Jonathan Forbes

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Jonathan Forbes
Born (1976-12-04) 4 December 1976 (age 47)
Occupation(s)Actor, voice actor
Years active1997–present

Jonathan Forbes (born 4 December 1976 in Dublin) is an Irish actor.

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Early life

Forbes was born in Dublin, Ireland on 4 December 1976. He attended Gonzaga College where he was in the same class as fellow actor Andrew Scott, [1] before studying English at University College Dublin.

Career

Forbes trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2001 as a BBC Carleton Hobbs Award winner. [2]

In 2001 he played the lead role in John Deery's debut feature Conspiracy of Silence , for which he was nominated Best Newcomer at the inaugural Irish Film and Television Awards. He made his stage debut in Trevor Nunn's production of A Streetcar Named Desire at The Lyttelton Theatre in 2002. Other theatre highlights include Michael Boyd's first season at the RSC (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear), Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre) and The Good Soldier (Theatre Royal Bath). Television highlights include Hornblower, Foyle's War and Titanic, Blood and Steel.

In 2011, he appeared in "The National Anthem", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror .

From 2013 to 2016, Forbes has provided the voice of the character Connor in the CGI version of the iconic British TV series Thomas and Friends .

In 2015 he starred opposite Sharon Horgan and American comedian Rob Delaney in Catastrophe , a six-part comedy series for Channel 4 [3] [4] which first aired in the UK on 19 January 2015. The second series of the show also aired in 2015, and the third in 2017. The fourth and final series was broadcast in 2019.

Forbes potrtrayed Freddy Fuller in the BBC Radio 4 drama Tracks from 2016 to 2020. [5]

In 2019, Forbes starred as the title character in the play Hamlet , which began its performance on 28 March 2019 [6]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1997The Art of SalesmanshipStewartShort film
2003 Conspiracy of Silence Daniel McLaughlin
2013 Thomas & Friends: King of the Railway Connor (voice)UK/US versions
2014MadeDavidShort film
2016 Thomas & Friends: The Great Race Connor (voice)UK/US versions
2018All The World's a StageThe ActorShort film
2018 Eve Toby LangPost-production

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002 The Magnificent Ambersons First BeauTelevision movie
2003 Horatio Hornblower 3 Midshipman Charles OrrockTelevision movie
2003 Hornblower: Duty Midshipman Charles OrrockTelevision movie
2007 The Bill Kevin ToddEpisode: "Cracking Under Pressure"
2007 Doctors Jake WallisEpisode: "Sand"
2008 Foyle's War JohannEpisode: "Broken Souls"
2010 Bloody Foreigners Witold UrbanowiczEpisode: "The Untold Battle of Britain"
2011 Casualty Jack TannerEpisode: "Starting Over"
2011 Black Mirror BrowneEpisode: "The National Anthem"
2012 Titanic: Blood and Steel Eddy Hatton11 episodes
Television miniseries
2013 Holby City Todd ParishEpisode: "Unravelled"
2013–16 Thomas & Friends Connor (voice)UK/US versions
2015 Pypo VictorEpisode: "Lactation"
2015-2017 Catastrophe Fergal13 episodes
2015 Pypo Police OfficerEpisode: "Asking for It"
2015 New Tricks John HartwellEpisode: "The Russian Cousin"
2017 Fearless Dominic Truelove6 episodes
Television miniseries

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2018 Vampyr Sean Hampton (voice)
2020 Gwent: The Witcher Card Game Gezras of Leyda (voice)In the "Way of the Witcher" expansion.
2022 Dying Light 2 Stay Human Hakon (voice)
2024 Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Hornsent (voice)

Radio

YearTitleRoleNotes
2016-2020 Tracks Freddy Fuller

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  2. "BBC - Soundstart - Previous Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award Winners".
  3. "Press Release: Catastrophe - a new C4 comedy created by Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan". Channel 4. 30 May 2014.
  4. Jarlath Regan (12 November 2016). "Jonathan Forbes". An Irishman Abroad (Podcast) (165 ed.). SoundCloud . Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  5. "Tracks - S1 - Episode 1: The Nervus Vagus". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 2 June 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  6. Wild, Stephi (28 February 2019). "HAMLET Starring Jonathan Forbes Begins Performances 3/28". www.broadwayworld.com. Broadway World. Retrieved 29 August 2021.