Richard Madden

Scottish television, film, stage and voice actor

Not to be confused with Richard Robert Madden.

Richard Madden
Madden at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	(1986-06-18) 18 June 1986 (age 32) Elderslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Residence	London, England
Nationality	Scottish
Alma mater	Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present

Richard Madden (born 18 June 1986) is a Scottish actor. Born and raised near Glasgow, in Renfrewshire, he made his screen debut as a child actor and stage debut whilst a student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 2007, he toured with Shakespeare's Globe company as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, a role he would reprise in the West End in 2016.

Madden's breakthrough role came in 2011, as Robb Stark in HBO's fantasy drama Game of Thrones, for which he received the Screen International Award for Star of Tomorrow and two SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series nominations, amongst other accolades. His subsequent roles include leading the first season of the historical fiction series Medici: Masters of Florence (2016) as Cosimo de' Medici, and starring in the films of Disney's Cinderella (2015) and Netflix's romantic comedy Ibiza (2018).

In 2018, Madden gained critical acclaim and wider recognition for his leading role as David Budd in the BBC thriller series Bodyguard, the UK's most-watched television drama since current records began,^[1] for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama^[2] and the National Television Award for Drama Performance,^[3] and was also nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series.^[4]Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019.^[5]

Madden is set to portray music manager John Reid in Elton John's upcoming biopic Rocketman.

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  2 Career
  


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  3 Recognition
  


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  4 Personal life
  


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  5 Filmography
  
  
  
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  6 References
  


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Early life

Madden was born on 18 June 1986^[6] in Elderslie, Renfrewshire, just outside the town of Paisley and the city of Glasgow, where he was brought up, with older and younger sisters. His mother, Pat, is a classroom assistant, and his father, Richard, is in the fire brigade.^[7][8]

Career

At the age of eleven, Madden joined the youth theatre programme at Paisley Arts Centre to help overcome his shyness.^[7] He was soon cast as young Andy in the film adaptation of Iain Banks's Complicity; he was then cast in the lead role of Sebastian in the children's television series Barmy Aunt Boomerang,^[9][10] for which he filmed six episodes that aired from 1999 until 2000.

Madden (second from right) with his Game of Thrones co-stars: Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner, Alfie Allen, and Kit Harington in November 2009

He attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow, from where he graduated in 2007.^[9][10] While at RSAMD, he worked with The Arches and Glasgow Repertory Company, followed by Franz Xaver Kroetz's play Tom Fool at the Citizens' Theatre, which was so well received that it transferred to London, where Madden was spotted by a team from Shakespeare's Globe.^[10] In his final year with RSAMD, he was cast as Romeo in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the modern Globe Theatre which, after an initial run in London, made a tour of open-air stages during the summer of 2007,^[10][11] this being the Globe's first tour.^[12]

He played Callum McGregor in the stage production of Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses in 2008. He later gained the lead role of Dean McKenzie in the 2009 BBC comedy-drama series Hope Springs,^[9] followed by his roles as Ripley in the 2010 film Chatroom,^[13] and as Theatre of Hate singer Kirk Brandon in the 2010 film Worried About The Boy.^[14] From 2011 to 2013, he starred as Robb Stark in the HBO series Game of Thrones, based upon the series of novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R. R. Martin.^[15][16][17] Speaking in September 2018, Madden claimed that he was not paid much for his role in Game of Thrones.^[18] During this period, Madden also starred in the Channel 4 comedy-drama series Sirens, and in the BBC drama series Birdsong.

Madden speaking at the 2013 Comic-Con in San Diego, California

In May 2013, Madden was chosen to portray the prince in the live action Disney film Cinderella.^[19] The film was released in March 2015. Madden first obtained his Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card for the 2014 miniseries Klondike, in which he plays Bill Haskell.^[20]

Between 12 May and 13 August 2016, Madden appeared on stage in London's West End playing the part of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, where he was reunited with his Cinderella costar Lily James, who played Juliet, and director Kenneth Branagh.^[21] Richard was replaced as Romeo in July 2016, after suffering an ankle injury.^[22]

In 2016, he played the leading role of Cosimo de' Medici, the son of the founder of the Medici Bank during the Italian Renaissance, in the Italian-British television drama series, Medici: Masters of Florence. In the same year he played American pickpocket Michael Mason in the 2016 action movie Bastille Day, starring alongside Idris Elba.^[23]

Madden received widespread critical acclaim and recognition for his role as Sergeant David Budd in the 2018 BBC thriller series Bodyguard. After achieving high levels of popularity in the UK, the show was released to a worldwide audience on Netflix in October 2018.^[24][25] His performance earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama.

Recognition

Of Madden's performance as Mark McNulty in the National Theatre of Scotland's production of Be Near Me, Warwick Thompson of Bloomberg noted his performance to be "especially good".^[26] Susan Mansfield of The Scotsman reported that Madden has caught the eye of critics for his work and reported additional positive reviews of his work by The Daily Telegraph and The Observer.^[9]

In reviewing the Globe Theatre's 2007 production of Romeo and Juliet as its first-ever tour, Susan Elkin of The Stage noted Madden's "gravelly Glaswegian, almost childlike Romeo".^[12]

In 2010, The Scotsman touted Madden as "one of the hottest young acting talents in the business". They also noted that Madden is "tipped for mainstream glory this year" due to his upcoming roles in the film Chatroom and TV series Game of Thrones. He won Most Stylish Male at the Scottish Style Awards in October 2009 and was also named in Esquire's Hottest Stars for 2010.^[17]

He was named one of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow in 2011.^[27]

Madden has been compared to Sean Connery, and is reported to have been offered the role of James Bond to succeed Daniel Craig, following his performance in Bodyguard. He has said that he is "flattered and thankful" to be considered for the role.^[28]

Personal life

Madden had a relationship with English actress Jenna Coleman, which ended in 2015. He has also dated TV presenter Laura Whitmore, model Suki Waterhouse, and actress/model Ellie Bamber^[29] whom he dated between summer 2017 and December 2018.^[30]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes[31]
2000	Complicity	Young Andy	Gavin Millar
2010	Chatroom	Ripley	Hideo Nakata
2011	Strays	Elliot	Robert McKillop	Short film
2013	A Promise	Friedrich	Patrice Leconte
2015	Cinderella	Prince Kit	Kenneth Branagh
	Group B	Shane Hunter	Nick Rowland	Short film
2016	Bastille Day	Michael Mason	James Watkins
2018	Ibiza	Leo West	Alex Richanbach
2019	Rocketman	John Reid	Dexter Fletcher	Post-production
	1917		Sam Mendes	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes[31]
1999–2000	Barmy Aunt Boomerang	Sebastian Simpkins	20 episodes
2002	Taggart	Christie	Episode: "Watertight"
2009	Hope Springs	Dean McKenzie	8 episodes
2010	Worried About The Boy	Kirk Brandon	Television film
2011	Sirens	Ashley Greenwick	6 episodes
2011–2013	Game of Thrones	Robb Stark	21 episodes Screen International Award for Star of Tomorrow (2011) Nominated – Scream Award for Best Ensemble (2011) Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2011, 2013) Nominated – NewNowNext Award for Cause You're Hot (2013)
2012	Birdsong	Captain Michael Weir	2 episodes
2014	Klondike	Bill Haskell	3 episodes
2015	Lady Chatterley's Lover	Oliver Mellors	Television film
2016	Medici: Masters of Florence	Cosimo de' Medici	8 episodes; also executive producer
2017	Oasis	Peter Leigh	Pilot
	Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams	Agent Ross	Episode: "The Hood Maker"
2018	Bodyguard	PS David Budd	6 episodes Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama (2019) National Television Award for Drama Performance (2019) Nominated – Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series (2019)

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Director	Venue[31]
2005–2006	I Confess	Mahmood	Andy Arnold	The Arches Theatre Company[9]
	The Winter's Tale	Florizel Cleomenes	Gordon Barr	Glasgow Repertory Company[9]
2006	Tom Fool	Ludwig Meier	Clair Lizzimore	Citizen's Theatre[32]
2007				Bush Theatre[33]
	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo Montague	Ed Dick	Shakespeare’s Globe
2008	Noughts and Crosses	Callum McGregor	Dominic Cooke	Royal Shakespeare Company
2009	Be Near Me	Mark McNulty	John Tiffany	Donmar Warehouse[9]
				National Theatre of Scotland[9]
2015	Four Play	Michael	Jack Sain	Old Vic New Voices Festival
2016	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo Montague	Kenneth Branagh	Garrick Theatre

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2013	Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate	Trevor Belmont / Alucard
2014	Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2	Alucard

Voice roles

Year	Title	Role
2010	Radio play "Of Mice And Men" for BBC	Curley
2015–2016	Scotland home movies for BBC 4 parts	Voice over
2019	Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love and War	Voice over

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Awards for Richard Madden

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