Andrew Havill

Andrew Havill (born 1 June 1965) is a British actor. Havill has appeared in more than 40 films and 50 plays beginning in the late 1980s. After training in Oxford and London, he began his career in repertory theatre in 1989 and made his screen debut in 1993. As a character actor, Havill has appeared in many British costume dramas.

Education Havill attended the University of Exeter, where he read English and drama. He spent four years with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain with roles in London theatre productions including For Those in Peril at the Shaw Theatre, As You Like It at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, and Reynard the Fox on the Drum Theatre Plymouth and south-west tour. At the Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, Havill appeared in Henry V, Twelfth Night, and A Proper Place. He spent a further four years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The following year, Havill was cast as the Reverend James Morell in George Bernard Shaw's Candida, for which The Guardians Lyn Gardner wrote "Much of the pleasure of Christopher Luscombe's well-observed period production is in watching Andrew Havill's interesting Morell move from confident self-belief to bewildered self-doubt as he starts to understand that even goodness is a form of selfishness." Havill's other stage roles of the 2000s include working with Alan Ayckbourn on his play Virtual Reality, a West End production of Jean Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon, and roles in director Chris Luscombe's productions of The Comedy of Errors and The Merry Wives of Windsor at Shakespeare's Globe. Of the latter, Gardner wrote "Havill's comic timing is a joy."

Havill also appeared as Frank Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor US tour of 2010. Ben Brantley commented in The New York Times, "As Ford... the excellent Mr. Havill is exactly as serious as he needs to be, reminding us that one of comedy’s main functions is to defuse bombs that in real life often explode and destroy." In 2012 and 2013, he was part of the original cast of James Graham's play This House, at the National Theatre, directed by Jeremy Herrin. His work has included three roles at Hampstead Theatre in the plays Farewell to the Theatre, Drawing the Line, and Wonderland, and a portrayal of the English physician Sir Gilbert Wedgecroft in a National Theatre production of Waste, with Anne Cox writing "Havill offers excellent support... as always." In 2019, Havill portrayed Warren Lewis at the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Shadowlands opposite actors Liz White and Hugh Bonneville, having appeared with Bonneville in the Downton Abbey film of the same year.

Television Havill made his television debut in Lucy Gannon's Soldier Soldier in 1993, followed by a portrayal of English critic John Davenport in The House of Elliot Series 3 the following year. and was in the BBC drama Spooks Series 8. His work of the 2010s includes playing Victor McKinley on the BBC's Father Brown, Edward Sidwell on The Coroner Series 1, episode 8 (Napoleon's Violin), and Gareth Anderson on Vera (in the episode Natural Selection) in 2017. and Professor Lucius Stamfield in Endeavour of the same year. In the fifth and sixth seasons of The Crown, he portrayed Robert Fellowes, the Queen's private secretary and brother-in-law of Princess Diana. He and twelve other cast members were nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for their roles in The Crown. In 2024, he portrayed the criminal defence lawyer Stuart Wentworth QC in the British television drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. In Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), he played a First Order Officer with a small speaking role. and General Reginald Dyer in the Bollywood biographical historical drama film Sardar Udham. In 2024, he portrayed Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson in the Netflix documentary drama Einstein and the Bomb with Aidan McArdle as Einstein.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1995 Restoration Galant Film debut 1997 Wilde Algernon 1998 Titanic Town Officer 1999 Janice Beard Piers 2002 The Heart of Me Charles (Dinah's fiancé) Nicholas Nickleby Mr. Nickleby 2003 Sylvia David Wevill 2004 The Rocket Post 2008 The Broken Dr. Myers Dummy Doctor Pop Art Mr. Milton Short 2010 Mr. Nice Prosecution Barrister London Boulevard Unlikely Vagrant 2011 The Merry Wives of Windsor Master Ford The Awakening George Vandermeer Les Misérables Cochepaille 2013 Closed Circuit News Reporter 1 The List Vickery 2014 The Imitation Game Teacher Remainder Peter Younger Letters from Baghdad Sir Percy Cox 2016 Dad's Army Captain Meeks Hot Property Alan Day The Children Act George 2019 The King Archbishop of Canterbury Downton Abbey Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood 2020 The Duke Sir Philip Hendy Sardar Udham General Reginald Dyer 2023 Such A Lovely Day John Short2024 Einstein and the Bomb Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson Television Year Title Role Notes 1993 Soldier Soldier Liaison Officer Television debut 1997 The Peter Principle Craig Hunter U.S. title: The Boss Harry Enfield & Chums Jeremy A Dance to the Music of Time Sunny Farebrother Kavanagh QC Nicholas Gee Wives and Daughters Sir Charles Morton 2000 The Ghost Hunter Professor Darcy 2001 Office Gossip Lonely Heart The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Inspector Ardery 2005 Casanova English Chancellor 2006 Surviving Disaster Kenneth Rayment Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes Tony David Television film Into the Storm King's Private Secretary Television film Small Island Mr. Ryder Taboo Quaker 2016–17 The Frankenstein Chronicles Reverend Ambrose Vera Gareth Anderson The Walk-In Mr. Atkinson 2022–23 The Crown Robert Fellowes Season 5 and Season 6 2024–26 IndustryLord Alexander NortonSeries 3–42026 Dirty BusinessRichard Aylard Mini-series; 3 episodes

Theatre

Year Title Role Venue 1989 A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Woman in Black The Actor Fortune Theatre 2006 The Comedy of Errors Antipholus of Syracuse Shakespeare's Globe 2012–13 This House Alan Clark MP National Theatre 2026 Springwood King George VI Hampstead Theatre