# Andrew Bridgmont

Andrew Bridgmont is an English actor, playwright and stage director, son of thespian and author Peter Bridgmont (January 1929 - 24 June 2019). He is primarily known for his theatre work like at the Globe Theatre and appearing in such films as Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), James Marsh's The Theory of Everything (2014) or TV series like Penny Dreadful (2014-2016) or Grandchester. Bridgmont was the winner of the International Playwriting Festival award for Red on Black.

## Education

Bridgmont did an arts foundation course, and later graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He took part in workshops at Ovalhouse in Lambeth. Bridgmont is also a classically trained violinist.

## Theatre
### Director

| Title | Year | Role | Director or Venue | Notes |
| Summer of Love | 2018 | Director | St James Theatre | actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster playing Kenneth and Claire Porter as Kenneth's mum Rebecca; Damont Prods. |
| Summer of Love | 2012 | Director | King's Head Theatre | actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster playing Kenneth and Claire Porter as Kenneth's mum Rebecca; Damont Prods. |
| Richard III | 2011 | Director | Central school of speech and drama | Damont Productions |
| The Golden Hour | 2014 | Director | St James Theatre | Damont Productions |
| Tales from the Coast | 2011 | Director | King's Head Theatre | Damont Productions |
| Someone Who'll Watch Over Me | 2008 | Director | Globe Theatre and Stara Prochownia in Warsaw | Damont Productions |

### Actor

| Title | Year | Role | Venue | Director - Notes |
| The Wider Earth | 2018 | The Reverend Henslow; Sir John Herschel & the sailor. | The 'Darwin Centre' at The Natural History Museum | 2 hours10 min. |
| The Caucasian Chalk Circle | 2018 | Mother / Lawyer andothers | Royal Lyceum Theatre | Mark Thomson (director), Simon Wilkinson (lighting design), Claire McKenzie (composer) Karen Tennant (designer). |
| Comus | 2016 | Earl of Bridgewater | The Globe Theatre | Lucy Bailey |
| Solos and chorus without harmony | 2013 | Tony Blair | Royal Court Theatre | Richard Bradberry; also starring Sasha Behar, Aidan Casey, Ralf Togneri and Martin Turner. |
| Doctor Faustus | 2007 | Vega / Cornelius / Pope | Headlong Theatre | Steve Marmion |
| The Mozart Question | 2007 - 2009 | Paolo Levi | Bristol Old Vic Theatre & New End Theatre, London | Julia MacShane |
| The Maid's Tragedy | 1997 | Lysippus | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre | Lucy Bayley |
| Democracy | 2012 - 2013 | Reinhard Wilke | Old Vic Theatre and Sheffield Crucible | Paul Miller |
| War Horse | 2010 & 2011 | Greig; Schmidtt and Songman. | Royal National Theatre / New London Theatre | Marianne Elliott / Tom Morris / Alex Sims. |
| Dangerous Corner | 2015 | Stanton | Watermill Theatre | Guy Retallack |
| The Caucasian Chalk Circle | 2015 | Stage, Horseman / Jussap's Mother / Bandit. | Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh | Mark Thomson |
| Hard Times | 2000 | Harthouse | Watermill Theatre | Guy Retallack |
| An Inspector Calls | 1998 | Gerald | The Garrick Theatre - P.W. Productions | Stephen Daldry |
| Twelfth Night | 1996 | Malvolio | Imaginary Forces | Michael Thomas |
| Life of Galileo | 2005 & 2007 | The Bursar & Bellarmine | Birmingham Repertory Theatre | Jonathan Church |
| The Winter's Tale | 1997 | Antigonus / 3rd Gentleman | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre | Mark Rylance |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 1993 | Balthazar / Friar / Sextan | Thelma Holt Productions | Matthew Warchus |
| Sherlock Holmes | 1996 | Dr. Watson | Sir Arthur Sullivans, Stage One Theatre Company | Tim Heath |
| Cue Deadly: A Film, Live On Stage | 2003 | Jay / Melville | Hungry Bob Prods at Riverside Studios | Dan Hine and Kirsty Housley |
| I Do | 2014 | David | Dante or Die | for Almeida Festival, Daphna Attias; also starring Anna Carteret. |
| Love and Other Fairy Tales | 2006 | Chaucer | Scarlet Theatre Company | Grainne Byrne |
| Love and Other Fairy Tales | 2001 | Chaucer | Scarlet Theatre Company | Katashina Dest |
| Others | 2000 | Vershinin | Scarlet Theatre Company | Katashina Dest |
| The Tempest | 1991 | Sebastian | The Globe Theatre, London and Phoebus Carte. | Mark Rylance |
| Hamlet | 1992 | Rosencrantz | RSC Stratford / Barbican | Ron Daniels |
| A Clockwork Orange | 1991 | Teacher Jack | RSC Stratford / Barbican | Ron Daniels |
| Casement | 1996 | Robert Monteith | Moving Theatre / Riverside Studios | Corin Redgrave |
| The Winter's Tale | 1998 | Antigonus | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre | David Freeman |
| Julius Caesar | 1997 | Brutus | Maison Bertaux | Metin Marlow |
| Measure for Measure | 1998 | Angelo | Maison Bertaux | Metin Marlow |

## Film

Key :
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
| Title | Year | Role | Director |
| The Theory of Everything | 2014 | Cockcroft Guest 5 | James Marsh |
| Kingsman: The Secret Service | 2014 | Kingsman Tailor | Matthew Vaughn |
| Diagnosis | 2017 | Gary | Eva Riley |
| The King's Man | 2020 | Kingsman Tailor | Matthew Vaughn |

## Television

| Title | Year | Role | Notes |
| The Windsors | 2020 | Francis Willis | Season 3, Episode 4 directed by Amanda Blue. |
| Grandchester | 2020 | Douglas Munroe | Season 5, Episode 4 directed by Christiana Ebohon. |
| Howards End | 2017 | Swanage Doctor | Season 1, Episode 4 directed by Hettie Macdonald. |
| The Halcyon | 2017 | Doctor | Season 1, Episode 4 directed by Rob Evans. |
| Penny Dreadful | 2016 | Ship Doctor | Season 3, Episode 1 titled: "The Day Tennyson Died" directed by Damon Thomas. |
| Houdini & Doyle | 2016 | Dr. Perlow | Season 1, Episode 3 titled: "In Manus Dei" directed by Daniel O'Hara. |
| The Frankenstein Chronicles | 2015 | Librarian | Season 1, Episode 2 directed by Benjamin Ross. |
| Party Animals | 2007 | Marcus Walter | Season 1, Episode 2 directed by Brian Grant. |
| Waking the Dead | 2007 | Optometrist | Season 6, Episode 9 directed by Andy Hay. |
| The Family Man | 2006 | Journalist | directed by John Strickland. |
| Holby City | 2005 | Mr. Blackburn | Season 7, Episode 42 directed by Alice Troughton. |
| Hustle | 2005 | Oliver Price | Season 2, Episode 3 directed by Alrick Riley. |
| Murphy's Law | 2004 | Dr. Phibes | Season 2, Episode 4 directed by Ed Fraiman. |
| EastEnders | 2004 | George Wakefield | directed by John Greening. |
| M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team | 2003 | DCI Bill Parkes | Season 1, Episode 6 directed by Susan Tully. |
| Casualty | 2002 | Mr. Carter | Season 17, Episode 23 directed by Gwennan Sage. |
| The Bill | 2002 | Stan Cross | Season 18, Episode 48 directed by Jamie Payne. |
| Soldier Soldier | 1994 | SIB Officer | Season 4, Episode 11 directed by Michael Brayshaw. |
| Between the Lines | 1994 | Publican (as Andrew Bridgemont) | Season 3, Episode 3 directed by Richard Standeven. |

## Documentary

| Title | Year | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| The Chrysalis Theatre Acting School | 2009 | Himself | Director by Álvaro Ramos. | |
| 1001 Inventions and the Library of Secrets | 2010 | Abbas Ibn Firnas | Directed by Alan Deakins & produced by the British foundation 1001 Inventions aiming to promote the achievements of the Golden Age of Islam. | |

## Video games

| Title | Year | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| Star Wars: The Old Republic | 2011 | Additional Voices | | |

## Books

Bridgmont is directly cited or mentioned in the following works (non-exhautive list):
* Reading Shakespeare on Stage (1995) by Herbert R. Coursen. University of Delaware Press.
* Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor: The Actors Are Come Hither: The Performance of Tragedy in a Secure Psychiatric Hospital (1992) by Murray Cox. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
* The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes (2015) by Susan Leckey. Routledge.
* Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe (Early Modern Literature in History; 1999) by P. Kiernan. Palgrave Macmillan.
* Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon: Volume 1 (1994) by Michael Mullin. Greenwood Press.
* American Theatre, Volume 18 (2001) by the Theatre Communications Group.
* Cahiers Élisabéthains (1989). Paul Valéry University Press.
* Plays and Players (1993). Hansom Books.
* London Theatre Record (1990) and the Theatre Record, Volume 21 (2001) by Ian Herbert. Theatre Record Limited.