Nathaniel Parker

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Nathaniel Parker (born 18 May 1962) is an English stage and screen actor best known for his role in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Agravaine de Bois in the fourth series of Merlin.

Early life

Nathaniel Parker was born in London, the youngest son of the businessman and one-time British Rail chairman Sir Peter Parker and Jillian, a GP and gardener who wrote The Purest of Pleasures: The Gardener's Intuitive Gardens. Alan, the chairman of Brunswick Group, and Oliver Parker, a film producer, and a sister, Lucy, are among his two older brothers. Parker debuted at the National Youth Theatre in London and, after studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986.

Personal life

Anna Patrick, Parker's wife, is married to actress Anna Patrick. With their two children, the couple lives in Gloucestershire.

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Career

In Peter Hall's 1989 revival of The Merchant of Venice in London and on Broadway, co-starring Dustin Hoffman.

He appeared in Rupert Goold's West End revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow in 2000.

In 2013, Parker returned to the stage for the production of The Audience, starring Helen Mirren, written by Peter Morgan and directed by Stephen Daldry. At London's Gielgud Theatre, the performance ran for four months. It was also shown worldwide via National Theatre Live, and more than 110,000 viewers in the United Kingdom and the United States watched it on television.

In Wolf Hall (and Bring Up the Bodies) for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2014, Parker received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in London and appeared in New York City, where he received a Tony Award nomination. In 2021, he appeared at the Giel and the Sun in The Mirror and the Sun, the third and final part of the trilogy.

Parker appeared Jack Weatherill in James Graham's This House in Chichester in September 2016 and played the same role in the Garrick Theatre in the West End of London on September 19th.

In the tenth episode of Inspector Morse, Parker portrayed Jamie Jasper in 1989. He portrayed King David in a made-for-TV film in 1997.

Parker appeared in a variety of television costume dramas, including Martin Jordan in Joanna Trollope's A Village Affair, Gabriel Oak, 1995 television film, and Martin Tanley in the comedy film Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) with Chris Farley and Chris Rock. In a BBC version of Vanity Fair (1998), he appeared in Rawdon Crawley. Nathaniel Parker, according to Caryn James of the New York Times, "More than anyone else in the series, he brings some mystery to his character." In the BAFTA-winning BBC1 dramatization of Bleak House (2005), he also played Harold Skimpole.

Parker said in a 2007 Radio Times interview, his first big television break came in 1988 when he appeared in ITV's six-part drama Piece of Cake. Wilfred Owen appeared in Derek Jarman's War Requiem, a 1989 film adaptation of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. Laurence Olivier was co-starred in his last film role as an old soldier. In John Duigan's 1993 film version of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, four years later, Parker played Edward Rochester. "I'm exceptionally good in a difficult, hazy role," Vincent Canby wrote in his review.

Parker appeared in the long-running BBC1 crime series Inspector Lynley Mysteries, possibly his best-known role. Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Sharon Small's assistant, was his co-star. The Wall Street Journal said at the time when the series premiered on PBS in 2002 that it was "fully worthy of the Mystery." "British" is the product of a label. He appeared in The Haunted Mansion (2004), Albert Speer in Albert Speer's BBC film Stardust (2007). Parker appeared in St. Trinian's (directed by his brother, Oliver) for a brief period of time.

Parker appeared in Merlin's cast in 2011 to play Agravaine de Bois in all 13 episodes. He appeared alongside David Hyde Pierce in The Perfect Host, an independent comedy-drama.

Parker appeared alongside YouTube reviewer Stuart Ashen in the Alienware-sponsored sci-fi thriller series The Proxy in 2012. In the film version of Louise Penny's murder mystery novel Still Life, set in rural Quebec, he appeared as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. In 2012, he appeared in the TV show Me and Mrs Jones broadcast.

In July 2015, Parker portrayed Dicky Carmichael in the BBC's two-part television adaptation of Sadie Jones' debut novel The Outcast. Parker would appear in ABC TV's series Of Kings and Prophets in June 2015.

Parker is a voiceover artist who has worked on audiobooks, including Eoin Colfer's children's Artemis Fowl series, Charlie Higson's Young James Bond series, and William Brodrick's The Gardens of The Dead. He read Mark Haddon's book A Spot of Bother for BBC Radio Four's Book at Bedtime, and in Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, the first broadcast on BBC Radio Four Extra on November 20, 2011 and again on November 12, 2012. In addition, he has appeared on numerous video games and appeared in many radio shows as an interviewee and in radio dramas. You can find a complete list of Parker's extensive audio work on line.

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