Nicholas Farrell
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Charles Frost, in September 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park. In 1984, he appeared in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Jewel in the Crown. Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet , in which he played Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (1996), Othello (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995). He provided the voice of Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot movies, Sharpe's Regiment, To Play the King, Torchwood and Collision. He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey and Casualty. Farrell's theatre work includes performances of The Cherry Orchard, Camille, and The Crucible as well as Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He is married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Farrell, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Mortdecai (2015)
as Auctioneer
Pearl Harbor (2001)
as RAF Squadron Leader
Legend (2015)
as Dr Humphries
Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
as MP's Secretary
Past Life (2026)
as Elliot Reed
The Coldest Game (2019)
as G. Moran
Chariots of Fire (1981)
as Aubrey Montague
Munich - The Edge of War (2021)
as Sir Alexander Cadogan
Finding Altamira (2016)
as Vilanova
Grace of Monaco (2014)
as Jean-Charles Rey
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
as Sir Hugh Belcher
The Iron Lady (2011)
as Airey Neave
Hamlet (1996)
as Horatio
Creditors (2025)
as Adolf
Legionnaire (1998)
as Mackintosh
Testament of Youth (2015)
as Headmaster
Widow Clicquot (2024)
as Jean-Remy Moet
Robot Overlords (2015)
as Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
Hurricane (2018)
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
as Fenner
Summer in February (2013)
as Mr. Carter-Wood
Bait (2002)
as Alfred White
Persuasion (2007)
as Mr. Musgrove
Mindhorn (2016)
as Mayor
Nipplejesus (2015)
as Silver Fox
Dream Horse (2021)
as Philip Hobbs
Amazing Grace (2007)
as Henry Thornton
Sharpe's Regiment (1996)
as Lord Simon Fenner
Going Postal 2in1 (2011)
as Mr. Pump (voice)
Bloody Sunday (2002)
as Brigadier Maclellan
A Silly Little Habit (1982)
as Simon
Twelfth Night (1996)
as Antonio
Remainder (2015)
as Daubenay
Portrait of Isa Mulvenny (1985)
as Bill Thompson
Charlotte Gray (2001)
as Mr. Jackson
Another Mother's Son (2017)
as De La Haye
By Common Consent (1975)
Actor
Nobody Here But Us Chickens (1989)
Actor
Othello (1995)
as Montano
Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher (2016)
as Samuel Harris
Christmas in the Highlands (2019)
as Duke of Glenmorie
Driving Lessons (2006)
as Robert
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings (2013)
as General von Thoma
Arthur's Dyke (2001)
as Geoffrey
Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981)
as Georg Heptner
Lies We Tell (2018)
as Anthony Quest
Late Bloomers (2011)
as Francis
In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
as Tom Newman
The Third Wave (2003)
as Devlin
White Chamber (2018)
as Dr. Edgar Chrystler
Beautiful People (1999)
as Dr Mouldy
The Treasure Seekers (1996)
as Bastable
The Trials of Oz (1991)
as Dr. Michael Schofield
The Man Who Saw Too Much (2019)
as Yurka Galitzine (voice)
Tear Me Apart (2016)
as Old Man (voice)
A Breed of Heroes (1994)
as Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC
The Rocking Horse Winner (1982)
as Lawyer
A Toast to Love (2024)
as Professor Dale Farringdon
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2022)
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Playing Away (1987)
as Derek
The Fools on the Hill (1986)
as David
The Minoans (2004)
as Readings (voice)
Red Mercury (2005)
as Minister
Fiona's Story (2008)
as Edward
Hamlet (1992)
as Hamlet
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll (1999)
Actor
The Vision Thing (1993)
as Batt Prender
Reversals (2003)
as Edward Leitch
Cosmos Within Us (2019)
as Aiken
Prometheus Bound (2004)
as Prometheus (voice)
Napoleon's Waterloo (2015)
as Narrator
Dead Lucky (1988)
as Martin Urban