Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Frost; 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor.
Farrell was educated at Fryerns Grammar and Technical School (which merged with another school to become Fryerns Comprehensive School in 1968), in the town of Basildon in the Southern English county of Essex, near London, followed by the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the cathedral city of Bristol in South West England.
Farrell's early screen career in...
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Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Frost; 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor.
Farrell was educated at Fryerns Grammar and Technical School (which merged with another school to become Fryerns Comprehensive School in 1968), in the town of Basildon in the Southern English county of Essex, near London, followed by the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the cathedral city of Bristol in South West England.
Farrell's 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...
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