Jonathan Forbes

Jonathan Forbes (born 4 December 1976 in Dublin) is an Irish actor.

Early life Forbes was born in Dublin, Ireland on 4 December 1976. He attended Gonzaga College where he was in the same class as fellow actor Andrew Scott, before studying English at University College Dublin.

Career Forbes trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2001 as a BBC Carleton Hobbs Award winner.

In 2001 he played the lead role in John Deery's debut feature Conspiracy of Silence, for which he was nominated Best Newcomer at the inaugural Irish Film and Television Awards. He made his stage debut in Trevor Nunn's production of A Streetcar Named Desire at The Lyttelton Theatre in 2002. Other theatre highlights include Michael Boyd's first season at the RSC (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear), Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre) and The Good Soldier (Theatre Royal Bath). Television highlights include Hornblower, Foyle's War and Titanic, Blood and Steel.

In 2011, he appeared in "The National Anthem", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.

From 2013 to 2016, Forbes has provided the voice of the character Connor in the CGI version of the iconic British TV series Thomas and Friends.

In 2015 he starred opposite Sharon Horgan and American comedian Rob Delaney in Catastrophe, a six-part comedy series for Channel 4 which first aired in the UK on 19 January 2015. The second series of the show also aired in 2015, and the third in 2017. The fourth and final series was broadcast in 2019.

Forbes potrtrayed Freddy Fuller in the BBC Radio 4 drama Tracks from 2016 to 2020.

In 2019, Forbes starred as the title character in the play Hamlet, which began its performance on 28 March 2019

Filmography Film YearTitleRoleNotes 1997 The Art of Salesmanship Stewart Short film 2003 Conspiracy of Silence Daniel McLaughlin 2013 Thomas & Friends: King of the Railway Connor (voice) UK/US versions 2014 Made David Short film 2016 Thomas & Friends: The Great Race Connor (voice) UK/US versions 2018 All The World's a Stage The Actor Short film 2018 Eve Toby Lang Post-production

Television YearTitleRoleNotes 2002 The Magnificent Ambersons First Beau Television movie 2003 Horatio Hornblower 3 Midshipman Charles Orrock Television movie 2003 Hornblower: Duty Midshipman Charles Orrock Television movie 2007 The Bill Kevin Todd Episode: "Cracking Under Pressure" 2007 Doctors Jake Wallis Episode: "Sand" 2008 Foyle's War Johann Episode: "Broken Souls" 2010 Bloody Foreigners Witold Urbanowicz Episode: "The Untold Battle of Britain" 2011 Casualty Jack Tanner Episode: "Starting Over" 2011 Black Mirror Browne Episode: "The National Anthem" 2012 Titanic: Blood and Steel Eddy Hatton 11 episodesTelevision miniseries 2013 Holby City Todd Parish Episode: "Unravelled" 2013–16 Thomas & Friends Connor (voice) UK/US versions 2015 Pypo Victor Episode: "Lactation" 2015-2017 Catastrophe Fergal 13 episodes 2015 Pypo Police Officer Episode: "Asking for It" 2015 New Tricks John Hartwell Episode: "The Russian Cousin" 2017 Fearless Dominic Truelove 6 episodesTelevision miniseries

Video games YearTitleRoleNotes 2018 Vampyr Sean Hampton (voice) 2020 Gwent: The Witcher Card Game Gezras of Leyda (voice) In the "Way of the Witcher" expansion. 2022 Dying Light 2 Stay Human Hakon (voice)2024Elden Ring Shadow of the ErdtreeHornsent (voice)

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