# Anthony Howell (actor)

Anthony Matthew Howell (born 27 June 1971) is an English actor, best known for his starring role as Sgt. Paul Milner in the British TV series Foyle's War and Margit/Morgott in Elden Ring.

## Early years

Howell was born in the Lake District. He trained to be an actor at the Drama Centre in North London. His acting debut came when he began a world tour with Robert Lepage's stage play The Geometry of Miracles.

## Career

He subsequently starred in the BBC four-part series Wives and Daughters (1999) before joining the 2000 Royal Shakespeare Company season in Stratford-Upon-Avon, where he took leading roles in the three main plays of that year: Orlando in As You Like It, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Antipholous of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors, playing opposite David Tennant.
After leaving the RSC in 2001 he filmed three TV series; Ultimate Force, Helen West and the first season of Foyle's War. He went on to spend more than ten years in Foyle's War, working alongside Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks.
During the months he wasn't filming Foyle's War he returned to the theatre. In 2005 he starred in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None in the West End of London. He played the lead in the first stage adaptation of John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman which toured the UK in 2006. In 2008, Howell appeared in the Primavera production of Jingo: A Farce of War by Charles Wood at London's Finborough Theatre, then toured with the Peter Hall company in an adaptation of Henry James's Portrait of a Lady and Ibsen's A Doll's House.
In 2010 he played Gordon Way in the BBC TV adaptation of Dirk Gently, loosely based on the books by Douglas Adams. Later that year he joined Shakespeare's Globe to perform in Henry VIII, and also in the world premiere of Howard Brenton's Anne Boleyn, playing the role of a young Henry VIII opposite Miranda Raison as Anne, roles they both reprised at the Globe in the following year. Two years later he played Trigorin in a new adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull by Evening Standard Award winning writer, Anya Reiss at the Southwark Playhouse.
He also played Jean Neuhaus, a Belgian chocolatier, in an episode in Season 2 of Mr Selfridge.
Howell filmed Dracula in Budapest, an NBC Universal series starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers. He also voices Victor Belmont in the 2014 video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, as well as providing the motion capture for the protagonist, Dracula. He also provided the voice and motion capture for Weyland-Yutani employee Christopher Samuels in the 2014 survival horror game, Alien: Isolation.
In the summer seasons of 2014 and 2015 he appeared on the stage of the Globe in London, in 2014 as Cassius in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and in 2015 as Bishop Santa Cruz in Helen Edmundson's The Heresy of Love.
Between 2016 - 2020 he was a station imaging voice over for BBC Three Counties Radio.
In 2017 he played Cliff in the horror film Widow's Walk.
In 2018 BBC Radio 4 aired a five-part drama, The Unforgiven. Set in 1984, this was a prequel to the BBC One television series Waking the Dead, which ran from 2000 to 2011. The Unforgiven was written by Barbara Machin, the creator of Waking the Dead, and features the original cast, the exception being Trevor Eve, who played Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd in the TV series, but was replaced by Howell for the radio series.
He played Palmer, the assassin contracted by George Cornelius(Patrick Malahyde) to kill DCI John Luther (Idris Elba) in the final two episodes of Luther (series 5) which aired in 2019.

## Theatre

| Year | Title (playwright) | Role | Notes |
| 1998 | The Promise (Aleksei Arbuzov) | Marat | |
| 1998 | The Geometry of Miracles (Robert Lepage) | Wes Peters | Ex Machina Theatre Company, Quebec City |
| 2000 | Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare) | Benvolio | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 2000 | The Comedy of Errors (William Shakespeare) | Antipholus of Ephesus | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 2002 | As You Like It (William Shakespeare) | Orlando | Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 2005 | The Lifeblood (Glyn Maxwell) | Sir Thomas Gorge | Edinburgh Festival, Riverside Studios, London |
| 2005–06 | And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie) | Lombard | Gielgud Theatre, London |
| 2007 | The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles) | Charles Wilson | adapted for the stage by Mark Healy, No. 1 Tour |
| 2008 | Jingo: A Farce of War (Charles Wood) | Ian | Finborough Theatre, London |
| 2008 | Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) | Ralph | stage play by Nicki Frei, paired with A Doll's House, Theatre Royal, Bath and touring |
| 2008 | A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) | Krogstad | paired with Portrait of a Lady, Theatre Royal, Bath and touring |
| 2010 | Henry VIII (William Shakespeare) | Duke of Buckingham | The Globe, London |
| 2010–11 | Anne Boleyn (Howard Brenton) | Henry VIII | The Globe, London London |
| 2012 | The Seagull (Anton Chekhov) | Trigorin | Southwark Playhouse London |
| 2014 | Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare) | Cassius | The Globe, London |
| 2015 | The Heresy of Love (Helen Edmundson) | Bishop Santa Cruz | The Globe, London |

## Filmography
### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1999 | Wives and Daughters | Roger Hamley | Main cast (miniseries) |
| 2001 | Helen West | Dinsdale Cotton | 2 episodes |
| 2001 | Swallow | Dr. Max Stokes | 3 episodes |
| 2002 | The Other Boleyn Girl | William Carey | TV movie |
| 2002 | Ultimate Force | Cpl. Sam Leonard | 1 episode |
| 2002–2010 | Foyle's War | Paul Milner | Main cast (series 1–6) |
| 2003 | Hawking | Hamlet | TV movie |
| 2010 | Dirk Gently | Gordon Way | 1 episode |
| 2012 | Dungeons & Dragons 3: The Book of Vile Darkness | Ranfin | |
| 2013 | Dracula | Lord Laurent | 3 episodes |
| 2013 | Mr Selfridge | Jean Neuhaus | 1 episode |
| 2013 | Shetland | Peter Latimer | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Crossing Lines | Nigel St.Clair | 1 episode |
| 2015 | You, Me and the Apocalypse | Father Christophe | 3 episodes |
| 2019 | Luther | Palmer | 2 episodes (series 5) |
| 2024 | Fool Me Once (TV series) | Christopher Swain | 2 episodes |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2014 | Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 | Victor | Voice |
| 2014 | Alien: Isolation | Samuels | Voice |
| 2014 | Dragon Age: Inquisition | Gaspard de Chalons | Voice |
| 2015 | Grey Goo | Singleton | Voice |
| 2015 | Soma (video game) | Johan Ross | Voice |
| 2017 | Horizon: Zero Dawn | Behavas / Dervahl | Voice |
| 2018 | Vampyr | Jonathan Reid | Voice |
| 2018 | Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales | Ardal aep Dahy / Eyck of Denesle / Eldain | Voice |
| 2018 | Call of Cthulhu | Edward Pierce | Voice |
| 2018 | World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth | Brother Therold | Voice |
| 2019 | Anthem | The Monitor | Voice |
| 2019 | Observation | S.A.M. | Voice |
| 2019 | Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers | Fourchenault Leveilleur | Voice |
| 2019 | Arknights | Młynar | Voice |
| 2020 | Demon's Souls | Puppeteer / Yurt, the Silent Chief | Voice |
| 2020 | World of Warcraft: Shadowlands | Laurent | Voice |
| 2021 | Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker | Fourchenault Leveilleur | Voice |
| 2022 | Elden Ring | Margit/Morgott | Voice |
| 2023 | Diablo IV | Elias | Voice |
| 2023 | Final Fantasy XVI | Cyril | Voice |
| 2023 | Lies of P | Geppetto | Voice |
| 2024 | Arknights | Mlynar | Voice |

### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2015 | Woman in Gold | Austrian Official | |
| 2019 | Widow's Walk | Cliff | |

## Discography

| Year | Title | Role | Author | Notes |
| 2011 | Doctor Who - The Valley of Death | Edward Perskins | Philip Hinchcliffe | First published October 2011 by Big Finish Productions, part of The Fourth Doctor Box Set |
| 2012 | Doctor Who - The Renaissance Man | Edward | Justin Richards | First published February 2012 by Big Finish Productions |
| 2012 | The Liberator Chronicles Volume 1 | Gustav Nyrron | Simon Guerrier, Nigel Fairs and Peter Anghelides | First published February 2012 by Big Finish Productions |
| 2012 | Great Nature Poems | Narrator | Robert Browning, William Shakespeare, Gerald Manley Hopkins and others | First published 2 April 2012 by Audible |
| 2012 | Doctor Who - The First Sontarans | Jacob | Andrew Smith | First published July 2012 by Big Finish Productions |
| 2012 | The Liberator Chronicles Volume 2 | Gustav Nyrron | Simon Guerrier, Eddie Robson and Nigel Fairs | First published August 2012 by Big Finish Productions |
| 2012 | The Fall | Narrator | Claire McGowan | First published 21 September 2012 by Headline Digital |
| 2013 | Doctor Who - The Lady of Mercia | Professor John Bleak | Paul Magrs | First published May 2013 by Big Finish Productions |
| 2014 | The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 1 | Dr. Keel | John Dorney | First published 31 January 2014 by Big Finish Productions |
| 2014 | The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 2 | Dr. Keel | John Dorney | First published 31 July 2014 by Big Finish Productions |
| 2015 | The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 3 | Dr. Keel | John Dorney | First published 31 January 2015 by Big Finish Productions |
| 2015 | The Liberator Chronicles Volume 11 | Gustav Nyrron | Nigel Fairs, Iain McLaughlin, Andrew Smith | First published March 2015 by Big Finish Productions |
| 2015 | Jago & Litefoot Series 09 | Victor Bataille | Jonathan Morris, Justin Richards, Simon Barnard, Paul Morris | First published April 2015 by Big Finish Productions |
| 2015 | The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 4 | Dr. Keel | John Dorney | First published 31 July 2015 by Big Finish Productions |
| 2015 | The Sixth Doctor - The End of the Line | Tim Hope | Simon Barnard and Paul Morris | First published August 2015 by Big Finish Productions as part of The Sixth Doctor - The Last Adventure |