Richard Cant

For the National:

Training

Richard Cant trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Normal Heart, Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear and War Horse (also West End)

In London’s West End: Orlando and The Canterbury Tales

Other theatre includes: Henry VI: Wars of the Roses, Henry VI: Rebellion, Maydays, Cymbeline, Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing at the RSC; Twelfth Night at Regent’s Park; What It Means at Wilton’s Music Hall; The Vortex at Chichester; Handbagged, Wife and Pins and Needles at Kiln; After Edward and Edward II at Shakespeare’s Globe; Stella for LIFT; Saint Joan and My Night with Reg (also in the West End) at the Donmar; Medea at the Almeida; The Trial at the Young Vic; Salome for Headlong; Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline and As You Like It for Cheek by Jowl; Chariots of Fire, Talent, Original Sin and The Country Wife at Sheffield Crucible; and Other People at the Royal Court

The Crown, It’s a Sin, Silent Witness, Taboo, Outlander, Mapp and Lucia, Vexed, Above Suspicion, Doctors, The Bill, Doctor Who, lan Fleming: Bond Maker, Midsomer Murders, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot, Shackleton, The Way We Live Now, Gimme Gimme Gimme and This Life

Film

My Policeman, Stan and Ollie, Mary Queen of Scots, Sparkle and The Lawless Heart

Radio and voice work

Bleak House, Ehrengard, Spirit Rangers, Road to Heaven and video games, Assassin’s Creed and 007 Legends

(Published November 2024. Photo: Ruth Crafer)