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Hugh Bonneville (born 10 November 1963), born Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams, is an English stage, film, television and radio actor.
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Biography
Personal life
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 [1] on 4 November 1998. They have a son, Felix, and live in West Sussex.[2]
Acting career
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 as Richard Bonneville. His early roles were usually good-natured bumbling characters like Bernie in Notting Hill (1999) and Mr. Rushworth in Mansfield Park (1999). In the BBC television series, Take A Girl Like You (2000) and Armadillo (2001), he played more villainous characters, leading up to the domineering Henleigh Grandcourt in Daniel Deronda (2002) and the psychopathic killer James Lampton in The Commander (2003). In Love Again, he played the poet Philip Larkin. In 2004, he played Sir Christopher Wren in the docudrama Wren – The Man Who Built Britain. Many say his best achievement to date was his performance as the young John Bayley opposite Kate Winslet in Iris (2001), his performance lauded by critics and for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Filmography
Film
- Frankenstein (1994)
- Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
- Notting Hill (1999)
- Mansfield Park (1999)
- Blow Dry (2001)
- High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
- Iris (2001)
- The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)
- The Gathering Storm (2002)
- Conspiracy of Silence (2003)
- Stage Beauty (2004)
- Piccadilly Jim (2004)
- Underclassman (2005)
- Man to Man (2005)
- Asylum (2005)
- Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006)
- Four Last Songs (2007)
- Hola to the World (2007)
- One of those Days (2008)
- Hippie Hippie Shake (2009)
- Knife Edge (2009)
- 1939 (2009)
- French Film (2009)
- From Time to Time (2009)
- Shanghai (2009)
Television
- Cadfael (1994)
- The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (1997)
- Madame Bovary (2000)
- Doctor Zhivago (2002)
- Tipping the Velvet (2002)
- Courting Alex (2006)
- Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006)
- Diary of a Nobody (2007)
- The Vicar of Dibley (2007)
- Five Days (2007)
- Lost in Austen (2008)
- Freezing (2008)
- Bonekickers (2008)
- Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
- Hunter (2009)
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