Richard Armitage
Highest Rated: 96% No End in Sight (2007)
Lowest Rated: 13% Brain on Fire (2018)
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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Filmography

MOVIES

RATING TITLE CREDIT BOX OFFICE YEAR
No Score Yet The Lodge
  • Actor
— 2019
13% Brain on Fire
  • Tom Cahalan
— 2018
69% Ocean's 8
  • Claude Becker
— 2018
No Score Yet Sleepwalker
  • Dr. Scott White
— 2017
68% Pilgrimage
  • Raymond De Merville
— 2017
30% Alice Through the Looking Glass
  • King Oleron
$77.1M 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
22% Into The Storm
  • Gary
$40.7M 2014
74% The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
  • Thorin Oakenshield
$180.5M 2013
65% The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Thorin
$303.1M 2012
80% 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
No Score Yet Berlin Station
2016
  • Daniel Meyer Daniel Miller
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
90% Castlevania
2017
  • Voice
  • 2018
  • 2017
92% 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
  • 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
2009-2018
  • John Mulligan
No Score Yet North & South
2004
  • John Thornton

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