Andrew Havill
Professional Actor, Theatre, Television and film.

Andrew Havill has been a professional actor for twenty years. As a schoolboy he was a member of the National Youth Theatre and he was spotted there by two directors from the Royal Shakespeare Company who offered him work there. He stayed for four years, appearing in ten productions including Mark Rylance's Hamlet and Phil Daniels' A Clockwork Orange (with music by U2 and choreogrphy by Arlene Philips!). His last play with them was Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance which played in the West End for five months. Three years later he was back in the West End in The Woman in Black, directed by Robin Herford, and he returned there in 2003 in the satirical comedy The Madness of George Dubya and again in 2008 in Ring Round the Moon. In between he worked extensively in regional theatre, toured China with Twelfth Night, USA with Comus by John Milton, and played the lead in a new Alan Ayckbourn play Virtual Reality directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn himself. Two years ago he played Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare's Globe on the South Bank and has returned there this year to play Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

He has appeared in twelve films including Sylvia with Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, The Heart of Me with Helena Bonham-Carter, Nicholas Nickleby with Anne Hathaway and Romola Garai, and the forthcoming horror film The Broken with Lena Headey, and over forty TV shows. These have ranged from costume dramas (Dance to the Music of Time, Wives and Daughters, Aristocrats) to sit-com (Harry Enfield, The Peter Principle, Goodnight Sweetheart), from long running series (Silent Witness, Judge John Deed, Holby City, Waking the Dead) to one-offs such as The Impressionists in which he played the painter Manet. None more exciting though than his recent appearance on Dr. Who when he found himself spending three weeks with Kylie Minogue!