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His real name is Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams; he used the stage name Richard Bonneville until the mid-1990s. At Cambridge, where his contemporaries included Sam Mendes, Christopher Luscombe, Steve Punt and Nick Hancock, he played Romeo and co-wrote the Footlights show Tropical Heatwave (1985). His professional career began at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. Within a year he was working at the National: School for Wives (Di Trevis, Lyttelton, 1987); Yerma (Trevis, Cottesloe, 1987); David Edgar's Entertaining Strangers (Peter Hall, Cottesloe, 1987); Juno and the Paycock (Peter Gill, Lyttelton, 1989); The School for Scandal (Peter Wood, Olivier, 1990); and Peter Pears in Paul Godfrey's Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens (Godfrey, Cottesloe, 1990). At the Leicester Haymarket in 1988 he appeared in Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears (Simon Usher). He joined the RSC in 1991, a tall, physically commanding actor with a boyish face. His work ranged from the gleefully dim, riotously funny, Sir Samuel Hearty in The Virtuoso (Phyllida Lloyd, Swan, 1991, Pit, 1992) to Laertes in the Kenneth Branagh Hamlet (Adrian Noble, Barbican, 1992, RST, 1993). Memorably, he played Laertes as a dignified, grief-stricken everyman in a brown suit. In-between he was cast as Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (David Thacker, Swan, Barbican), Bergetto in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (David Leveaux, Swan, Pit), Kastril in The Alchemist (Sam Mendes, Swan), Brian Taylor in Billy Roche's Amphibians (Michael Attenborough, Pit) and Surly in The Alchemist (Mendes, Barbican). Since leaving the RSC he has played Tony in Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing (Hettie MacDonald, Donmar Warehouse and Tour, 1994); Dick Dudgeon in The Devil's Disciple (Christopher Morahan, NT Olivier, 1994); Throbbing in Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus (Sam Mendes, Donmar Warehouse, 1996); Martin in Tamsin Oglesby's Us and Them (Jennie Darnell, Hampstead Theatre, 2003); and Jan in Maria Goos's Cloaca (Kevin Spacey, Old Vic, 2004). He has concentrated on screen work, progressing from bit parts in Branagh's Frankenstein (1994) and the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) to highly accomplished, distinctive and varied character work in major television dramas—Mosley (1998); the hapless husband in Madame Bovary (Tim Fywell, BBC, 2000); Julian Ormerod in Take a Girl Like You (BBC, 2000); finding complexity in the Victorian villain of Daniel Deronda (BBC, 2002); Philip Larkin in Love Again (BBC, 2003); the Prince Regent in Beau Brummell (BBC, 2006); Tsunami: the Aftermath (BBC, 2006); the compassionate detective in Five Days (BBC, 2007); the majestically dull Pooter in Diary of a Nobody (BBC, 2007)—and films of varying quality—Notting Hill (Roger Michell, 1999); Blow Dry (2001); John Bayley opposite Kate Winslet in Iris (Richard Eyre, 2001); Samuel Pepys in Stage Beauty (Eyre, 2004); Asylum (David Mackenzie, 2005); Man to Man (Régis Wargnier, 2005); Scenes of a Sexual Nature (Ed Blum, 2006). Other credits: David Nobb's Stalag Luft (ITV, 1993); Married for Life (ITV, 1996); Breakout (BBC, 1997); Get Well Soon (BBC, 1997); the situation comedy Holding the Baby (ITV, 1998); The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (ITV, 1997); The Scold's Bridle (David Thacker, BBC, 1998); Heat of the Sun (ITV, 1998); Mr Rushworth in Mansfield Park (1999); Tipping the Velvet (BBC, 2002); Doctor Zhivago (ITV, 2002); Piccadilly Jim (2004); The Robinsons (BBC, 2005). In 1994, as Hugh Williams, he produced the West End transfer of Beautiful Thing (Duke of York's) and co-wrote and directed Christopher Luscombe's one-man show Half-Time (Donmar, previously seen during the 1992 RSC fringe festival in Stratford, and originally conceived for the Footlights).	(Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams) Actor, b. London, 1963 Education: Sherborne School; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Webber-Douglas RSC: Joined 1991 Seasons: 1991 (Strat.)-92/93 (Lond./Strat.) Productions (as director): Half-Time, co-devised with Christopher Luscombe (RSC fringe production, Buzz Goodbody Studio, 1992/New Grove Theatre, 1992/Swan, 1997)
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