs
- Christmas in the Highlands2019 · as Duke of Glenmorie
- The Man Who Saw Too Much2019 · as Yurka Galitzine (voice)
- The Coldest Game2019 · as G. Moran
- Cosmos Within Us2019 · as Aiken
- Hurricane2018 · as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
- White Chamber2018 · as Dr. Edgar Chrystler
- Lies We Tell2018 · as Anthony Quest
- Another Mother's Son2017 · as De La Haye
- Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher2016 · as Samuel Harris
- Mindhorn2016 · as Mayor
- Tear Me Apart2016 · as Old Man (voice)
- Finding Altamira2016 · as Vilanova
- Remainder2015 · as Daubenay
- Nipplejesus2015 · as Silver Fox
- Legend2015 · as Dr Humphries
- Napoleon's Waterloo2015 · as Narrator
- Robot Overlords2015 · as Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
- Mortdecai2015 · as Auctioneer
- Testament of Youth2015 · as Headmaster
- Grace of Monaco2014 · as Jean-Charles Rey
- Summer in February2013 · as Mr. Carter-Wood
- Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings2013 · as General von Thoma
- The Iron Lady2011 · as Airey Neave
- Late Bloomers2011 · as Francis
- Fiona's Story2008 · as Edward
- Persuasion2007 · as Mr. Musgrove
- Amazing Grace2006 · as Henry Thornton
- Driving Lessons2006 · as Robert
- Red Mercury2005 · as Minister
- The Minoans2004 · as Readings (voice)
- Prometheus Bound2004 · as Prometheus (voice)
- Reversals2003 · as Edward Leitch
- The Third Wave2003 · as Devlin
- Bait2002 · as Alfred White
- Bloody Sunday2002 · as Brigadier Maclellan
- Charlotte Gray2001 · as Mr. Jackson
- Arthur's Dyke2001 · as Geoffrey
- Pearl Harbor2001 · as RAF Squadron Leader
- Beautiful People1999 · as Dr Mouldy
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll1999
- Plunkett & Macleane1999 · as MP's Secretary
- Legionnaire1998 · as Mackintosh
- Sharpe: The Legend1997 · as Fenner
- The Treasure Seekers1996 · as Bastable
- Hamlet1996 · as Horatio
- Twelfth Night1996 · as Antonio
- Sharpe's Regiment1996 · as Lord Simon Fenner
- Othello1995 · as Montano
- In the Bleak Midwinter1995 · as Tom Newman
- A Breed of Heroes1994 · as Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC
- The Vision Thing1993 · as Batt Prender
- Hamlet1992 · as Hamlet
- The Trials of Oz1991 · as Dr. Michael Schofield
- Nobody Here But Us Chickens1989
- Dead Lucky1988 · as Martin Urban
- Playing Away1987 · as Derek
- The Fools on the Hill1986 · as David
- Portrait of Isa Mulvenny1985 · as Bill Thompson
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes1984 · as Sir Hugh Belcher
- The Rocking Horse Winner1982 · as Lawyer
- A Silly Little Habit1982 · as Simon
- Chariots of Fire1981 · as Aubrey Montague
- Berlin Tunnel 211981 · as Georg Heptner
- By Common Consent1975
All TV Shows (63)
- The Count of Monte Cristo2025 · as Morrel
- Fool Me Once2024 · as Neville Lockwood
- Bodies2023 · as Chief Inspector Paxman
- The Gold2023 · as Jim Clark
- Everything I Know About Love2022 · as Graham
- Signora Volpe2022 · as Michael Priest / Henry Fox
- Signora Volpe2022 · as Michael Priest
- The Nevers2021 · as Prince Albrecht
- Will2017 · as Sir Francis Walsingham
- The Crown2016 · as Michael Shea
- Thirteen2016 · as Henry Stone
- Siblings2014 · as Charles
- 37 Days2014 · as Eyre Crowe
- Endeavour2013 · as Sir Alexander Lermontov
- The Village2013 · as Crispin Rose
- Jo2013
- Father Brown2013 · as Sir Raleigh Beresford
- Secret State2012 · as General Munnery
- Call the Midwife2012 · as Charles Newgarden
- Death in Paradise2011 · as Nicholas Dunham
- Going Postal2010 · as Mr. Pump
- The Diary of Anne Frank2009 · as Albert Dussel
- Casualty 1900s2008 · as Sydney Holland
- Talk to Me2007 · as Harry
- Lewis2007 · as Charles Milner
- Torchwood2006 · as Brian Green
- Suburban Shootout2006 · as Raymond
- Jericho2005 · as Charles Hewitt
- New Tricks2004 · as James Winslow
- Foyle's War2002 · as James Collier
- Sparkhouse2002 · as Paul Lawton
- Spooks2002 · as Richard Maynard
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries2002 · as Sam Oborne
- Rockface2002 · as Duncan McFadden
- The Jury2002 · as Jeremy Crawford
- Bedtime2001 · as Ray
- Waking the Dead2001 · as Douglas Malham
- Rebus2000 · as Davis Haigh
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll1999 · as Howard
- Midsomer Murders1997 · as Isaac Starling
- Silent Witness1996 · as Professor Adrian Cowley
- Bramwell1995 · as Major Stuart Hyde
- The Choir1995 · as Leo Beckford
- The Riff Raff Element1994 · as Boyd Tundish
- To Play the King1993 · as David Mycroft
- Lipstick on Your Collar1993 · as Major Church
- A Touch of Frost1992 · as Simon Slater
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales1992 · as Hamlet (voice)
- Heartbeat1992 · as Traumatised Man / Buckley
- Drop the Dead Donkey1990
- The Ginger Tree1989 · as Father Anthony
- Agatha Christie's Poirot1989 · as Donald Fraser
- Agatha Christie's Poirot1989 · as Knighton
- Hold the Dream1987 · as Sebastian Cross
- Casualty1986 · as Phil Byron
- Lovejoy1986 · as Douglas Holden
- Screen Two1985 · as Martin Urban
- The Jewel in the Crown1984 · as Teddy Bingham
- Mansfield Park1983 · as Edmund Bertram
- The Agatha Christie Hour1982 · as Edward Robinson
- Matador1978 · as Jim Donaldson, Engelsk flyver
- Playhouse1974 · as Simon
- BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Larion Surzhansky