Richard Armitage

Richard Armitage is a multi-award winning stage and screen actor best known for his role in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy, Captain America, Alice through the Looking Glass, Into the Storm and Oceans 8. In 2022-25, he starred in four of Netflix’s Harlan Coben adaptations and also starred in Obsession for Netflix. For ITV he played Matthew Nolan in the smash hit ‘Red Eye’ and is starring in and Executive Producing an adaptation of a French TV show ‘Balthazar’ about a forensic pathologist for ITV in 2026.

His theatre credits include “Love Love Love” directed by Michael Mayer on Broadway, ‘Uncle Vanya’ directed by Ian Rickson and Yael Farber’s staging of “The Crucible”, in London which earned
him an Olivier Award nomination. He will return to the stage in London in 2026 in a new production directed by Yael Farber

He is the author of the British Book Awards-shortlisted Geneva (an instant Audible number 1) now in development for tv adaptation with Sony UK and of The Cut, also in development with Jed Mercurio at HTM. The novel was published in hardback by Faber (UK) and Pegasus (US) in August ‘25.