Richard Harrington (actor)

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Richard Harrington
Born (1975-03-12) 12 March 1975 (age 49)
OccupationActor
Years active1975present
Children4

Richard Harrington (born 12 March 1975) is a Welsh actor.

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Early and personal life

Harrington was born in Gurnos and brought up in Heolgerrig, Merthyr Tydfil. [1] Harrington speaks Welsh as a second language; he came from an English-speaking family but studied in a Welsh Medium school in Merthyr. He has said that filming Y Gwyll improved his fluency significantly. [2] [3]

Harrington has two children with a former girlfriend and two with his partner Hannah Daniel, [4] with whom he lives in Crystal Palace, London. [3] [5]

Harrington took part in the 2012 and 2013 Snowdonia Marathon alongside his friend and fellow actor Mark Lewis Jones. [6] They both ran Marathon des Sables in 2014.

Career

Harrington has had starring roles in the Welsh show Hinterland (known as Y Gwyll in Welsh), [7] [8] Bleak House , Jimmy McGovern's Gunpowder, Treason & Plot , and Gavin Claxton's comedy feature film The All Together . He has also had roles in Coronation Street , Spooks , Casualty , Holby City , Hustle , Dalziel and Pascoe , Silent Witness , Lark Rise to Candleford, and Poldark. He won a BAFTA Cymru Award for his portrayal of a young gay hustler in the BBC film Dafydd, part of the Wales Playhouse programme. [9]

On stage, Harrington has toured with Fiction Factory/Y Cwmni's productions of Ed Thomas's plays House of America, Gas Station Angel and Stone City Blue. He also appeared in the 1997 film version of House of America .

In 2015, Harrington won another BAFTA Cymru Award for his role as DCI Tom Matthias in Y Gwyll / Hinterland. [10]

In April 2017, Harrington presented the BBC Two Wales programme Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War, in which he followed the journey his grandfather had made through Spain in 1937 in order to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. [11] [12]

In 2018 he appeared at the National Theatre in London in Home I'm Darling, a co-production with Theatr Clwyd. [13]

In February 2021, speaking of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Harrington revealed that he had worked as a Deliveroo driver to supplement his income during lockdown, due to the lack of work. [14]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1987 The District Nurse Donald TurnerTV series (1 episode: "A Blind Eye")
1989 Screen One TV series (Series 1: episode 2: "Nineteen 96")
1992 Civvies Taffy's neighbourTV series (1 episode)
1993Gadael Lenin (Leaving Lenin)Charlie
1993, 1995 Wales Playhouse Sion / DafyddTV series (2 episodes: "Broken Glass" & "Dafydd")
BAFTA Cymru Award - Best Actor (Yr Actor Gorau)
1995 Oliver's Travels StudentTV mini-series
1995-1997 A Mind to Kill Paul TamTV series (3 episodes)
1996The PropositionEvan
1996 Pobol y Cwm Ossie
1997 House of America Cat
Tiger Bay WarwickTV series (3 episodes)
BreedersJack
Motor Driving Made EasyReflex ActionShort
1998A Light in the ValleyCast member
1999Oh Little Town of BethlehemMartinShort
Coronation Street Owen WilliamsTV series (4 episodes)
2000 Care Tony CollinsTV film
2001ScoreNeilTV film
A Day OutGirl's FatherShort
2002High SpeedSpike
The Hidden CityBarneyTV series
MuleRayShort
2003RehabPowellTV film
Holby City Lee WalmsleyTV series (1 episode: "By Any Other Name")
The RideSpike
2004 Secret Passage Joseph
Mathilde Babyface
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot Thomas PercyTV film
Hustle Sam RichardsTV series (1 episode: "Cops and Robbers")
Silent Witness Stephen BarnesTV series (2 episodes: "Nowhere Fast: Parts 1 & 2")
Spooks Will NorthTV series (6 episodes)
2005 Dalziel and Pascoe Gary MilehamTV series Series 9: episode 33: "Heads You Lose: Parts 1 & 2")
Fatigue
Bleak House Allan WoodcourtTV mini-series (7 episodes)
2006 Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire YohanonTV series (1 episode: "Rebellion")
Daddy's GirlStephen
Casualty Jerry GoaterTV series (1 episode: "Last Orders")
2007 Five Days Daf ParryTV series (3 episodes)
The All Together Jerry Davies
The Contractor Terry WinchellVideo
Y Pris StuartTV series (1 episode: "Parch (Respect)")
Sold Paul BamforthTV series (1 episode)
2007–2008 HolbyBlue DS Luke French TV series (20 episodes)
2008Strap-on Owl BeakActorShort
Hope EternalEvan
New Tricks AshTV series (1 episode: "Communal Living")
2009 Missing Ryan LongTV series (1 episode: "Deeper Problems")
Land Girls Adam BlackfieldTV series (2 episodes: "Trekkers" & "Destinies")
Collision James Taylor / Ben HickmanTV mini-series (3 episodes)
2010 M.I. High Tommy BlumenheckTV series (1 episode: "Don't Cook Now")
Midsomer Murders Leo FincherTV series (1 episode: "Blood on the Saddle")
Pen Talar Defi LewisTV series (7 episodes)
2011 Lark Rise to Candleford Gabriel CochraneTV series (Series 4: 6 episodes)
Little MunchkinMr. JonesShort
Burton: Y GyfrinachRichard BurtonTV film
My TimesShort
2012 Casualty Chris JohnsonTV series (2 episodes: "Duty of Care" & "Death and Doughnuts")
Elfie Hopkins Timothy Jenkins
Alys SimonTV series (8 episodes)
2013–2016 Y Gwyll / Hinterland DCI Tom MathiasTV series - lead role
2014 Under Milk Wood NeighbourTV film
Wolfblood GerwynTV series (4 episodes)
2015 Just Jim Headmaster
2015–2016 Poldark Captain Andrew BlameyTV series (5 episodes)
2016Royal Wives at WarNarratorTV film
Stella Ian MeyerTV series
My Grandfather's WarHimselfBBC TV documentary about the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War [15]
2017 Inspector George Gently Michael ClementsTV series (1 episode: "Gently and the New Age")
2018 Requiem Aron MorganTV mini-series (6 episodes)
Father Brown Benedict NorthamTV series (1 episode: "The Face of the Enemy")
Death in Paradise Bryn WilliamsTV series (1 episode: "Meditated in Murder")
HatchbackJohnShort
On the EdgeDI NolanTV mini-series (1 episode: "A Mother's Love")
GwenEdward Morris
Last SummerDai Hop
2019 The Crown Fred PhillipsTV series (Season 3: episode 3: "Aberfan")
Bitter SkyRoyShort
2020 Gangs of London MalTV series (4 episodes)
2020 Endeavour Dr. Dai FermanTV series (2 episodes: "Oracle" & "Zenana")
2021FflamBedwyr Neale S4C series; 6 episodes
2022 Fisherman's Friends: One and All Morgan Jenkins
2023 Consent Headmaster Channel Four

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