Richard Harrington (actor)

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Richard Harrington (actor) - Wikipedia

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Richard Harrington
Born	(1975-03-12) 12 March 1975 (age 49) Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1975–present
Children	4

Richard Harrington (born 12 March 1975) is a Welsh actor.

Early and personal life

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.

Career

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]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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
1999	Coronation Street	Owen Williams	TV series (4 episodes)
2000	Care	Tony Collins	TV film
2001	Score	Neil	TV film
2001	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
2014	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")
2019	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

Theatre

House of America – Fiction Factory
Gas Station Angel – Royal Court
Stone City Blue – Theatre Clwyd
Art and Guff – Soho Theatre
Other Hands – Soho Theatre
Look Back in Anger – Theatre Royal, Bath
Coriolanus – NTW
Home I'm Darling – National Theatre

External links

BBC Bleak House profile
Richard Harrington at the British Film Institute
Richard Harrington at IMDb

References

^ "Gurnos-born actor Harrington nominated for S4C drama role". walesonline.co.uk. Media Wales. 21 April 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
^ "Scandi-style crime thriller showcases the land of my fathers, says Richard Harrington". Wales Online. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b Andrew Collins (11 September 2015). "Hinterland / Y Gwyll's Richard Harrington: 'Everybody around me sounded like Pingu'". The Guardian.
^ "Hannah Daniel: Gwaith, gyrfa a bod yn fam". BBC Cymru Fyw (in Welsh). Retrieved 19 February 2021.
^ Vicki Power (23 April 2016). "Hinterland star Richard Harrington on DCI Tom Mathias: He is his own worst enemy". Daily Express.
^ "31st Snowdonia Marathon Eryri 2013". Welsh Athletics. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
^ Theatre-Wales (25 November 2013). "Y Gwyll-Fanfare for Fiction Factory".
^ "Hinterland star Richard Harrington 'hated everything' about the hit show". Wales Online. 10 September 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
^ "Cymru: Actor in 1995". bafta.org. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
^ "Winners Announced - British Academy Cymru Awards 2015". bafta.org. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 27 September 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
^ Presenter: Richard Harrington; Producers: Alan Golding, Dylan Wyn Richards; Director: Dylan Wyn Richards (15 April 2017). "Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War". My Grandfather's War. BBC. BBC Two Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
^ "The men who left the Valleys to fight fascism in Spain". BBC News Online. BBC. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
^ Theatre-Wales (7 July 2018). "Richard Harrington Gives a Beautiful, Unshowy Performance".
^ "Covid: Poldark's Richard Harrington took Deliveroo job in lockdown". BBC News. 28 February 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
^ "The men who left the Valleys to fight fascism in Spain". BBC News. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.

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