Richard Harrington | |
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Born | Merthyr Tydfil, Wales | 12 March 1975
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1975–present |
Children | 4 |
Richard Harrington (born 12 March 1975) is a Welsh actor.
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.
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]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1987 | The District Nurse | Donald Turner | TV series (1 episode: "A Blind Eye") |
1989 | Screen One | TV series (Series 1: episode 2: "Nineteen 96") | |
1992 | Civvies | Taffy's neighbour | TV series (1 episode) |
1993 | Gadael Lenin (Leaving Lenin) | Charlie | |
1993, 1995 | Wales Playhouse | Sion / Dafydd | TV series (2 episodes: "Broken Glass" & "Dafydd") BAFTA Cymru Award - Best Actor (Yr Actor Gorau) |
1995 | Oliver's Travels | Student | TV mini-series |
1995-1997 | A Mind to Kill | Paul Tam | TV series (3 episodes) |
1996 | The Proposition | Evan | |
1996 | Pobol y Cwm | Ossie | |
1997 | House of America | Cat | |
Tiger Bay | Warwick | TV series (3 episodes) | |
Breeders | Jack | ||
Motor Driving Made Easy | Reflex Action | Short | |
1998 | A Light in the Valley | Cast member | |
1999 | Oh Little Town of Bethlehem | Martin | Short |
Coronation Street | Owen Williams | TV series (4 episodes) | |
2000 | Care | Tony Collins | TV film |
2001 | Score | Neil | TV film |
A Day Out | Girl's Father | Short | |
2002 | High Speed | Spike | |
The Hidden City | Barney | TV series | |
Mule | Ray | Short | |
2003 | Rehab | Powell | TV film |
Holby City | Lee Walmsley | TV series (1 episode: "By Any Other Name") | |
The Ride | Spike | ||
2004 | Secret Passage | Joseph | |
Mathilde | Babyface | ||
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot | Thomas Percy | TV film | |
Hustle | Sam Richards | TV series (1 episode: "Cops and Robbers") | |
Silent Witness | Stephen Barnes | TV series (2 episodes: "Nowhere Fast: Parts 1 & 2") | |
Spooks | Will North | TV series (6 episodes) | |
2005 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Gary Mileham | TV series Series 9: episode 33: "Heads You Lose: Parts 1 & 2") |
Fatigue | |||
Bleak House | Allan Woodcourt | TV mini-series (7 episodes) | |
2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Yohanon | TV series (1 episode: "Rebellion") |
Daddy's Girl | Stephen | ||
Casualty | Jerry Goater | TV series (1 episode: "Last Orders") | |
2007 | Five Days | Daf Parry | TV series (3 episodes) |
The All Together | Jerry Davies | ||
The Contractor | Terry Winchell | Video | |
Y Pris | Stuart | TV series (1 episode: "Parch (Respect)") | |
Sold | Paul Bamforth | TV series (1 episode) | |
2007–2008 | HolbyBlue | DS Luke French | TV series (20 episodes) |
2008 | Strap-on Owl Beak | Actor | Short |
Hope Eternal | Evan | ||
New Tricks | Ash | TV series (1 episode: "Communal Living") | |
2009 | Missing | Ryan Long | TV series (1 episode: "Deeper Problems") |
Land Girls | Adam Blackfield | TV series (2 episodes: "Trekkers" & "Destinies") | |
Collision | James Taylor / Ben Hickman | TV mini-series (3 episodes) | |
2010 | M.I. High | Tommy Blumenheck | TV series (1 episode: "Don't Cook Now") |
Midsomer Murders | Leo Fincher | TV series (1 episode: "Blood on the Saddle") | |
Pen Talar | Defi Lewis | TV series (7 episodes) | |
2011 | Lark Rise to Candleford | Gabriel Cochrane | TV series (Series 4: 6 episodes) |
Little Munchkin | Mr. Jones | Short | |
Burton: Y Gyfrinach | Richard Burton | TV film | |
My Times | Short | ||
2012 | Casualty | Chris Johnson | TV series (2 episodes: "Duty of Care" & "Death and Doughnuts") |
Elfie Hopkins | Timothy Jenkins | ||
Alys | Simon | TV series (8 episodes) | |
2013–2016 | Y Gwyll / Hinterland | DCI Tom Mathias | TV series - lead role |
2014 | Under Milk Wood | Neighbour | TV film |
Wolfblood | Gerwyn | TV series (4 episodes) | |
2015 | Just Jim | Headmaster | |
2015–2016 | Poldark | Captain Andrew Blamey | TV series (5 episodes) |
2016 | Royal Wives at War | Narrator | TV film |
Stella | Ian Meyer | TV series | |
My Grandfather's War | Himself | BBC TV documentary about the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War [15] | |
2017 | Inspector George Gently | Michael Clements | TV series (1 episode: "Gently and the New Age") |
2018 | Requiem | Aron Morgan | TV mini-series (6 episodes) |
Father Brown | Benedict Northam | TV series (1 episode: "The Face of the Enemy") | |
Death in Paradise | Bryn Williams | TV series (1 episode: "Meditated in Murder") | |
Hatchback | John | Short | |
On the Edge | DI Nolan | TV mini-series (1 episode: "A Mother's Love") | |
Gwen | Edward Morris | ||
Last Summer | Dai Hop | ||
2019 | The Crown | Fred Phillips | TV series (Season 3: episode 3: "Aberfan") |
Bitter Sky | Roy | Short | |
2020 | Gangs of London | Mal | TV series (4 episodes) |
2020 | Endeavour | Dr. Dai Ferman | TV series (2 episodes: "Oracle" & "Zenana") |
2021 | Fflam | Bedwyr Neale | S4C series; 6 episodes |
2022 | Fisherman's Friends: One and All | Morgan Jenkins | |
2023 | Consent | Headmaster | Channel Four |
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