Nicholas Farrell

Nicholas C. Frost (born 1955), known professionally as Nicholas Farrell, is an English stage, film and television actor.

Farrell was born in Brentwood, Essex.

He was educated at Fryerns Grammar and Technical School in Basildon, Essex, He furthered his education studying acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Farrell's early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

• Chariots of Fire (1981) as Aubrey Montague

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.

• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) as Sir Hugh Belcher

• Playing Away (1987) as Derek

He provided the voice of Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992).

• In the Bleak Midwinter (US title A Midwinter's Tale) (1995) as Tom Newman (Laertes, Fortinbras, and messengers)

• Othello (1995) as Montano

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).

• Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1996) as Antonio

• Hamlet (1996) as Horatio

• The Treasure Seekers (1996) as Bastable

• Gator King (1997) as Henchman

• Legionnaire (1998) as Mackintosh

• Plunkett & Macleane (1999) as M.P.s Secretary

• Beautiful People (1999) as Dr. Mouldy

• Pearl Harbor (2001) as RAF Squadron Leader

• The Discovery of Heaven (2001) as Mr. Quist (uncredited)

• Arthur's Dyke (2001) as Geoffrey

• Charlotte Gray (2001) as Mr. Jackson

• Bloody Sunday (2002) as Brigadier Patrick Maclellan

• The Third Wave (2003) as Frank Devlin

• Red Mercury (2005) as Minister

In 2009, He played the role of Albert Dussell in the BBC series The Diary of Anne Frank.

He also voiced the Golem Pump 19 in the 2010 two-part adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Going Postal.

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.

In 2011, he played Margaret Thatcher's close friend and advisor Airey Neave in The Iron Lady.

In the 2011 Chichester Festival he played schoolmasters Dewley and Crocker-Harris in the double bill of South Downs and The Browning Version.

In 2021 he played Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story at the Nottingham Playhouse.

In 2014, he portrayed Eyre Crowe in the British documentary drama miniseries 37 Days, about the weeks leading up to World War I. Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot films, Sharpe's Regiment, Lipstick on Your Collar, To Play the King, Roman Mysteries, Torchwood, and Collision.

He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey, Call the Midwife, and Casualty.

In 2014, Farrell starred in the Grace Kelly biopic Grace of Monaco alongside Nicole Kidman and Tim Roth, and the short film The Pit and the Pendulum: A Study in Torture, based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story.

In 2020, he starred as the racehorse trainer in the Welsh film Dream Horse, alongside Toni Collette, Damian Lewis, and Owen Teale.

In 2021 he was chosen as the face of the Saga plc television campaign 'Experience is Everything'.

He is married to Scottish actress Stella Gonet, and they have a daughter, Natasha.