Richard_Harrington_(actor)

Richard Harrington (actor)

Richard Harrington (actor)

British actor

For other people with the same name, see Richard Harrington.

Richard Harrington (born 12 March 1975) is a Welsh actor.

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Early and personal life

Harrington was born in Gurnos and brought up in Heolgerrig, Merthyr Tydfil.[1] Harrington speaks Welsh as a second language; he came 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.[2][3]

Harrington has two children with a former girlfriend and two with his partner Hannah Daniel,[4] with whom he lives in Crystal Palace, London.[3][5]

Harrington took part in the 2012 and 2013 Snowdonia Marathon alongside his friend and fellow actor Mark Lewis Jones.[6] They both ran Marathon des Sables in 2014.

Career

Harrington has had starring roles in the Welsh show Hinterland (known as Y Gwyll in Welsh),[7][8] 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.[9]

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.

In 2015, Harrington won another BAFTA Cymru Award for his role as DCI Tom Matthias in Y Gwyll / Hinterland.[10]

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.[11][12]

In 2018 he appeared at the National Theatre in London in Home I'm Darling, a co-production with Theatr Clwyd.[13]

In February 2021, speaking of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Harrington revealed that he had worked as a Deliveroo driver to supplement his income during lockdown, due to the lack of work.[14]

Filmography

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Theatre

  • House of America – Fiction Factory
  • Gas Station Angel – Royal Court
  • Stone City Blue – Theatre Clwyd
  • Art and Guff – Soho Theatre
  • Other Hands – Soho Theatre
  • Look Back in Anger – Theatre Royal, Bath
  • Coriolanus – NTW
  • Home I'm Darling – National Theatre

References

  1. [1]
    "Gurnos-born actor Harrington nominated for S4C drama role". walesonline.co.uk. Media Wales. 21 April 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Scandi-style crime thriller showcases the land of my fathers, says Richard Harrington". Wales Online. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  3. [3]
    Andrew Collins (11 September 2015). "Hinterland / Y Gwyll's Richard Harrington: 'Everybody around me sounded like Pingu'". The Guardian.
  4. [4]
    "Hannah Daniel: Gwaith, gyrfa a bod yn fam". BBC Cymru Fyw (in Welsh). Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  5. [5]
    Vicki Power (23 April 2016). "Hinterland star Richard Harrington on DCI Tom Mathias: He is his own worst enemy". Daily Express.
  6. [6]
    "31st Snowdonia Marathon Eryri 2013". Welsh Athletics. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  7. [7]
    Theatre-Wales (25 November 2013). "Y Gwyll-Fanfare for Fiction Factory".
  8. [8]
    "Hinterland star Richard Harrington 'hated everything' about the hit show". Wales Online. 10 September 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  9. [9]
    "Cymru: Actor in 1995". bafta.org. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  10. [10]
    "Winners Announced - British Academy Cymru Awards 2015". bafta.org. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 27 September 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  11. [11]
    Presenter: Richard Harrington; Producers: Alan Golding, Dylan Wyn Richards; Director: Dylan Wyn Richards (15 April 2017). "Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War". My Grandfather's War. BBC. BBC Two Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  12. [12]
    "The men who left the Valleys to fight fascism in Spain". BBC News Online. BBC. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  13. [13]
    Theatre-Wales (7 July 2018). "Richard Harrington Gives a Beautiful, Unshowy Performance".
  14. [14]
    "Covid: Poldark's Richard Harrington took Deliveroo job in lockdown". BBC News. 28 February 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  15. [15]
    "The men who left the Valleys to fight fascism in Spain". BBC News. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
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