Hugh Bonneville
Hugh Bonneville recently completed filming THE UNDERCLASSMAN, a Miramax production starring
Nick Cannon and
Roselyn Sanchez, for director Marcos Siega. He can soon be seen in ASYLUM, opposite
Natasha Richardson and
Ian McKellen, for director
David Mackenzie, and PICCADILLY JIM, with fellow STAGE BEAUTY cast members
Tom Wilkinson and
Tom Hollander, for director
John McKay. He previously worked with
Richard Eyre on the director's Academy Award-winning IRIS, for which Bonneville won the Best Young Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival and a BAFTA Best Supporting Actor nomination for his portrayal of the Young John Bayley. Other feature credits include
Patricia Rozema's MANSFIELD PARK and
Roger Michell's NOTTING HILL.
On television, Bonneville recently starred in the controversial drama Hear The Silence and played the title role in Philip Larkin: Love Again. His many small screen credits include Daniel Deronda; Tipping The Velvet, Armadillo, The Cazalets, Take a Girl Like You, Madame Bovary and the Emmy Award-winning Churchill drama, The Gathering Storm. On stage, Hugh Bonneville most recently appeared in US and Them at the Hampstead Theatre. Other theatre work includes Sam Mendes' production of Habeas Corpus at the Donmar, where he also appeared in Beautiful Thing, which he later co-produced in the West End. His work for the Royal Shakespeare Company includes playing Laertes to Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, The Alchemist, Two Gentlemen of Verona and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Seasons at the Royal National Theatre include The School For Scandal, Yerma and the title role in The Devil's Disciple.
Note: This profile was written in or before
2004.
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