Nicholas Farrell
- Known for
- Acting
- Birthplace
- Brentwood, Essex, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Past Life 2026
as Elliot Reed
Creditors 2025
as Adolf
A Toast to Love 2024
as Professor Dale Farringdon
Widow Clicquot 2024
as Jean-Remy Moet
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story 2022
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Munich - The Edge of War 2021
as Sir Alexander Cadogan
Dream Horse 2021
as Philip Hobbs
Christmas in the Highlands 2019
as Duke of Glenmorie
The Man Who Saw Too Much 2019
as Yurka Galitzine (voice)
The Coldest Game 2019
as G. Moran
Cosmos Within Us 2019
as Aiken
Hurricane 2018
as Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
White Chamber 2018
as Dr. Edgar Chrystler
Lies We Tell 2018
as Anthony Quest
Another Mother's Son 2017
as De La Haye
Jack the Ripper: The London Slasher 2016
as Samuel Harris
Mindhorn 2016
as Mayor
Tear Me Apart 2016
as Old Man (voice)
Finding Altamira 2016
as Vilanova
Remainder 2015
as Daubenay
Nipplejesus 2015
as Silver Fox
Legend 2015
as Dr Humphries
Napoleon's Waterloo 2015
as Narrator
Robot Overlords 2015
as Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice)
Mortdecai 2015
as Auctioneer
Testament of Youth 2015
as Headmaster
Grace of Monaco 2014
as Jean-Charles Rey
Summer in February 2013
as Mr. Carter-Wood
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings 2013
as General von Thoma
The Iron Lady 2011
as Airey Neave
Late Bloomers 2011
as Francis
Going Postal 2in1 2011
as Mr. Pump (voice)
Fiona's Story 2008
as Edward
Persuasion 2007
as Mr. Musgrove
Amazing Grace 2007
as Henry Thornton
Driving Lessons 2006
as Robert
Red Mercury 2005
as Minister
The Minoans 2004
as Readings (voice)
Prometheus Bound 2004
as Prometheus (voice)
- Reversals
Reversals 2003
as Edward Leitch
The Third Wave 2003
as Devlin
Bait 2002
as Alfred White
Bloody Sunday 2002
as Brigadier Maclellan
Charlotte Gray 2001
as Mr. Jackson
Arthur's Dyke 2001
as Geoffrey
Pearl Harbor 2001
as RAF Squadron Leader
Beautiful People 1999
as Dr Mouldy
- Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll 1999
Actor
Plunkett & Macleane 1999
as MP's Secretary
Legionnaire 1998
as Mackintosh
Sharpe: The Legend 1997
as Fenner
Hamlet 1996
as Horatio
The Treasure Seekers 1996
as Bastable
Twelfth Night 1996
as Antonio
Sharpe's Regiment 1996
as Lord Simon Fenner
Othello 1995
as Montano
In the Bleak Midwinter 1995
as Tom Newman
A Breed of Heroes 1994
as Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC
The Vision Thing 1993
as Batt Prender
Hamlet 1992
as Hamlet
The Trials of Oz 1991
as Dr. Michael Schofield
- Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Nobody Here But Us Chickens 1989
Actor
Dead Lucky 1988
as Martin Urban
Playing Away 1987
as Derek
The Fools on the Hill 1986
as David
Portrait of Isa Mulvenny 1985
as Bill Thompson
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984
as Sir Hugh Belcher
The Rocking Horse Winner 1982
as Lawyer
A Silly Little Habit 1982
as Simon
Chariots of Fire 1981
as Aubrey Montague
Berlin Tunnel 21 1981
as Georg Heptner
By Common Consent 1975
Actor
Credits from TMDB.