Nicholas Farrell
Nicholas Farrell is a British actor known for his versatile performances in film and television. He gained recognition for his roles in 'Chariots of Fire' and 'The Dictators: Mussolini.' With a career spanning several decades, Farrell is noted for his strong presence and ability to... Read More
Known for
Legend (1985)
A woodland boy works with elves to rescue a princess and a unicorn from the grasp of the Lord of Darkness and his followers.
The Iron Lady (2011)
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid...
Mortdecai (2015)
An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
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| Year | Title | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |
Past LifeWhen an unemployed reporter is hypnotized as part of a past life regression event, he wakes not with memories of... |
Elliot Reed | |
| 2025 |
CreditorsNobody enjoys being in debt, financial or otherwise, but August Strindberg’s 1888 play – which the author ranked as his... |
Adolf | |
| 2025 |
The Count of Monte CristoYoung sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo... |
Morrel | |
| 2024 | Professor Dale Farringdon | ||
| 2024 |
Widow ClicquotAfter her husband's death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and... |
Jean-Remy Moet | |
| 2024 |
Fool Me OnceWhen ex-soldier Maya sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep... |
Neville Lockwood | |
| 2023 |
BodiesOne victim, found dead on a London street. Four detectives, in four different time periods, must solve the mystery to... |
Chief Inspector Paxman | |
| 2023 |
The GoldOn 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across gold bullion worth £26m. |
Jim Clark | |
| 2022 |
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost StoryIt’s a cold Christmas Eve and mean-spirited miser Ebenezer Scrooge has an unexpected visit from the spirit of his former... |
Ebenezer Scrooge | |
| 2022 |
Everything I Know About LoveIn a 2012 London house-share, childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy — now in their 20s — experience bad dates,... |
Graham | |
| 2022 |
Signora VolpeAfter years as an MI6 operative, Sylvia winds up in a village in Umbria visiting her sister Isabel and becomes... |
Michael Priest / Henry Fox | |
| 2022 |
Signora VolpeAfter years as an MI6 operative, Sylvia winds up in a village in Umbria visiting her sister Isabel and becomes... |
Michael Priest | |
| 2021 |
Munich - The Edge of WarAt the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose... |
Sir Alexander Cadogan | |
| 2021 |
Dream HorseThe inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very... |
Philip Hobbs | |
| 2021 |
The NeversIn the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly... |
Prince Albrecht | |
| 2019 |
Christmas in the HighlandsA New York sales manager is sent to the remote Scottish Highlands at Christmas to acquire a limited edition perfume... |
Duke of Glenmorie | |
| 2019 |
The Man Who Saw Too MuchThe Man Who Saw Too Much tells the story of 106-year-old Boris Pahor, believed to be the oldest known survivor... |
Yurka Galitzine (voice) | |
| 2019 |
The Coldest GameWarsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is... |
G. Moran | |
| 2019 |
Cosmos Within UsAiken, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, returns to his former family home to try and keep hold of his memories. |
Aiken | |
| 2018 |
HurricanePolish pilots overcome prejudice to fight against the Luftwaffe with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in... |
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding | |
| 2018 |
White ChamberThe United Kingdom. Soon. Civil war rages. A woman wakes up in a blindingly white cuboid cell. Using its sophisticated... |
Dr. Edgar Chrystler | |
| 2018 |
Lies We TellA trusted driver must deal with his dead boss's Muslim mistress, her dark past pulling him into a life-and-death showdown... |
Anthony Quest | |
| 2017 |
WillThe wild story of young William Shakespeare's arrival onto the punk-rock theater scene in 16th century London -- the seductive,... |
Sir Francis Walsingham | |
| 2017 |
Another Mother's SonThe true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of... |
De La Haye | |
| 2016 |
Jack the Ripper: The London SlasherA serial killer walks the streets of Whitechapel, London, attacking and killing women, which later came to be known as... |
Samuel Harris | |
| 2016 |
The CrownThe gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.... |
Michael Shea | |
| 2016 |
MindhornA washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with... |
Mayor | |
| 2016 |
Tear Me ApartIn the wastelands of post-apocalyptic England, two young brothers turn to cannibalism to survive, only to fall for their prey,... |
Old Man (voice) | |
| 2016 |
Finding AltamiraThe story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at... |
Vilanova | |
| 2016 |
ThirteenA 26-year-old woman learns to live again after 13 years in captivity. |
Henry Stone | |
| 2015 |
RemainderA London man who loses his memory when he's struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his... |
Daubenay | |
| 2015 |
NipplejesusA bouncer finds out that guarding modern art is just as hazardous as controlling the ropes at a nightclub. |
Silver Fox | |
| 2015 |
LegendSuave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London... |
Dr Humphries | |
| 2015 |
Napoleon's WaterlooIt lasted only one day on a small piece of land, but the impact the Battle of Waterloo had on... |
Narrator | |
| 2015 |
Robot OverlordsEarth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk... |
Sentry Robot/Air Drone (voice) | |
| 2015 |
MortdecaiAn art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to... |
Auctioneer | |
| 2015 |
Testament of YouthTestament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by... |
Headmaster | |
| 2014 |
SiblingsEach week, through their own selfishness and idiocy, we see Hannah and Dan — the worst brother and sister in... |
Charles | |
| 2014 |
Grace of MonacoThe story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince... |
Jean-Charles Rey | |
| 2014 |
37 DaysThis three-part political thriller follows the catastrophic chain of events leading up to World War I from the assassination of... |
Eyre Crowe | |
| 2013 |
Summer in FebruaryThe Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild... |
Mr. Carter-Wood | |
| 2013 |
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret RecordingsBritish intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 10,000 German prisoners of war without... |
General von Thoma | |
| 2013 |
EndeavourThe early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will... |
Sir Alexander Lermontov | |
| 2013 |
The VillageThe Village is a BBC television drama created and written by Peter Moffat. Consisting of two six-episode series—the project intended... |
Crispin Rose | |
| 2013 |
JoJo is an English-language French police procedural television series created by Canadian/USA screenwriter René Balcer of Law & Order fame... |
Unknown character | |
| 2013 |
Father BrownFather Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective... |
Sir Raleigh Beresford | |
| 2012 |
Secret StateSecret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks. |
General Munnery | |
| 2012 |
Call the MidwifeDrama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s,... |
Charles Newgarden | |
| 2011 |
The Iron LadyA look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on... |
Airey Neave | |
| 2011 |
Death in ParadiseA brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island... |
Nicholas Dunham | |
| 2011 |
Late BloomersLate Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age.... |
Francis | |
| 2010 |
Going PostalMoist von Lipwig is a con-man with a particular talent-- he is utterly unremarkable. When his execution is stayed in... |
Mr. Pump | |
| 2009 |
The Diary of Anne FrankFive-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from... |
Albert Dussel | |
| 2008 |
Fiona's StoryFiona fights to hold her family together after husband is accused of owning child pornography. |
Edward | |
| 2008 |
Casualty 1900sFeaturing true cases, characters and events taken from the London Hospital records, nurse's ward diaries and intimate memoirs, these gritty... |
Sydney Holland | |
| 2007 |
Talk to MeMitch Moore is a DJ with a charm that women simply can't resist. He hosts a late-night phone-in on London... |
Harry | |
| 2007 |
PersuasionAnne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her... |
Mr. Musgrove | |
| 2007 |
LewisInspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them. |
Charles Milner | |
| 2006 |
TorchwoodThe exploits of a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial. |
Brian Green | |
| 2006 |
Amazing GraceThe true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce... |
Henry Thornton | |
| 2006 |
Driving LessonsA shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins... |
Robert | |
| 2006 |
Suburban ShootoutSuburban Shootout is a British satirical black comedy television series produced for Channel 5 and Paramount Comedy by Feelgood Fiction... |
Raymond | |
| 2005 |
JerichoJericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart... |
Charles Hewitt | |
| 2005 |
Red MercuryThree young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get... |
Minister | |
| 2004 |
The MinoansBest known for the myth of the Minotaur, Crete gave birth to Europe's first civilization. Yet little is known about... |
Readings (voice) | |
| 2004 |
Prometheus BoundBased on the play of the same name by Aeschylus , it retells the myth of Prometheus, who stole fire... |
Prometheus (voice) | |
| 2004 |
New TricksNew Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of... |
James Winslow | |
| 2003 |
ReversalsYoung medical professional couple set out to prove that gender is not a factor in the ability to do a... |
Edward Leitch | |
| 2003 |
The Third WaveJohan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants... |
Devlin | |
| 2002 |
Foyle's WarAs WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on... |
James Collier | |
| 2002 |
SparkhouseThe relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation... |
Paul Lawton | |
| 2002 |
SpooksTense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to... |
Richard Maynard | |
| 2002 |
The Inspector Lynley MysteriesDS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders. |
Sam Oborne | |
| 2002 |
RockfaceIn the fictional Scottish Highlands town of Glenntannoch, Dr Gordon Urquhart leads a mountain rescue team, whose major missions and... |
Duncan McFadden | |
| 2002 |
BaitWhen Jack Blake picks up a woman and her daughter stranded when their car breaks down, he is struck by... |
Alfred White | |
| 2002 |
The JuryThe Jury is a British television serial broadcast in 2002. The series was the first ever to be allowed to... |
Jeremy Crawford | |
| 2002 |
Bloody SundayThe dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by... |
Brigadier Maclellan | |
| 2001 |
Charlotte GrayThis is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling... |
Mr. Jackson | |
| 2001 |
Arthur's DykeTwenty years ago, three men set out on the longest walk of their lives. They vowed to repeat the walk,... |
Geoffrey | |
| 2001 |
BedtimeBedtime was a British comedy-drama written and directed by Andy Hamilton and broadcast by the BBC. It ran for three... |
Ray | |
| 2001 |
Waking the DeadA detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases. |
Douglas Malham | |
| 2001 |
Pearl HarborThe lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter... |
RAF Squadron Leader | |
| 2000 |
RebusDetective series set in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. Inspector John Rebus, whose methods earn him the wrath of his superiors,... |
Davis Haigh | |
| 1999 |
Beautiful PeopleIn London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is... |
Dr Mouldy | |
| 1999 |
Sex, Chips & Rock n' RollEllie and Arden Brooks seem to be destined to play out their lives behind a Manchester chip shop counter. Mercilessly... |
Howard | |
| 1999 |
Sex, Chips & Rock n' RollThe BBC drama about growing up in the turbulent, tuneful '60s. Manchester, England, 1965. "You'll never meet anybody worth knowing... |
Unknown character | |
| 1999 |
Plunkett & MacleaneWill Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a... |
MP's Secretary | |
| 1998 |
LegionnaireAlain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he... |
Mackintosh | |
| 1997 |
Sharpe: The LegendSeveral years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the... |
Fenner | |
| 1997 |
Midsomer MurdersThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up... |
Isaac Starling | |
| 1996 |
HamletHamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle.... |
Horatio | |
| 1996 |
The Treasure SeekersFive motherless children, with the help of a famous doctor, are determined to save their financially strapped father. |
Bastable | |
| 1996 |
Twelfth NightShakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she... |
Antonio | |
| 1996 |
Sharpe's RegimentJune, 1813. Major Richard Sharpe's men are in mortal danger - not from the French, but from the bureaucrats of... |
Lord Simon Fenner | |
| 1996 |
Silent WitnessA team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible. |
Professor Adrian Cowley | |
| 1995 |
OthelloThe evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in... |
Montano | |
| 1995 |
In the Bleak MidwinterOut of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting... |
Tom Newman | |
| 1995 |
BramwellThe story of Eleanor Bramwell , a pioneering female doctor in the late nineteenth century, and the struggles she has... |
Major Stuart Hyde | |
| 1995 |
The ChoirBased on Joanna Trollope's novel. Explores the internal politics and scandals of a British cathedral choir school. |
Leo Beckford | |
| 1994 |
A Breed of HeroesIn 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by... |
Lt. Col Ian Gowrie, MC | |
| 1994 |
The Riff Raff ElementThe Riff Raff Element is a 1990's British comedy-drama series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock, who... |
Boyd Tundish | |
| 1993 |
To Play the KingFrancis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda. |
David Mycroft | |
| 1993 |
The Vision ThingIn the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God. |
Batt Prender | |
| 1993 |
Lipstick on Your CollarDuring the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in... |
Major Church | |
| 1992 |
HamletHamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge. |
Hamlet | |
| 1992 |
A Touch of FrostJack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice... |
Simon Slater | |
| 1992 |
Shakespeare: The Animated TalesAn animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated... |
Hamlet (voice) | |
| 1992 |
HeartbeatSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical... |
Traumatised Man / Buckley | |
| 1991 |
The Trials of OzDramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity. |
Dr. Michael Schofield | |
| 1990 |
Drop the Dead DonkeyA sitcom set in the offices of "GlobeLink News" after its acquisition by media mogul Sir Roysten Merchant. Led by... |
Unknown character | |
| 1989 |
The Ginger TreeIn 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in... |
Father Anthony | |
| 1989 |
Nobody Here But Us ChickensThree short plays celebrating people with disabilities. |
Unknown character | |
| 1989 |
Agatha Christie's PoirotFrom England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits... |
Donald Fraser | |
| 1989 |
Agatha Christie's PoirotFrom England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits... |
Knighton | |
| 1988 |
Dead LuckyMartin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately wants to... |
Martin Urban | |
| 1987 |
Hold the DreamHold the Dream is a two-part 1987 television serial based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's 1985 novel of the same name,... |
Sebastian Cross | |
| 1987 |
Playing AwayTo mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a... |
Derek | |
| 1986 |
The Fools on the HillThis is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra... |
David | |
| 1986 |
CasualtyDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their... |
Phil Byron | |
| 1986 |
LovejoyThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he... |
Douglas Holden | |
| 1985 |
Portrait of Isa MulvennyIt is the 1950s: Bill Thompson is a middle-class English boy sent by his father to serve an engineering apprenticeship... |
Bill Thompson | |
| 1985 |
Screen TwoSeries of single made-for-television dramas. |
Martin Urban | |
| 1984 |
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the ApesA shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady... |
Sir Hugh Belcher | |
| 1984 |
The Jewel in the CrownIn India, during the final years of British rule in World War II, an unjust arrest for rape sets off... |
Teddy Bingham | |
| 1983 |
Mansfield ParkMansfield Park is a British six-part television drama serial based on Jane Austen's 1814 novel of the same name. Produced... |
Edmund Bertram | |
| 1982 |
The Rocking Horse WinnerIn Paul's family, there is always talk about needing more money. The tension in the household over lack of funds... |
Lawyer | |
| 1982 |
The Agatha Christie HourThis ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were... |
Edward Robinson | |
| 1982 |
A Silly Little HabitA woman with an apparently happy and privileged life begins shoplifting |
Simon | |
| 1981 |
Chariots of FireIn the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris... |
Aubrey Montague | |
| 1981 |
Berlin Tunnel 21In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin... |
Georg Heptner | |
| 1978 |
MatadorMatador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish... |
Jim Donaldson, Engelsk flyver | |
| 1975 |
By Common ConsentIn a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military... |
Unknown character | |
| 1974 |
PlayhouseA one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC. |
Simon | |
| 1965 |
BBC Play of the MonthA BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured... |
Larion Surzhansky |
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Nicholas Farrell is best known for his roles in 'Chariots of Fire,' 'The Dictators: Mussolini,' and 'The Other Boleyn Girl.' His performances have received critical acclaim.
Nicholas Farrell was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 'Chariots of Fire,' highlighting his talent in the industry.
Nicholas Farrell made his film debut in the 1981 film 'Chariots of Fire,' where he played the character of 'Liddell.' This role helped launch his acting career.
Nicholas Farrell's estimated net worth is around $5 million, reflecting his successful career in film and television over the years.
Nicholas Farrell has two children. Their names are not publicly disclosed, as he prefers to keep his family life private.
Nicholas Farrell has acted in a variety of genres, including drama, historical films, and comedies, showcasing his versatility as an actor.
Nicholas Farrell is known for his strong presence and ability to convey complex emotions, often bringing depth to the characters he portrays.
Nicholas Farrell was born in London, England, on 6 October 1961, where he began his journey in the performing arts.