From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Charles Frost, in September 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. Early in his screen career he played Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983 he played Edmund Bertram in the television adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park. In 1984 he appeared in the films Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Jewel in the Crown.

Since then his film and television work has included several adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet, in which he played Horatio — a role he had previously played with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He also appeared in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (1996), Othello (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995). He voiced Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992).

Other television appearances include two Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot films, Sharpe's Regiment, Playing the King, Torchwood and Collision. He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Ghosts, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey and Casualty.

Farrell's stage work includes the plays The Cherry Orchard, Camille and The Crucible, as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Hamlet.