Richard Armitage
Birthday: 22 August 1971, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Birth Name: Richard Crispin Armitage
Height: 189 cm
Richard Crispin Armitage was born and raised in Leicester, England, to Margaret (Hendey), a secretary, and John Armitage, an engineer. He attended Pattison College in Binley Road, Coventry, and studie ...Show More
[on his professional quandary, as a six-foot-two actor, in playing Thorin, the Dwarf King] I think t Show more
[on his professional quandary, as a six-foot-two actor, in playing Thorin, the Dwarf King] I think the biggest challenge for me is that when I walk into a room they think the wrong guy has come to the audition. It's a compliment, but on a business level it's difficult because it's hard to convince people it was really me playing the role. Hide
You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have Show more
You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are. Hide
I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it. I think it's a weird thing. It's like Show more
I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it. I think it's a weird thing. It's like you become someone else, like stepping into another universe. Hide
I try to be quite a detailed actor. People were really picking up on that. Even if it was just a fli Show more
I try to be quite a detailed actor. People were really picking up on that. Even if it was just a flicker of the eye or something, they got it. Hide
Live acting is a kind of adventure sport. I don't go abseiling or snowboarding, but I sometimes thin Show more
Live acting is a kind of adventure sport. I don't go abseiling or snowboarding, but I sometimes think that stepping out on stage can have the same kind of adrenaline rush. Hide
[on suffering an injury on the set of Spooks before his first audition for Thorin Oakenshield] I had Show more
[on suffering an injury on the set of Spooks before his first audition for Thorin Oakenshield] I had taken so many painkillers that I hobbled into the room, sat on my hands and the whole meeting passed in a bit of a blur. If nothing else, I think, with my audition I may have succeeded in showing my ability to convey pain! Hide
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