Nicholas Farrell studied at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school and he made an early big-screen appearance in the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire. His numerous television credits include such popular favourites as Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey, Poirot, Torchwood, Casualty, Collision and New Tricks. He has appeared in a number of Royal Shakespeare Company productions and his outing on the West End stage, in the double bill of South Downs and The Browning Version, opposite Anna Chancellor, has received glowing reviews. He has played notable Shakespearean roles on film, in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Oliver Parker's Othello and Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night and his other film credits include Pearl Harbor, Bloody Sunday, Charlotte Grey, Amazing Grace and The Iron Lady, in which he played Margaret Thatcher's ill-fated advisor Airey Neave.
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