# Richard Harrington (actor)

Richard Harrington (born 12 March 1975) is a Welsh actor.

## Early and personal life

Harrington was born in Gurnos and brought up in Heolgerrig, Merthyr Tydfil. Harrington speaks Welsh as a second language; he came from an English-speaking family but studied in a Welsh Medium school in Merthyr. He has said that filming Y Gwyll improved his fluency significantly.
Harrington has two children with a former girlfriend and two with his partner Hannah Daniel, with whom he lives in Crystal Palace, London.
Harrington took part in the 2012 and 2013 Snowdonia Marathon alongside his friend and fellow actor Mark Lewis Jones. They both ran Marathon des Sables in 2014.

## Career

Harrington has had starring roles in the Welsh show Hinterland (known as Y Gwyll in Welsh), Bleak House, Jimmy McGovern's Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, and Gavin Claxton's comedy feature film The All Together. He has also had roles in Coronation Street, Spooks, Casualty, Holby City, Hustle, Dalziel and Pascoe, Silent Witness, Lark Rise to Candleford, and Poldark. He won a BAFTA Cymru Award for his portrayal of a young gay hustler in the BBC film Dafydd, part of the Wales Playhouse programme.
On stage, Harrington has toured with Fiction Factory/Y Cwmni's productions of Ed Thomas's plays House of America, Gas Station Angel and Stone City Blue. He also appeared in the 1997 film version of House of America.
In 2015, Harrington won another BAFTA Cymru Award for his role as DCI Tom Matthias in Y Gwyll / Hinterland.
In April 2017, Harrington presented the BBC Two Wales programme Richard Harrington: My Grandfather's War, in which he followed the journey his grandfather had made through Spain in 1937 in order to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
In 2018 he appeared at the National Theatre in London in Home I'm Darling, a co-production with Theatr Clwyd.
In February 2021, speaking of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Harrington revealed that he had worked as a Deliveroo driver to supplement his income during lockdown, due to the lack of work.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1987 | The District Nurse | Donald Turner | TV series (1 episode: "A Blind Eye") |
| 1989 | Screen One | | TV series (Series 1: episode 2: "Nineteen 96") |
| 1992 | Civvies | Taffy's neighbour | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1993 | Gadael Lenin (Leaving Lenin) | Charlie | |
| 1993, 1995 | Wales Playhouse | Sion / Dafydd | TV series (2 episodes: "Broken Glass" & "Dafydd") BAFTA Cymru Award - Best Actor (Yr Actor Gorau) |
| 1995 | Oliver's Travels | Student | TV mini-series |
| 1995-1997 | A Mind to Kill | Paul Tam | TV series (3 episodes) |
| 1996 | The Proposition | Evan | |
| 1996 | Pobol y Cwm | Ossie | |
| 1997 | House of America | Cat | |
| 1997 | Tiger Bay | Warwick | TV series (3 episodes) |
| 1997 | Breeders | Jack | |
| 1997 | Motor Driving Made Easy | Reflex Action | Short |
| 1998 | A Light in the Valley | Cast member | |
| 1999 | Oh Little Town of Bethlehem | Martin | Short |
| 1999 | Coronation Street | Owen Williams | TV series (4 episodes) |
| 2000 | Care | Tony Collins | TV film |
| 2001 | Score | Neil | TV film |
| 2001 | A Day Out | Girl's Father | Short |
| 2002 | High Speed | Spike | |
| 2002 | The Hidden City | Barney | TV series |
| 2002 | Mule | Ray | Short |
| 2003 | Rehab | Powell | TV film |
| 2003 | Holby City | Lee Walmsley | TV series (1 episode: "By Any Other Name") |
| 2003 | The Ride | Spike | |
| 2004 | Secret Passage | Joseph | |
| 2004 | Mathilde | Babyface | |
| 2004 | Gunpowder, Treason & Plot | Thomas Percy | TV film |
| 2004 | Hustle | Sam Richards | TV series (1 episode: "Cops and Robbers") |
| 2004 | Silent Witness | Stephen Barnes | TV series (2 episodes: "Nowhere Fast: Parts 1 & 2") |
| 2004 | Spooks | Will North | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 2005 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Gary Mileham | TV series Series 9: episode 33: "Heads You Lose: Parts 1 & 2") |
| 2005 | Fatigue | | |
| 2005 | Bleak House | Allan Woodcourt | TV mini-series (7 episodes) |
| 2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Yohanon | TV series (1 episode: "Rebellion") |
| 2006 | Daddy's Girl | Stephen | |
| 2006 | Casualty | Jerry Goater | TV series (1 episode: "Last Orders") |
| 2007 | Five Days | Daf Parry | TV series (3 episodes) |
| 2007 | The All Together | Jerry Davies | |
| 2007 | The Contractor | Terry Winchell | Video |
| 2007 | Y Pris | Stuart | TV series (1 episode: "Parch (Respect)") |
| 2007 | Sold | Paul Bamforth | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2007–2008 | HolbyBlue | DS Luke French | TV series (20 episodes) |
| 2008 | Strap-on Owl Beak | Actor | Short |
| 2008 | Hope Eternal | Evan | |
| 2008 | New Tricks | Ash | TV series (1 episode: "Communal Living") |
| 2009 | Missing | Ryan Long | TV series (1 episode: "Deeper Problems") |
| 2009 | Land Girls | Adam Blackfield | TV series (2 episodes: "Trekkers" & "Destinies") |
| 2009 | Collision | James Taylor / Ben Hickman | TV mini-series (3 episodes) |
| 2010 | M.I. High | Tommy Blumenheck | TV series (1 episode: "Don't Cook Now") |
| 2010 | Midsomer Murders | Leo Fincher | TV series (1 episode: "Blood on the Saddle") |
| 2010 | Pen Talar | Defi Lewis | TV series (7 episodes) |
| 2011 | Lark Rise to Candleford | Gabriel Cochrane | TV series (Series 4: 6 episodes) |
| 2011 | Little Munchkin | Mr. Jones | Short |
| 2011 | Burton: Y Gyfrinach | Richard Burton | TV film |
| 2011 | My Times | | Short |
| 2012 | Casualty | Chris Johnson | TV series (2 episodes: "Duty of Care" & "Death and Doughnuts") |
| 2012 | Elfie Hopkins | Timothy Jenkins | |
| 2012 | Alys | Simon | TV series (8 episodes) |
| 2013–2016 | Y Gwyll / Hinterland | DCI Tom Mathias | TV series - lead role |
| 2014 | Under Milk Wood | Neighbour | TV film |
| 2014 | Wolfblood | Gerwyn | TV series (4 episodes) |
| 2015 | Just Jim | Headmaster | |
| 2015–2016 | Poldark | Captain Andrew Blamey | TV series (5 episodes) |
| 2016 | Royal Wives at War | Narrator | TV film |
| 2016 | Stella | Ian Meyer | TV series |
| 2016 | My Grandfather's War | Himself | BBC TV documentary about the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War |
| 2017 | Inspector George Gently | Michael Clements | TV series (1 episode: "Gently and the New Age") |
| 2018 | Requiem | Aron Morgan | TV mini-series (6 episodes) |
| 2018 | Father Brown | Benedict Northam | TV series (1 episode: "The Face of the Enemy") |
| 2018 | Death in Paradise | Bryn Williams | TV series (1 episode: "Meditated in Murder") |
| 2018 | Hatchback | John | Short |
| 2018 | On the Edge | DI Nolan | TV mini-series (1 episode: "A Mother's Love") |
| 2018 | Gwen | Edward Morris | |
| 2018 | Last Summer | Dai Hop | |
| 2019 | The Crown | Fred Phillips | TV series (Season 3: episode 3: "Aberfan") |
| 2019 | Bitter Sky | Roy | Short |
| 2020 | Gangs of London | Mal | TV series (4 episodes) |
| 2020 | Endeavour | Dr. Dai Ferman | TV series (2 episodes: "Oracle" & "Zenana") |
| 2021 | Fflam | Bedwyr Neale | S4C series; 6 episodes |
| 2022 | Fisherman's Friends: One and All | Morgan Jenkins | |
| 2023 | Consent | Headmaster | Channel Four |
| 2025 | The One That Got Away | DS Rick Sheldon | |
Theatre
* House of America – Fiction Factory
* Gas Station Angel – Royal Court
* Stone City Blue – Theatre Clwyd
* Art and Guff – Soho Theatre
* Other Hands – Soho Theatre
* Look Back in Anger – Theatre Royal, Bath
* Coriolanus – NTW
* Home I'm Darling – National Theatre