Anthony Howell (actor)

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Anthony Howell
Born
Anthony Matthew Howell

(1971-06-27) 27 June 1971 (age 52)
Lake District, England, UK
OccupationActor
Years active1999–present

Anthony Howell (born 27 June 1971) [1] is an English actor, best known for his starring role as Sgt. Paul Milner in the British TV series Foyle's War and Margit/Morgott in Elden Ring .

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Early years

Howell was born in the Lake District. He trained to be an actor at the Drama Centre in North London. [2] His acting debut came when he began a world tour with Robert Lepage's stage play The Geometry of Miracles. [3]

Career

He subsequently starred in the BBC four-part series Wives and Daughters (1999) before joining the 2000 Royal Shakespeare Company season in Stratford-Upon-Avon, where he took leading roles in the three main plays of that year: Orlando in As You Like It , Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Antipholous of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors , playing opposite David Tennant.

After leaving the RSC in 2001 he filmed three TV series; Ultimate Force, Helen West and the first season of Foyle's War. He went on to spend more than ten years in Foyle's War, working alongside Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks.

During the months he wasn't filming Foyle's War he returned to the theatre. In 2005 he starred in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None in the West End of London. He played the lead in the first stage adaptation of John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman which toured the UK in 2006. [4] In 2008, Howell appeared in the Primavera production of Jingo: A Farce of War by Charles Wood at London's Finborough Theatre, [5] then toured with the Peter Hall company in an adaptation of Henry James's Portrait of a Lady and Ibsen's A Doll's House.

In 2010 he played Gordon Way in the BBC TV adaptation of Dirk Gently, loosely based on the books by Douglas Adams. Later that year he joined Shakespeare's Globe to perform in Henry VIII, and also in the world premiere of Howard Brenton's Anne Boleyn, playing the role of a young Henry VIII opposite Miranda Raison as Anne, roles they both reprised at the Globe in the following year. [6] [7] Two years later he played Trigorin in a new adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull by Evening Standard Award winning writer, Anya Reiss at the Southwark Playhouse.

He also played Jean Neuhaus, a Belgian chocolatier, in an episode in Season 2 of Mr Selfridge . [8]

Howell filmed Dracula in Budapest, [9] an NBC Universal series starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. He also voices Victor Belmont in the 2014 video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 , as well as providing the motion capture for the protagonist, Dracula. He also provided the voice and motion capture for Weyland-Yutani employee Christopher Samuels in the 2014 survival horror game, Alien: Isolation .

In the summer seasons of 2014 and 2015 he appeared on the stage of the Globe in London, in 2014 as Cassius in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and in 2015 as Bishop Santa Cruz in Helen Edmundson's The Heresy of Love .

In 2017 he played Cliff in the horror film Widow's Walk. [10]

In 2018 BBC Radio 4 aired a five-part drama, The Unforgiven. Set in 1984, this was a prequel to the BBC One television series Waking the Dead , which ran from 2000 to 2011. The Unforgiven was written by Barbara Machin, the creator of Waking the Dead, and features the original cast, the exception being Trevor Eve, who played Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd in the TV series, but was replaced by Howell for the radio series.

Theatre

YearTitle (playwright)RoleNotes
1998 The Promise (Aleksei Arbuzov)Marat [11]
1998The Geometry of Miracles (Robert Lepage)Wes PetersEx Machina Theatre Company, Quebec City
2000Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)BenvolioRoyal Shakespeare Company
2000The Comedy of Errors (William Shakespeare)Antipholus of EphesusRoyal Shakespeare Company [12]
2002As You Like It (William Shakespeare)OrlandoRoyal Shakespeare Company
2005The Lifeblood (Glyn Maxwell)Sir Thomas Gorge Edinburgh Festival, [13] Riverside Studios, London
2005–06And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)Lombard Gielgud Theatre, London
2007 The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)Charles Wilsonadapted for the stage by Mark Healy, No. 1 Tour
2008Jingo: A Farce of War (Charles Wood)Ian Finborough Theatre, London
2008 Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)Ralphstage play by Nicki Frei, [14] paired with A Doll's House, [15] Theatre Royal, Bath and touring
2008 A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)Krogstadpaired with Portrait of a Lady, Theatre Royal, Bath and touring
2010 Henry VIII (William Shakespeare)Duke of Buckingham The Globe, London [16]
2010–11 Anne Boleyn (Howard Brenton)Henry VIIIThe Globe, London London
2012 The Seagull (Anton Chekhov)Trigorin Southwark Playhouse London [17]
2014 Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)CassiusThe Globe, London [18]
2015The Heresy of Love (Helen Edmundson)Bishop Santa CruzThe Globe, London [19]

Filmography

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1999 Wives and Daughters Roger HamleyMain cast (miniseries)
2001Helen WestDinsdale Cotton2 episodes
2001SwallowDr. Max Stokes3 episodes
2002 The Other Boleyn Girl William CareyTV movie
2002 Ultimate Force Cpl. Sam Leonard1 episode
2002–2010 Foyle's War Paul MilnerMain cast (series 1–6)
2003 Hawking HamletTV movie
2010 Dirk Gently Gordon Way1 episode
2013 Dracula Lord Laurent3 episodes
2013 Mr Selfridge Jean Neuhaus1 episode
2013 Shetland Peter Latimer2 episodes
2015 Crossing Lines Nigel St.Clair1 episode
2015 You, Me and the Apocalypse Father Christophe3 episodes
2024 Fool Me Once (TV series) Christopher Swain2 episodes

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2014 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 VictorVoice
2014 Alien: Isolation SamuelsVoice
2014 Dragon Age: Inquisition Gaspard de ChalonsVoice
2015 Grey Goo SingletonVoice
2015 Soma (video game) Johan RossVoice
2017 Horizon: Zero Dawn Behavas / DervahlVoice
2018 Vampyr Jonathan ReidVoice
2018 Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales Ardal aep Dahy / Eyck of Denesle / EldainVoice
2018 Call of Cthulhu Edward PierceVoice [20]
2018 World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Brother TheroldVoice
2019 Anthem The MonitorVoice
2019 Observation S.A.M.Voice
2019 Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Fourchenault LeveilleurVoice
2019 Arknights MłynarVoice
2020 Demon's Souls Puppeteer / Yurt, the Silent ChiefVoice
2020 World of Warcraft: Shadowlands LaurentVoice
2021 Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Fourchenault LeveilleurVoice
2022 Elden Ring Margit/MorgottVoice
2023 Diablo IV EliasVoice
2023 Final Fantasy XVI CyrilVoice
2023 Lies of P GeppettoVoice

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2015 Woman in Gold Austrian Official
2019Widow's WalkCliff

Discography

YearTitleRoleAuthorNotesRef.
2011Doctor Who - The Valley of DeathEdward Perskins Philip Hinchcliffe First published October 2011 by Big Finish Productions, part of The Fourth Doctor Box Set [21]
2012Doctor Who - The Renaissance ManEdward Justin Richards First published February 2012 by Big Finish Productions [22]
2012The Liberator Chronicles Volume 1Gustav NyrronSimon Guerrier, Nigel Fairs and Peter AnghelidesFirst published February 2012 by Big Finish Productions [23]
2012Great Nature PoemsNarrator Robert Browning, William Shakespeare, Gerald Manley Hopkins and othersFirst published 2 April 2012 by Audible [24]
2012Doctor Who - The First SontaransJacobAndrew SmithFirst published July 2012 by Big Finish Productions [25]
2012The Liberator Chronicles Volume 2Gustav Nyrron Simon Guerrier, Eddie Robson and Nigel Fairs First published August 2012 by Big Finish Productions [26]
2012The FallNarratorClaire McGowanFirst published 21 September 2012 by Headline Digital [27]
2013Doctor Who - The Lady of MerciaProfessor John Bleak Paul Magrs First published May 2013 by Big Finish Productions [28]
2014The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 1Dr. Keel John Dorney First published 31 January 2014 by Big Finish Productions [29]
2014The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 2Dr. KeelJohn DorneyFirst published 31 July 2014 by Big Finish Productions [30]
2015The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 3Dr. KeelJohn DorneyFirst published 31 January 2015 by Big Finish Productions [31]
2015The Liberator Chronicles Volume 11Gustav NyrronNigel Fairs, Iain McLaughlin, Andrew SmithFirst published March 2015 by Big Finish Productions [32]
2015Jago & Litefoot Series 09Victor Bataille Jonathan Morris, Justin Richards, Simon Barnard, Paul MorrisFirst published April 2015 by Big Finish Productions [33]
2015The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 4Dr. KeelJohn DorneyFirst published 31 July 2015 by Big Finish Productions [34]
2015The Sixth Doctor - The End of the LineTim HopeSimon Barnard and Paul MorrisFirst published August 2015 by Big Finish Productions as part of The Sixth Doctor - The Last Adventure [35]

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