Richard Armitage
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Leicestershire, England
Was signed up for Tap Dancing classes at the age of four, to correct his pigeon toes. In order to obtain his Equity Card, he joined a circus in Budapest at the age of 17. Enrolled in drama school at 22 where he completed the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art's (LAMDA) three year program. Got his firstexperience ofacting in a feature film witha one-line role in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999). In 2009, he beat international stars Johnny Depp and Daniel Craig to be the winner of the Romantic Novelists' Sexiest Thing on Two Legs award. Agreed to beundergo theexperience of water torture for a scene in the seventh season of Spooks (2002) where his character undergoes waterboarding - a practice banned in the UK.
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Highest Rated Movies
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96%
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95%
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80%
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76%
Filmography
MOVIES
| RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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| 76% | My Zoe |
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— | 2021 |
| 74% | The Lodge |
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— | 2020 |
| 13% | Brain on Fire |
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— | 2018 |
| 69% | Ocean's 8 |
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— | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | Sleepwalker |
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— | 2017 |
| 68% | Pilgrimage |
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— | 2017 |
| 28% | Alice Through the Looking Glass |
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$77.1M | 2016 |
| 59% | The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies |
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$187.8M | 2014 |
| 95% | Last Days in Vietnam |
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$0.5M | 2014 |
| 21% | Into The Storm |
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$40.7M | 2014 |
| 74% | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug |
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$180.5M | 2013 |
| 64% | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey |
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$303.1M | 2012 |
| 80% | Captain America: The First Avenger |
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$176.7M | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | Charlie |
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— | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | Miss Marie Lloyd |
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— | 2007 |
| 96% | No End in Sight |
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$1.3M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Shakespeare Retold |
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— | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Impressionists |
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— | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Frozen |
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— | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | Ordeal by Innocence |
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— | 1987 |
TV
| RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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Space Sweepers
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| 91% |
Stay Close
2021
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| 94% |
Castlevania
2017-2021
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| 83% |
The Stranger
2020
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| No Score Yet |
Berlin Station
2016-2019
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| 92% |
Hannibal
2013-2015
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| No Score Yet |
The View
1997-2020
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| No Score Yet |
Inspector George Gently
2008-2017
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| 85% |
Strike Back
2011-2020
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| No Score Yet |
MI-5
2003-2011
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| No Score Yet |
Robin Hood
2006-2009
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Mystery!
1980-2007
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POV
1988
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Moving On
2009
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North & South
2004
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Quotes from Richard Armitage's Characters
| Thorin Oakenshield: | If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place. |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | I am sorry that I made you a part of my perils... |
| Bilbo Baggins: | No! I am glad to have shared in your perils - that is more than any Baggins deserves! |
| Bilbo Baggins: | You've won the mountain, is that not enough? |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | Now...we defend it. |
| Gary: | Why didn't he just tell me? |
| Trey: | I don't know Dad. You're so easy to talk to. |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | Will you follow me one last time. |
| Gary: | Why didn't he just tell me? |
| Trey: | I don't know Dad. You're so easy to talk to. |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | I would have war. |
| Bard the Bowman: | Will you have peace, or war? |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | I will have war! |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | You have keen eyes, master Baggins. |
| Balin: | Well, that bargain was our only hope. |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | Not our only hope... |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | We're being watched! |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | "If this is to end in fire, then we will all burn together." |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | If this is to end in fire, then we will all burn together. |
| Bard the Bowman: | You have no right to enter that mountain! |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | I have the only right! |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | I'm sorry I doubted you |
| Bilbo Baggins: | No, I would have doubted me too |
| Thorin: | Loyalty, honor, a willing heart, I can ask for no more than that. |
| Thorin: | Where did you go, if I may ask? |
| Gandalf: | To look ahead. |
| Thorin: | and what brought you back? |
| Gandalf: | Looking behind. |
| Elrond: | So this is your purpose; to enter the mountain. |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | What of it? |
| Elrond: | There are some who would not deem it wise. |
| Elrond: | "So that is your purpose? To enter the Mountain? |
| Elrond: | So that is your purpose? To enter the Mountain? |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | "What of it?" |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | What of it? |
| Elrond: | "There are some who would not deem it wise.." |
| Elrond: | There are some who would not deem it wise.. |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | Have you done much fighting? |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | We will seize this chance to TAKE BACK EREBOR! |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | Loyalty, honor, and a willing heart. I can ask no more than that. |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | So this is the hobbit .. |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | So this is the hobbit . |
| Gandalf: | You asked me to find the 14 member of the company and have elected Mr. Baggins. |
| Bilbo Baggins: | Me? no, no, no ... |
| Bilbo Baggins: | Me? No, no, no... |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | I can not guarantee his safety. |
| Gandalf: | Understood. |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | Nor will I be responsible for his fate. |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | "I can not guarantee his safety." |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | I can not guarantee his safety. |
| Gandalf: | "Understood." |
| Gandalf: | Understood. |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | "Nor will I be responsible for his fate." |
| Thorin Oakenshield: | Nor will I be responsible for his fate. |