Anthony Howell (actor)

Anthony Howell
Born	Anthony Matthew Howell 27 July 1971 Lake District, England, UK
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present

Anthony Howell (born 27 June 1971)^[1] is an English actor, best known for his starring role as Sgt. Paul Milner in the British TV series Foyle's War.

Life and career

Howell was born in the Lake District. He trained to be an actor at the Drama Centre in North London.^[2] His acting debut came when he began a world tour with Robert Lepage's stage play The Geometry of Miracles.^[3] He subsequently starred in the BBC four part series Wives and Daughters (1999) before joining the 2000 Royal Shakespeare Company season in Stratford-Upon-Avon, where he took leading roles in the three main plays of that year: Orlando in As You Like It, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Antipholous of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors, playing opposite David Tennant.

After leaving the RSC in 2001 he filmed three TV series; Ultimate Force, Helen West and Foyle's War, where he would spend almost a decade working alongside Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks.

During the months he wasn't filming Foyle's War, he returned to the theatre in the UK. In 2005, Howell starred in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None in London's West End. He played the lead in the first stage adaptation of John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman which toured the UK in 2006.^[4] In 2008, Anthony Howell appeared in the Primavera production of Jingo: A Farce of War by Charles Wood at London's Finborough Theatre,^[5] then toured with the Peter Hall company in an adaptation of Henry James's Portrait of a Lady and Ibsen's A Doll's House.

In 2010, he played Gordon Way in the BBC TV adaptation of Dirk Gently (which was loosely based upon the books by Douglas Adams). Later that year he joined Shakespeare's Globe to perform in Henry VIII, and also in the world premiere of Howard Brenton's Anne Boleyn playing the role of a young Henry VIII opposite Miranda Raison as Anne, roles they both reprised at the Globe in the following year.^[6][7] Two years later he played Trigorin in a new adaptation of Chekhov's "The Seagull" by Evening Standard Award winning writer, Anya Reiss at the Southwark Playhouse.

He also played Jean Neuhaus, a Belgian chocolatier in a Season 2 episode of Mr Selfridge.

Howell filmed Dracula in Budapest,^[8] an NBC Universal series starring Jonathan Rhys Myers. He also voices Victor Belmont in the 2014 video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, as well as providing the motion capture for the protagonist, Dracula. He also provided the voice and motion capture for Weyland-Yutani employee Christopher Samuels in the 2014 survival horror game, Alien: Isolation.

In the summer seasons of 2014 and 2015 he appeared on the stage of the Globe in London, in 2014 as Cassius in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and in 2015 as Bishop Santa Cruz in Helen Edmundson's The Heresy of Love.

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	The Promise, Aleksei Arbuzov	Marat	[9]
1998	The Geometry of Miracles, Robert Lepage	Wes Peters	Ex Machina
2000	Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare	Benvolio	Royal Shakespeare Company
2000	The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare	Antipholus of Ephesus	Royal Shakespeare Company[10]
2002	As You Like It, William Shakespeare	Orlando	Royal Shakespeare Company
2005	The Lifeblood, Glyn Maxwell	Sir Thomas Gorge	Edinburgh Festival,[11] Riverside Studios, London
2005–06	And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie	Lombard	Gielgud Theatre, London
2007	The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles	Charles Wilson	adapted for the stage by Mark Healy, No. 1 Tour
2008	Jingo: A Farce of War, Charles Wood	Ian	Finborough Theatre, London
2008	Portrait of a Lady, Henry James	Ralph	stage play by Nicki Frei,[12] paired with A Doll's House,[13] Theatre Royal, Bath and touring
2008	A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen	Krogstad	paired with Portrait of a Lady, Theatre Royal, Bath and touring
2010	Henry VIII, William Shakespeare	Duke of Buckingham	The Globe, London[14]
2010–11	Anne Boleyn, Howard Brenton	Henry VIII	The Globe, London London
2012	The Seagull, Anton Chekhov	Trigorin	Southwark Playhouse London[15]
2014	Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare	Cassius	The Globe, London[16]
2015	The Heresy of Love, Helen Edmundson	Bishop Santa Cruz	The Globe, London[17]

Filmography

Television^[18]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Wives and Daughters	Roger Hamley	TV mini-series (4 episodes)
2001	Helen West	Dinsdale Cotton	TV series (2 episodes)
2001	Swallow	Dr. Max Stokes	TV series (3 episodes)
2002	The Other Boleyn Girl	William Carey	TV movie
2002	Ultimate Force	Cpl. Sam Leonard	TV series (1 episode)
2002–10	Foyle's War	Paul Milner	TV series (21 episodes)
2003	Hawking	Hamlet	TV movie
2010	Dirk Gently	Gordon Way	TV series (1 episode)
2013	Dracula	Lord Laurent	TV series (3 episodes)
2013	Mr Selfridge	Jean Neuhaus	TV series (1 episode)
2013	Shetland	Peter Latimer	TV series (2 episodes)
2015	Crossing Lines	Nigel St.Clair	TV series (1 episode)

Video Games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2	Victor	Voice
2014	Alien: Isolation	Samuels	Voice
2014	Dragon Age: Inquisition	Gaspard de Chalons	Voice
2015	Grey Goo (video game)	Singleton	Voice

Discography

Year	Title	Role	Author	Notes	Ref.
2011	Doctor Who - The Valley of Death	Edward Perskins	Philip Hinchcliffe	First published October 2011 by Big Finish Productions, part of The Fourth Doctor Box Set	[19]
2012	Doctor Who - The Renaissance Man	Edward	Justin Richards	First published February 2012 by Big Finish Productions	[20]
2012	The Liberator Chronicles Volume 1	Gustav Nyrron	Simon Guerrier, Nigel Fairs and Peter Anghelides	First published February 2012 by Big Finish Productions	[21]
2012	Great Nature Poems	Narrator	Robert Browning, William Shakespeare, Gerald Manley Hopkins and others	First published 2 April 2012 by Audible	[22]
2012	Doctor Who - The First Sontarans	Jacob	Andrew Smith	First published July 2012 by Big Finish Productions	[23]
2012	The Liberator Chronicles Volume 2	Gustav Nyrron	Simon Guerrier, Eddie Robson and Nigel Fairs	First published August 2012 by Big Finish Productions	[24]
2012	The Fall	Narrator	Claire McGowan	First published 21 September 2012 by Headline Digital	[25]
2013	Doctor Who - The Lady of Mercia	Professor John Bleak	Paul Magrs	First published May 2013 by Big Finish Productions	[26]
2014	The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 1	Dr. Keel	John Dorney	First published 31 January 2014 by Big Finish Productions	[27]
2014	The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 2	Dr. Keel	John Dorney	First published 31 July 2014 by Big Finish Productions	[28]
2015	The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 3	Dr. Keel	John Dorney	First published 31 January 2015 by Big Finish Productions	[29]
2015	The Liberator Chronicles Volume 11	Gustav Nyrron	Nigel Fairs, Iain McLaughlin, Andrew Smith	First published March 2015 by Big Finish Productions	[30]
2015	Jago & Litefoot Series 09	Victor Bataille	Jonathan Morris, Justin Richards, Simon Barnard, Paul Morris	First published April 2015 by Big Finish Productions	[31]
2015	The Avengers – The Lost Episodes: Volume 4	Dr. Keel	John Dorney	First published 31 July 2015 by Big Finish Productions	[32]
2015	The Sixth Doctor - The End of the Line	Tim Hope	Simon Barnard and Paul Morris	First published August 2015 by Big Finish Productions as part of The Sixth Doctor - The Last Adventure	[33]

References

1. "Twitter". Retrieved 3 July 2014.
2. "Friends of Drama Centre London". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
3. "Official Site of Ex Machina, Geometry of Miracles". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
4. "BBC, The French Lieutenant's Woman". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
5. "Finbourough Theatre, Jingo". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
6. "Shakespeare's Globe, Anne Boleyn [2010]". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
7. "Shakespeare's Globe, Anne Boleyn [2011]". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
8. "Dracula, Filming Locations". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
9. "The Artists Partnership, Actor Deatails". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
10. "British Universities Film & Video Council". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
11. "Edinburgh Guide, Festival 2005". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
12. "British Theatre Guide, Portrait of a Lady". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
13. "The Portrait of a Lady/A Doll's House". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
14. "Shakespeare's Globe, Henry VIII [2010]". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
15. "Southwark Playhouse, The Seagull". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
16. "Shakespeare's Globe, Julius Caesar [2014]". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
17. "Shakespeare's Globe, The Heresy of Love". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
18. "The Artists Partnership, Actor Deatails". Retrieved 5 July 2014.
19. "The Fourth Doctor Box Set". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
20. "1.02 The Renaissance Man". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
21. "The Liberator Chronicles Volume 1". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
22. "Great Nature Poems Audiobook". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
23. "3.06 The First Sontarans". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
24. "The Liberator Chronicles Volume 2". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
25. "The Fall Audiobook". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
26. "173. The Lady of Mercia". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
27. "The Lost Episodes Volume 1". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
28. "The Lost Episodes Volume 2". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
29. "The Lost Episodes Volume 3". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
30. "The Liberator Chronicles Volume 11". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
31. "Jago & Litefoot Series 09". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
32. "The Lost Episodes Volume 4". Retrieved 23 August 2015.
33. "The Sixth Doctor - The Last Adventure". Retrieved 23 August 2015.

Sources and external links

• Anthony Howell at the Internet Movie Database
• Anthony Howell in "Foyle's War"