Richard Harrington — Movies, TV Shows & Roles

Actor

1975-03-12 · Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, UK · Male

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Richard Harrington is a Welsh stage and TV actor. He has had starring roles in the shows Hinterland, Bleak House, Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, and the film The All Together. He won a BAFTA Cymru Award for his role in the film Dafydd and another for his role in Hinterland.
Early life and education
Richard Harrington was born in Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, and grew up in Dowlais.
He studied at a Welsh Medium school in Merthyr and as a result, speaks Welsh as a second language.
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.
In 2026 he was cast as the voice of Grand Moff Tarkin in the Welsh dub of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.
Personal life
Harrington has two children with a former girlfriend and two with his current girlfriend, Hannah Daniel, with whom he lives in Crystal Palace, London.
In 2012 and 2013, he took part in the Snowdonia Marathon alongside his friend and fellow actor Mark Lewis Jones. They both ran Marathon des Sables in 2014.
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
The Unseen - Riverside Studios
House Of Games - Hampstead Theatre
BBC Bleak House profile
Richard Harrington at the British Film Institute