Andrew Havill

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Andrew Havill (born 1 June 1965) is a British actor.

Life and career[]

Havill has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was in The Woman in Black in London's West End in 1996. In the 2000s, his theatre roles included working with Alan Ayckbourn on his play Virtual Reality; a West End production of Jean Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon; and key roles in director Chris Luscombe's productions of The Comedy of Errors and The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare's Globe.

Of the latter, the Guardian's Lyn Gardner wrote: "Havill's comic timing is a joy" (21 June 2008).^[1] Havill also appeared as Frank Ford in the US tour of the same play in 2010. Ben Brantley commented in The New York Times (31 Oct 2010), "As Ford... the excellent Mr. Havill is exactly as serious as he needs to be, reminding us that one of comedy’s main functions is to defuse bombs that in real life often explode and destroy.".^[2]

In 2012 and 2013 he was part of the original cast of James Graham's critically acclaimed play This House, at the National Theatre, directed by Jeremy Herrin. Other work has included three roles at Hampstead Theatre in the plays , Drawing the Line, and .

Havill's TV credits include Aristocrats, Wives and Daughters and The Impressionists, and docudramas including Elizabeth David, Daphne, The Tudors and . He played the Chief Steward in the Christmas Doctor Who episode Voyage of the Damned and was in the BBC drama Spooks Series 8, as well as in Midsomer Murders (The Night of the Stag), Sherlock (A Scandal in Belgravia), Father Brown and " ".

Havill's film work has included roles in Sylvia, The Heart of Me, The King's Speech, The Awakening, The Iron Lady, The Broken, Hyde Park on Hudson, Cloud Atlas, The Imitation Game and Downton Abbey (film).

Filmography[]

Film[]

Television[]

Theatre[]

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company) as Lysander
• A Woman of No Importance (Royal Shakespeare Company) as Gerald Arbuthnot
• The Importance of Being Earnest (Oxford Stage Company, 2003) as Jack
• Candida (Oxford Stage Company, 2004) as Rev James Morell
• Arsenic and Old Lace (independent tour, 2005) as Mortimer
• The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare's Globe, 2006) as Antipholus of Syracuse
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare's Globe, 2008) as Frank Ford
• Noises Off (Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 2010) as Garry Lejeune
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (US Tour, 2010) as Frank Ford
• (Hampstead Theatre, 2012) as George
• This House (National Theatre, 2012–2013)
• Drawing the Line (Hampstead Theatre, 2013)
• (Hampstead Theatre, 2014)
• Waste (National Theatre, 2015/16)
• Shadowlands (Chichester Festival Theatre, 2019)

References[]

External links[]

• Andrew Havill at IMDb
• Andrew Havill official website