Richard Armitage

Highest Rated: 96% No End in Sight (2007)

Lowest Rated: 17% Brain on Fire (2016)

Birthday: Aug 22, 1971

Birthplace: Leicestershire, England

Was signed up for Tap Dancing classes at the age of four, to correct his pigeon toes. In order to obtain his Equity Card, he joined a circus in Budapest at the age of 17. Enrolled in drama school at 22 where he completed the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art's (LAMDA) three year program. Got his firstexperience ofacting in a feature film witha one-line role in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999). In 2009, he beat international stars Johnny Depp and Daniel Craig to be the winner of the Romantic Novelists' Sexiest Thing on Two Legs award. Agreed to beundergo theexperience of water torture for a scene in the seventh season of Spooks (2002) where his character undergoes waterboarding - a practice banned in the UK.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
67%	Ocean's 8	Claude Becker	—	2018
67%	Pilgrimage	Raymond De Merville	—	2017
No Score Yet	Sleepwalker	Dr. Scott White	—	2017
29%	Alice Through the Looking Glass	King Oleron	$77.1M	2016
17%	Brain on Fire	Tom Cahalan	—	2016
No Score Yet	The Hobbit Trilogy	Thorin	—	2015
59%	The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies	Thorin Oakenshield	$187.8M	2014
95%	Last Days in Vietnam	Actor	$0.5M	2014
21%	Into The Storm	Gary	$40.7M	2014
75%	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	Thorin Oakenshield	$180.5M	2013
65%	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	Thorin	$303.1M	2012
79%	Captain America: The First Avenger	Heinz Kruger	$176.7M	2011
No Score Yet	Charlie	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	Miss Marie Lloyd	Actor	—	2007
96%	No End in Sight	Actor	$1.3M	2007
No Score Yet	Shakespeare Retold	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Impressionists	Claude Monet (younger)	—	2006
No Score Yet	Frozen	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Ordeal by Innocence	Actor	—	1987

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
86%	Castlevania 2017	Voice	2017
No Score Yet	Berlin Station 2016	Daniel Meyer Daniel Miller	2017 2016
89%	Hannibal 2013-2015	Francis Dolarhyde	2015
No Score Yet	The View 1997	Guest	2014
No Score Yet	Inspector George Gently 2008-2017	Ricky Deeming	2012 2011
No Score Yet	Strike Back 2011	John Porter	2012 2011
No Score Yet	MI-5 2003-2011	Lucas North	2011 2010
No Score Yet	Robin Hood 2006-2009	Guy of Gisborne Sir Guy of Gisborne	2009 2008 2007
No Score Yet	Mystery! 1980-2007	Philip Turner Philip Durrant William Chatford	2007 2006 2005
No Score Yet	POV 1988	Appearing	2006
No Score Yet	Moving On 2009	John Mulligan
No Score Yet	North & South 2004	John Thornton

Quotes from Richard Armitage's Characters

Thorin Oakenshield:	If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place
Thorin Oakenshield:	If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.

Thorin Oakenshield:	I am sorry that I made you a part of my perils...
Bilbo Baggins:	No! I am glad to have shared in your perils - that is more than any Baggins deserves!

Bilbo Baggins:	You've won the mountain, is that not enough?
Thorin Oakenshield:	Now...we defend it.

Gary:	Why didn't he just tell me?
Trey:	I don't know Dad. You're so easy to talk to.

Thorin Oakenshield:

Will you follow me one last time.

Gary:	Why didn't he just tell me?
Trey:	I don't know Dad. You're so easy to talk to.

Thorin Oakenshield:

I would have war.

Bard the Bowman:	Will you have peace, or war?
Thorin Oakenshield:	I will have war!

Thorin Oakenshield:

You have keen eyes, master Baggins.

Balin:	Well, that bargain was our only hope.
Thorin Oakenshield:	Not our only hope...

Thorin Oakenshield:

We're being watched!

Thorin Oakenshield:	"If this is to end in fire, then we will all burn together."
Thorin Oakenshield:	If this is to end in fire, then we will all burn together.

Bard the Bowman:	You have no right to enter that mountain!
Thorin Oakenshield:	I have the only right!

Thorin Oakenshield:	I'm sorry I doubted you
Bilbo Baggins:	No, I would have doubted me too

Thorin:

Loyalty, honor, a willing heart, I can ask for no more than that.

Thorin:	Where did you go, if I may ask?
Gandalf:	To look ahead.
Thorin:	and what brought you back?
Gandalf:	Looking behind.

Elrond:	So this is your purpose; to enter the mountain.
Thorin Oakenshield:	What of it?
Elrond:	There are some who would not deem it wise.

Elrond:	"So that is your purpose? To enter the Mountain?
Elrond:	So that is your purpose? To enter the Mountain?
Thorin Oakenshield:	"What of it?"
Thorin Oakenshield:	What of it?
Elrond:	"There are some who would not deem it wise.."
Elrond:	There are some who would not deem it wise..

Thorin Oakenshield:

Have you done much fighting?

Thorin Oakenshield:

We will seize this chance to TAKE BACK EREBOR!

Thorin Oakenshield:

Loyalty, honor, and a willing heart. I can ask no more than that.

Thorin Oakenshield:	So this is the hobbit ..
Thorin Oakenshield:	So this is the hobbit .
Gandalf:	You asked me to find the 14 member of the company and have elected Mr. Baggins.
Bilbo Baggins:	Me? no, no, no ...
Bilbo Baggins:	Me? No, no, no...

Thorin Oakenshield:	I can not guarantee his safety.
Gandalf:	Understood.
Thorin Oakenshield:	Nor will I be responsible for his fate.

Thorin Oakenshield:	"I can not guarantee his safety."
Thorin Oakenshield:	I can not guarantee his safety.
Gandalf:	"Understood."
Gandalf:	Understood.
Thorin Oakenshield:	"Nor will I be responsible for his fate."
Thorin Oakenshield:	Nor will I be responsible for his fate.