Career
Harrington has had starring roles in the Welsh show Hinterland (known as Y Gwyll in Welsh), [4] [5] 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. [6]
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. [7]
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. [8] [9]
In 2018 he appeared at the National Theatre in London in Home I'm Darling, a co-production with Theatr Clwyd. [10]
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. [11]
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