Hugh Bonneville Biography

Hugh Bonneville was a member of the National Youth Theatre studied Theology at Cambridge and made his professional debut at the Open Air Theatre Regent's Park in 1986 bashing a cymbal in A Midsummer Night's Dream and understudying Ralph Fiennes as Lysander. He then spent several seasons with the National Theatre where he appeared in School For Wives Yerma Entertaining Strangers Juno and the Paycock and played Charles Surface in The School for Scandal and the title role in The Devil's Disciple. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1991 appearing in Two Gentlemen of Verona The Alchemist 'Tis Pity She's a Whore The Virtuso and Amphibians. He also played Laertes to Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. His work at the RSC brought him a nomination for The Ian Charleson Award. Other theatre includes Habeas Corpus at the Donmar directed by Sam Mendes and seasons at Colchester Leicester Haymarket and Chichester. He also appeared in My Night with Reg (Criterion & Playhouse) Us and Them (Hampstead) and Cloaca (Old Vic directed by Kevin Spacey).
In recent years Hugh has become a familiar face to television audiences with leading roles in The Cazalets Take a Girl Like You Armadillo Daniel Deronda and The Commander. He appeared in the Emmy award-winning The Gathering Storm and played the poet Philip Larkin in Love Again. Other credits range from comedies like The Robinsons The Vicar of Dibley Freezing Rev Getting On and Mr. Stink to dramas such as Diary of a Nobody Tsunami: The Aftermath Miss Austen Regrets Five Days Hunter The Silence and Doctor Who.

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