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 Hugh Bonneville
Hugh's a regular face in period and historic drama, with credits ranging from Daniel Deronda to Tipping The Velvet. He won acclaim for his portrayal of poet Philip Larkin in 2003's Love Again, and in 2007 played DCI Iain Barclay in crime thriller Five Days.
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As well as Daniel Deronda and Tipping The Velvet, Hugh's other television credits include Take a Girl Like You, The Cazalets (with Tipping the Velvet co-star Anna Chancellor), Doctor Zhivago, and The Gathering Storm, opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Albert Finney.
He played the Prince Regent in 2006's Beau Brummell, with James Purefoy in the title role. In the same year he appeared in Tsunami: The Aftermath.
Hugh provided the voice of the adult Ben in 2005's The Rotters' Club.
Hugh started his on-screen acting career in the early 1990s with roles in Kenneth Brannagh's film version of Frankenstein and TV dramas The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes, Cadfael (with Sir Derek Jacobi) and Between The Lines.
In 1997, a role in Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies heralded a future in the movies. Subsequent movie credits include Iris opposite Kate Winslet (whom he described as 'a force of nature') and Jim Broadbent, Notting Hill with Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts, High Heels and Low Lives with Minnie Driver and Mansfield Park with Frances O'Connor.
Hugh also starred with Frances O'Connor in the passionate and tragic Madame Bovary.
Hugh's also an accomplished stage actor, notably appearing in Habeas Corpus at the Donmar Warehouse, directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty).
Hugh starred in the sitcom The Robinsons opposite Martin Freeman - best known for his role as Tim in The Office.
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Hugh has, on occasion, been credited as 'Richard Bonneville'.
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Hugh was born in November 1963, in London.
His wife's an artist.
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