Richard Harrington (actor)
Richard Harrington is a Welsh actor.
Biography
Harrington was born in Gurnos and brought up in Heolgerrig, Merthyr Tydfil. He has had starring roles in the Welsh show Hinterland, 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.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.
Harrington speaks Welsh as a second language, having come 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. He has two children with a former girlfriend and one with his partner Hannah Daniel.
Harrington took part in the 2012 and 2013 Snowdonia Marathon alongside his friend and fellow actor Mark Lewis Jones. They both ran Marathon Des Sables in 2014.
In 2015, Harrington won another BAFTA Cymru Award for his role as DCI Tom Matthias in Y Gwyll / Hinterland.
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.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1987 | The District Nurse | Donald Turner | TV series |
| 1989 | Screen One | TV series | |
| 1992 | Civvies | Taffy's neighbour | TV series |
| 1993 | Gadael Lenin | Charlie | |
| 1993 & 1995 | Wales Playhouse | Sion / Dafydd | TV series BAFTA Cymru Award - Best Actor |
| 1995 | Oliver's Travels | Student | TV mini-series |
| 1995 & 1997 | A Mind to Kill | Paul Tam | TV series |
| 1996 | The Proposition | Evan | |
| 1997 | House of America | Cat | |
| 1997 | Tiger Bay | Warwick | TV series |
| 1997 | Breeders | Jack | |
| 1997 | 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 |
| 2000 | Care | Tony Collins | TV film |
| 2001 | Score | Neil | TV film |
| 2001 | A Day Out | Girl's Father | Short |
| 2002 | High Speed | Spike | |
| 2002 | The Hidden City | Barney | TV series |
| 2002 | Mule | Ray | Short |
| 2003 | Rehab | Powell | TV film |
| 2003 | Holby City | Lee Walmsley | TV series |
| 2003 | The Ride | Spike | |
| 2004 | Secret Passage | Joseph | |
| 2004 | Mathilde | Babyface | |
| 2004 | Gunpowder, Treason & Plot | Thomas Percy | TV film |
| 2004 | Hustle | Sam Richards | TV series |
| 2004 | Silent Witness | Stephen Barnes | TV series |
| 2004 | Spooks | Will North | TV series |
| 2005 | Fatigue | ||
| 2005 | Bleak House | Allan Woodcourt | TV mini-series |
| 2006 | ' | Yohanon | TV series |
| 2006 | Daddy's Girl | Stephen | |
| 2006 | Casualty | Jerry Goater | TV series |
| 2007 | Five Days | Daf Parry | TV series |
| 2007 | The All Together | Jerry Davies | |
| 2007 | The Contractor | Terry Winchell | Video |
| 2007 | Y Pris | Stuart | TV series |
| 2007 | Sold | Paul Bamforth | TV series |
| 2007–08 | HolbyBlue | DS Luke French | TV series |
| 2008 | Strap-on Owl Beak | Actor | Short |
| 2008 | Hope Eternal | Evan | |
| 2008 | New Tricks | Ash | TV series |
| 2009 | Missing | Ryan Long | TV series |
| 2009 | Land Girls | Adam Blackfield | TV series |
| 2009 | Collision | James Taylor / Ben Hickman | TV mini-series |
| 2010 | M.I. High | Tommy Blumenheck | TV series |
| 2010 | Midsomer Murders | Leo Fincher | TV series |
| 2010 | Pen Talar | Defi Lewis | TV series |
| 2011 | Lark Rise to Candleford | Gabriel Cochrane | TV series |
| 2011 | Little Munchkin | Mr. Jones | Short |
| 2011 | Burton: Y Gyfrinach | Richard Burton | TV film |
| 2011 | My Times | Short | |
| 2012 | Casualty | Chris Johnson | TV series |
| 2012 | Elfie Hopkins | Timothy Jenkins | |
| 2012 | Alys | Simon | TV series |
| 2013–16 | Y Gwyll / Hinterland | DCI Tom Mathias | TV series - lead role |
| 2014 | Under Milk Wood | Neighbour | TV film |
| 2014 | Wolfblood | Gerwyn | TV series |
| 2015 | Just Jim | Headmaster | |
| 2015–16 | Poldark | Captain Andrew Blamey | TV series |
| 2016 | Royal Wives at War | Narrator | TV film |
| 2016 | Stella | Ian Meyer | TV series |
| 2016 | My Grandfather's War | Himself | BBC TV documentary about the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War |
| 2017 | Inspector George Gently | Michael Clements | TV series |
| 2018 | Requiem | Aron Morgan | TV mini-series |
| 2018 | Father Brown | Benedict Northam | TV series |
| 2018 | Death in Paradise | Bryn Williams | TV Series |
| 2018 | Hatchback | John | Short |
| 2018 | On the Edge | DI Nolan | TV mini-series |
| 2018 | Gwen | Edward Morris | |
| 2018 | Last Summer | Dai Hop | |
| 2019 | The Crown | Fred Phillips | TV series |
| 2019 | Bitter Sky | Roy | Short |
| 2019–20 | Gangs of London | Mal | TV series |
| 2020 | Endeavour | Dr. Dai Ferman | TV series |
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