Richard Madden
Richard Madden (born June 18, 1986) is a Scottish actor. He was cast in his first role at age 11 and made his screen acting debut in 2000. He later began performing on stage whilst a student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2007, he toured with Shakespeare's Globe company as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, a role he reprised in the West End in 2016. Madden rose to fame with his portrayal of Robb Stark in the fantasy drama series Game of Thrones from 2011 to 2013. Madden subsequently played Prince Kit in the romantic fantasy film Cinderella (2015) and Italian banker Cosimo de' Medici in the first season of the historical fiction series Medici (2016). In 2018, he gained acclaim for his performance as a police officer in the thriller series Bodyguard, for which he won a Golden Globe Award. The following year, Madden was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time, and he had supporting roles as music manager John Reid in the biopic Rocketman and a soldier in the war film 1917. He has since starred as Ikaris in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals (2021) and as a spy in the action thriller series Citadel (2023).
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Credits
- 2024 · Killer Heat as Leonides / Elias Vardakis
- 2023 · Spy Ops as David Budd
- 2023 · Citadel as Mason Kane / Kyle Conroy
- 2022 · Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Eternals as Self - Ikaris
- 2021 · Eternals as Ikaris
- 2019 · 1917 as Lieutenant Blake
- 2019 · Rocketman as John Reid
- 2019 · Harry Birrell Presents: Films of Love & War as Narrator
- 2018 · Bodyguard as David Budd
- 2018 · Ibiza as Leo West
- 2017 · Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams as Agent Ross
- 2017 · Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
- 2017 · Oasis as Peter Leigh
- 2017 · Oasis as Peter
- 2016 · Medici: Masters of Florence as Cosimo de' Medici
- 2016 · Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet as Romeo Montague
- 2016 · Bastille Day as Michael Mason
- 2015 · Group B as Shane
- 2015 · Lady Chatterley's Lover as Oliver Mellors
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · Cinderella as Prince
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Klondike as Bill Haskell
- 2013 · A Promise as Friedrich Zeitz
- 2012 · Birdsong as Captain Weir
- 2011 · Strays as
- 2011 · Sirens as Ashley Greenwick
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Robb Stark
- 2010 · Chatroom as Ripley
- 2010 · Worried About the Boy as Kirk Brandon
- 2009 · Hope Springs as Dean McKenzie
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · El hormiguero as Self
- 2000 · Complicity as Young Andy