Mark Hadfield
David Haig
Peter Hall
Victoria Hamilton
Hamlet
Christopher Hampton
Phyllida Hancock
Terry Hands
The Hang of the Gaol
Hansel and Gretal
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Happy End
Amanda Harris
Brian Harris
Zinnie Harris
Howard Harrison
Lisa Harrow
Moss Hart
Ann Hasson
Michael Hastings
Linzi Hateley
Have
Václav Havel
Nigel Hawthorne
James Hayes
Hecuba
Hedda Gabler
Hello and Goodbye
Mark Henderson
Guy Henry
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI
Henry VIII
Nicky Henson
The Herbal Bed
Vince Herbert
Heresies
David Hersey
Hess is Dead
Greg Hicks
Anastasia Hille
Louis Hilyer
Hippolytus
Rolf Hochhüth
Ian Hogg
The Hollow Crown
Ian Holm
Clare Holman
Robert Holman
Sean Holmes
The Homecoming
John Hopkins
Michael Hordern
The Hostage
House of Desires
William Houston
Alan Howard
Rob Howell
Richard Hudson
Ian Hughes
Ted Hughes
Maureen Hunter
Geoffrey Hutchings
Lloyd Hutchinson
Ron Hutchinson
Jonathan Hyde
Hyde Park
Nicholas Hytner
Mark Hadfield made his name on the London stage playing Linus in Snoopy (Kay Cole, Duchess, 1983); a soulful Stan Laurel in Blockheads (Cole, Mermaid, 1984); Benny South-street in Guys and Dolls (Richard Eyre, NT Prince of Wales, 1985); and both Mercutio and Friar Lawrence in his friend Kenneth Branagh's production of Romeo and Juliet (Lyric Hammersmith Studio, 1986).
He has been a member of the RSC since 1987, when he played Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (Nick Hamm) and Osric/Reynaldo in Hamlet (Roger Michell, Small-scale Tour). An admired actor of all-round ability, he has moved between comedic and dramatic roles: Novel in The Plain Dealer (Ron Daniels, Swan, 1988, Pit, 1989); Young Talbot/Young Clifford/Simpcox/Lovel in The Plantagenets (Adrian Noble, RST, 1988, Barbican, 1989); Sanchez in Nick Darke's Kissing the Pope (Michell, Almeida, 1989); Autolycus, succeeding Richard McCabe, in The Winter's Tale (Noble, US Tour, 1994); Lantern Leatherhead in Bartholomew Fair (Laurence Boswell, Swan, 1997, Young Vic, 1999); Launce in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Edward Hall, Swan, 1998, Pit, 1998-99); Bernard in Talk of the City (Stephen Poliakoff, Swan, 1998, Young Vic, 1999); Medvedenko in The Seagull (Noble, Swan, UK Tour and Barbican, 2000); Feste, played brilliantly as a sad clown in a Buster Keaton hat, in Twelfth Night (Lindsay Posner, RST, 2001, Barbican, 2001-02); Ackers Brother in Peter Barnes's Jubilee (Gregory Doran, Swan, 2001); Verino in Lope de Vega's Madness in Valencia (Jonathan Munby, TOP, 2001); and Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales (Doran/Munby/Rebecca Gatward, Swan, 2005-06, Small-scale Tour, 2006).
His theatre work elsewhere includes: Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew (Mark Brickman, Sheffield Crucible, 1990); Little Monk in Becket (Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1991); Dancing Master in Le bourgeois gentilhomme (Richard Jones, NT Lyttelton, 1992); Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Robert Lepage, NT Olivier, 1992); Young Covey in The Plough and the Stars (Matthew Warchus, West Yorkshire Playhouse, 1993); Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing (Warchus, Queen's Theatre, 1993); La Flèche in The Miser (Nicholas Broadhurst, Chichester, 1995); Smee in Peter Pan (Warchus, West Yorkshire Playhouse, 1996); Davies in Daniel Hill's Gulf War play Cracked (Terry Johnson, Hampstead, 1997); Rob Stein in Twilight of the Golds (Arts Theatre, 1997); Timon in The Lion King (Julie Taymor, Lyceum, 2003-04); Sganarelle in Molière's Don Juan (Thea Sharrock) and Henry Straker, the chauffeur, in Shaw's Man and Superman (Peter Hall, Theatre Royal, Bath, 2004); Lee Hall's monologues Two's Company and Child of the Snow (Simon Reade, Bristol Old Vic Studio, 2005); and Matt Charman's A Night at the Dogs (Abigail Morris, Soho Theatre, 2005).
On television he has appeared in Butterflies (BBC), Van der Valk (ITV), The Buddha of Suburbia (Roger Michell, BBC, 1993), Cracker (ITV, 1996), Crocodile Shoes II (BBC, 1996), People Like Us (BBC, 1999), The Wyvern Mystery (BBC, 2000), Headless (Channel Five, 2000), and Holby City (BBC, 2001). His films are Just Like a Woman (1992); Stephen Poliakoff's Century (1993); Branagh's Frankenstein (1994) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995); and Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan, 1999).
Education: RADA
RSC: Joined 1987
Seasons: 1987 (Small-scale Tour); 1988 (Strat.)-89 (Lond.); 1994 (US Tour); 1997/98 (Strat.)-98/99 (Lond.); 1999/00 (Strat.)-00 (Lond.); 2001 (Strat.)-01/02 (Lond.); 2005/06 (Strat.)-06 (Small-scale Tour)
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