Hugh Bonneville (born 10 November 1963), born Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams, is an English stage, film, television and radio actor.
Bonneville was born in London, studied at Sherborne School and read theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge before training for the stage at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He married artist Lucinda 'Lulu' Evans in Kensington and Chelsea, London on 4 November 1998. They have a son, Feli...
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Hugh Bonneville (born 10 November 1963), born Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams, is an English stage, film, television and radio actor.
Bonneville was born in London, studied at Sherborne School and read theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge before training for the stage at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He married artist Lucinda 'Lulu' Evans in Kensington and Chelsea, London on 4 November 1998. They have a son, Felix, and live in West Sussex.
Bonneville's first professional stage appearance was at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. In 1987 he joined the National Theatre where he appeared in several plays, then the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1991, where he played Laertes to Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1992 — 1993). He was also Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Bergetto in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Kastril and later Surly in The Alchemist. He worked with Sam Mendes, a contemporary of his at Cambridge.
He made his television debut in 1991, billed...
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