Richard Armitage

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1971-08-22 (54 years old)

Place of Birth

Leicester, England, UK

Richard Armitage

Biography

Richard Armitage was born and raised in Leicester, England. He attended Pattison College in Binley Road, Coventry, and studied at LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art). His first appearance on the screen was in a small role in This Year's Love (1999), but it was Sparkhouse (2002) (TV) that gave him a break-through role as the charming but a bit odd character of John Standring opposite Sarah Smart. After two guest-roles in "Cold Feet" (1997) in 2003 and "Between the Sheets" (2003), he landed a role as Steven in Frozen (2005/I), which eventually led him to play the lead role in the big hit BBC drama "North & South" (2004). Ot...

Acting

2005

Frozen

as Steven

2012

2013

2001

Macbeth

as Angus

2009

The Great Sperm Race

as Narrator (Voice)

2014

Into the Storm

as Gary Morris

2014

The Crucible

as John Proctor

2022

The Man from Rome

as Father Quart

2017

Pilgrimage

as Raymond De Merville

2017

Sleepwalker

as Dr. Scott White

2017

Brain on Fire

as Tom Cahalan

2018

I Am Urban

as Chop

1999

This Year's Love

as Smug Man at Party

2018

Ocean's Eight

as Claude Becker

2019

My Zoe

as James Lewis

2020

The Lodge

as Richard

2005

Macbeth

as Peter Macduff

2021

Space Sweepers

as James Sullivan / The CEO of UTS

2020

Uncle Vanya

as Astrov

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Now & Then

as Chris

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