Hugh Bonneville
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Nov 10, 1963 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
Paddington, London, England, UK
Biography
Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams (born 10 November 1963) is an English stage, film, television and radio actor. He was born in Paddington in west London in 1963. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School in south-east London and at Sherborne School in Dorset. After reading theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Known For
| 2026 | From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026Himself - Host | |
| 2026 | Cold War 1994 | |
| 2026 | Twenty Twenty SixIan Fletcher | |
| 2025 | Downton Abbey: The Grand FinaleRobert Crawley | |
| 2025 | Bank of Dave 2: The Loan RangerSir Charles | |
| 2025 | Christmas KarmaMarley | |
| 2025 | A Sisyphean TaskThe Headmaster | |
| 2025 | Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand FinaleSelf | |
| 2025 | Nordic Train at ChristmasNarrator | |
| 2025 | JAMES & CoSelf - Video message | |
| 2025 | Great British Train Journeys from AboveSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2025 | Born to Be WildSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2024 | Paddington in PeruHenry Brown | |
| 2024 | Alpine Train at ChristmasNarrator | |
| 2024 | Dame Maggie Smith - A CelebrationRobert Crawley (archive footage) | |
| 2024 | OZI: Voice of the ForestErzähler | |
| 2024 | Douglas Is CancelledDouglas | |
| 2024 | The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick TurpinJonathan Wilde | |
| 2024 | The Secret Lives of AnimalsSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2024 | The Agency: Central IntelligenceJames Richardson | |
| 2024 | The Real History of Communismالراوي | |
| 2023 | The Coronation ConcertSelf- Presenter | |
| 2023 | Peter Sellers: Genius at WorkNarrator | |
| 2023 | Bank of DaveSir Charles | |
| 2023 | Dead Cat FilmClio | |
| 2023 | The Wonders of EuropeNarrator | |
| 2023 | The GoldDCI Brian Boyce | |
| 2022 | The Amazing MauriceThe Mayor (voice) | |
| 2022 | Downton Abbey: A New EraRobert Crawley | |
| 2022 | I Came ByHector Blake | |
| 2022 | The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A CelebrationSelf - Narrator | |
| 2022 | The Secret Life of Our PetsNarrator (voice) | |
| 2022 | Secrets of the Royal GardensNarrator | |
| 2022 | Sunday with Laura KuenssbergSelf | |
| 2021 | Silent HoursCommander William Calthorpe | |
| 2021 | The Crown's Ancient ForestNarrator | |
| 2021 | To OliviaRoald Dahl | |
| 2021 | The Vicar of Dibley: Inside OutSelf | |
| 2021 | Madame Tussauds: The Full WaxNarrator | |
| 2021 | Dancing NationNarrator ("States of Mind") | |
| 2021 | Secret Life of the ForestNarrator (Voice) | |
| 2021 | Inside the Forest Seasons of WonderVypravěč | |
| 2021 | Wild Tales from the FarmNarrateur | |
| 2020 | Jingle Jangle: A Christmas JourneyMr. Delacroix | |
| 2020 | Miranda: My Such Fun CelebrationSelf | |
| 2020 | Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for ChristmasSelf | |
| 2020 | The Life and Times of Captain Sir TomSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2020 | StagedHugh | |
| 2020 | SandylandsOne-eyed man | |
| 2019 | The CorruptedHammond | |
| 2019 | Downton AbbeyRobert Crawley | |
| 2019 | Downton Abbey Live!Self | |
| 2019 | Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand EventSelf | |
| 2019 | Paddington: The Man Behind the BearHimself - Presenter | |
| 2019 | Odilo Fabian or (the Possibility of Impossible Dreams)The Narrator | |
| 2019 | DNA Journey | |
| 2019 | Her Majesty's CavalryNarrator - Self | |
| 2019 | A Little Late with Lilly SinghSelf | |
| 2019 | AmphibiaWigbert (voice) | |
| 2018 | A Merry Little Christmas with Sutton Foster and Hugh BonnevilleSelf | |
| 2018 | Countdown to CalvarySelf | |
| 2018 | Sofia the First: Forever RoyalVoice of the Library/The First Storykeeper (voice) | |
| 2018 | Wild Great BritainNarrator | |
| 2018 | Wild BritainNarrator | |
| 2017 | Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond SodorMerlin (voice) | |
| 2017 | Paddington 2Henry Brown | |
| 2017 | BreatheTeddy Hall | |
| 2017 | Viceroy's HouseLord Mountbatten | |
| 2017 | Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the WorldNarrator (voice) | |
| 2017 | A Return to Grace: Luther's Life and LegacyNarrator | |
| 2017 | DuckTalesSanta Claus (voice) | |
| 2016 | Our Ex-WifeNarrator | |
| 2016 | The Grand TourSelf | |
| 2015 | All Change at LongleatNarrator | |
| 2015 | The Secret World of LEGONarration | |
| 2015 | Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis | |
| 2015 | Stick ManSanta (voice) | |
| 2015 | GalavantPirate King | |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf | |
| 2014 | Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi DramaSelf | |
| 2014 | The Monuments Men2nd Lt. Donald Jeffries | |
| 2014 | PaddingtonHenry Brown | |
| 2014 | Muppets Most WantedIrish Journalist | |
| 2014 | TB: Return of the PlagueHimself | |
| 2014 | The Dinner PartyThe Host | |
| 2014 | W1AIan Fletcher | |
| 2014 | Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night FeastHimself | |
| 2014 | A Life on ScreenSelf | |
| 2014 | Last Week Tonight with John OliverNarrator (voice) | |
| 2014 | Last Week Tonight with John OliverSelf - Guest Star | |
| 2014 | Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)Narrator | |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf - Guest | |
| 2013 | The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2Self | |
| 2013 | The Magnificent Lion BoyLeonard Orlov | |
| 2013 | Da Vinci's Demons | |
| 2013 | Sofia the FirstBook Narrator (voice) | |
| 2013 | Sofia the FirstSecret Library (voice) | |
| 2012 | Mr. StinkMr. Stink | |
| 2012 | Just a MinuteSelf | |
| 2012 | The Hollow CrownGloucester | |
| 2011 | Doctor Who: The Curse of the Black Spot PrequelCaptain Henry Avery | |
| 2011 | The Jonathan Ross ShowSelf | |
| 2011 | Twenty TwelveIan Fletcher | |
| 2011 | The HotelHimself - Narrator | |
| 2011 | World's Most Dangerous Roads | |
| 2010 | Burke & HareLord Harrington | |
| 2010 | Third StarBeachcomber | |
| 2010 | ShanghaiBen Sanger | |
| 2010 | Critical EyeBrian | |
| 2010 | Murder on the Orient ExpressEdward Masterman | |
| 2010 | The Silence | |
| 2010 | Downton AbbeyRobert Crawley | |
| 2010 | Ben HurPilate | |
| 2010 | Turn Back TimeNarrator (voice) | |
| 2009 | Knife EdgeCharles Pollock | |
| 2009 | Glorious 39Gilbert | |
| 2009 | From Time to TimeCaptain Oldknow | |
| 2009 | HunterDSI Iain Barclay | |
| 2009 | Getting OnPhilip Moore | |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest | |
| 2008 | One of Those DaysMr. Burrell | |
| 2008 | French FilmJed | |
| 2008 | Miss Austen RegretsRev Brook Bridges | |
| 2008 | Filth: The Mary Whitehouse StorySir Hugh Carleton Greene | |
| 2008 | BonekickersGregory Parton | |
| 2008 | Freezing | |
| 2008 | Lost in AustenMr Bennet | |
| 2007 | Four Last SongsSebastian Burrows | |
| 2007 | The Diary of a NobodyPooter | |
| 2007 | Five DaysDSI Iain Barclay | |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton ShowSelf | |
| 2006 | Beau Brummell: This Charming ManPrince Regent | |
| 2006 | Scenes of a Sexual NatureGerry | |
| 2006 | The One ShowSelf - Guest | |
| 2006 | Tsunami: The AftermathTony Whittaker | |
| 2006 | Rachael Ray | |
| 2006 | The One ShowSelf | |
| 2005 | Man to ManFraser McBride | |
| 2005 | AsylumMax Raphael | |
| 2005 | UnderclassmanHeadmaster Felix Powers | |
| 2005 | The Robinsons | |
| 2005 | Doctor WhoHenry Avery | |
| 2005 | The Rotters' ClubVoice of Adult Ben | |
| 2004 | Stage BeautySamuel Pepys | |
| 2004 | Piccadilly JimLord Wisbeach | |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's MarpleInspector Hewitt | |
| 2003 | Conspiracy of SilenceFr. Jack Dowling | |
| 2003 | Hear the SilenceDr. Andrew Wakefield | |
| 2003 | Love AgainPhilip Larkin | |
| 2003 | Thursday the 12thBrin Hopper | |
| 2003 | The CommanderJames Lampton (uncredited) | |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self - Guest | |
| 2002 | Right Under My EyesJames | |
| 2002 | The Gathering StormIvo Pettifer | |
| 2002 | The BiographerEric | |
| 2002 | Doctor ZhivagoYevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago | |
| 2002 | Daniel DerondaHenleigh Grandcourt | |
| 2002 | Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale | |
| 2002 | Tipping the VelvetRalph Banner | |
| 2002 | Top GearSelf | |
| 2001 | IrisYoung John Bayley | |
| 2001 | Blow DryLouis | |
| 2001 | The Emperor's New ClothesBertrand | |
| 2001 | High Heels and Low LifesFarmer | |
| 2001 | The CazaletsHugh Cazalet | |
| 2000 | Take a Girl Like YouJulian Ormerod | |
| 2000 | Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle ChoirHimself | |
| 2000 | Madame BovaryCharles Bovary | |
| 1999 | Mansfield ParkMr. Rushworth | |
| 1999 | Notting HillBernie | |
| 1998 | The Scold's BridleTim Duggan | |
| 1998 | MosleyBob Boothby | |
| 1998 | MosleyBob Boothby | |
| 1997 | Tomorrow Never DiesHMS Bedford Air Warfare Officer | |
| 1997 | BreakoutPeter Schneider | |
| 1997 | Midsomer MurdersHugh Barton | |
| 1997 | Get Well SoonNorman Tucker | |
| 1997 | See You FridayDaniel | |
| 1997 | The Man Who Made Husbands JealousFerdinand Fitzgerald | |
| 1997 | The ViewSelf | |
| 1997 | Holding The BabyGordon Muir | |
| 1996 | Married for LifeSteve Hollingsworth | |
| 1995 | Bugs | |
| 1994 | Fair GameGerry (as Richard Bonneville) | |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's FrankensteinSchiller | |
| 1994 | The Sanctuary SparrowDaniel Aurifaber | |
| 1994 | CadfaelDaniel Aurifaber | |
| 1994 | The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesVictor Savage | |
| 1993 | Stalag LuftSqdn. Ldr. Barton (as Richard Bonneville) | |
| 1993 | GMTVSelf | |
| 1993 | Peak PracticeDominic Kent | |
| 1992 | Between the Lines | |
| 1991 | Paul Merton: The Series | |
| 1991 | DodgemRick Bayne | |
| 1991 | Murder Most HorridInspector Dawson | |
| 1990 | ChancerJas | |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's PoirotEdward Masterman | |
| 1987 | DispatchesSelf - Narrator | |
| 1987 | Dispatches | |
| 1984 | Sherlock HolmesVictor Savage | |
| 1971 | Great PerformancesSelf | |
| 1944 | Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Nominee | |
| - | Restoring Genius: The Art of Agnolo BronzinoNarrator | |
| - | Go Away! | |
| - | Legally MadGordan Hamm |
| 2026 | Everybody to Kenmure StreetExecutive Producer |