Sean Rigby

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Sean Rigby
Born (1989-08-15) 15 August 1989 (age 34)
Other namesChubba
Education London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
OccupationActor
Years active2012–present
SpouseClaire

Sean Rigby (born 15 August 1989) is a stage and television actor from Preston, Lancashire, England.

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Career

Rigby graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2012. [1]

He is best known for his role as Police Constable, later Police Sergeant and Detective Sergeant Jim Strange in Endeavour , the prequel series to Inspector Morse , from its inception in 2012 to 2023. [1] [2] A New York Times reviewer said Rigby's interpretation of Strange "brings a vulpine grace" to the character. [3]

In the 2017-aired British historical drama television mini-series, Gunpowder , Rigby played William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, who received a letter, maybe or maybe not self-penned, warning of the Gunpowder Plot. [2] [4] [5] [6] [7]

In 2015, Rigby played the security guard Moe in a production of Alistair McDowall's Pomona at the National Theatre, Temporary Theatre, which had previously opened at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond in 2014. [8] The show, which included Rigby as a security guard's "troubled accomplice", was reviewed in The Guardian by Michael Billington, who gave the production three stars. [9] Henry Hitchings of the Evening Standard felt Rigby's character was "especially unsettling". [10]

In 2015, Rigby appeared as Henry in a 13-minute short drama Isabella. In 2017, he starred as the only character in the four-minute short film, Crossing Seas.

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