Hugh Bonneville Movies and Career Information

Hugh Bonneville (born 10 November 1963), born Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams, is an English stage, film, television and radio actor. Bonneville was born in London, and educated at Sherborne School, an independent school in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset in south west England, followed by Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge, where he read Theology, and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where he trained for the stage. Hugh is also an alumni of The National Youth Theatre. He is also fluent in French. Bonneville's first professional stage appearance was at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. In 1987 he joined the National Theatre where he appeared in several plays, then the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1991, where he played Laertes to Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1992 — 1993). He was also Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Bergetto in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Kastril and later Surly in The Alchemist. He made his television debut in 1991, billed as Richard Bonneville. His early roles were usually good-natured bumbling characters like Bernie in Notting Hill (1999) and Mr. Rushworth in Mansfield Park (1999). In the BBC television