Richard Armitage

Acting · Born 1971-08-22 in Leicester, England, UK

Biography

Richard Armitage was born and raised in Leicester, England. He attended Pattison College in Binley Road, Coventry, and studied at LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art). His first appearance on the screen was in a small role in This Year's Love (1999), but it was Sparkhouse (2002) (TV) that gave him a break-through role as the charming but a bit odd character of John Standring opposite Sarah Smart. After two guest-roles in "Cold Feet" (1997) in 2003 and "Between the Sheets" (2003), he landed a role as Steven in Frozen (2005/I), which eventually led him to play the lead role in the big hit BBC drama "North & South" (2004). Other than appearing on screen, he has also appeared on stage--in, for example, Macbeth and Hamlet.

Filmography

• Captain America: The First Avenger as Heinz Kruger
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as Thorin Oakenshield
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as Thorin Oakenshield
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as Thorin Oakenshield
• Brain on Fire as Tom Cahalan
• Ocean's Eight as Claude Becker
• Space Sweepers as James Sullivan / The CEO of UTS
• Miss Marie Lloyd: Queen of the Music Hall as Percy Courtenay
• The Boy in the Woods as Jasko
• Frozen as Steven

TV

• Spooks as Lucas North
• North & South as John Thornton
• Hannibal as Francis Dolarhyde
• Castlevania as Trevor Belmont (voice)
• Spooks as Armed Police Officer
• This Morning as Self
• Ultimate Force
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries as Philip Turner
• Lost Land of the Tiger as Self - Narrator
• Between The Sheets as Paul Andrews