
Hugh Bonneville
Department: Acting
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

Right Under My Eyes
2002

Man to Man
2005

Mansfield Park
1999

Silent Hours
2021

Asylum
2005

Iris
2001

Stage Beauty
2004

Beau Brummell: This Charming Man
2006

Knife Edge
2009

Glorious 39
2009

The Gathering Storm
2002

The Crown's Ancient Forest
2021

One of Those Days
2008

Four Last Songs
2007

Nordic Noir - The Rise of Scandi Drama
2014

Blow Dry
2001

French Film
2008

Scenes of a Sexual Nature
2006

Miss Austen Regrets
2008

Burke & Hare
2010

The Coronation Concert
2023

All Change at Longleat
2015

Conspiracy of Silence
2003

Third Star
2010

The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
2013

Paddington in Peru
2024

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008

Mr. Stink
2012

The Monuments Men
2014

Paddington
2014

Stalag Luft
1993

The Diary of a Nobody
2007

Peter Sellers: Genius at Work
2023

Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor
2017

Doctor Who: The Curse of the Black Spot Prequel
2011

Muppets Most Wanted
2014

A Merry Little Christmas with Sutton Foster and Hugh Bonneville
2018

Notting Hill
1999

Tomorrow Never Dies
1997

Breakout
1997

Restoring Genius: The Art of Agnolo Bronzino
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The Secret World of LEGO
2015

Fair Game
1994

Paddington 2
2017

Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis
2015

Shanghai
2010

Bank of Dave
2023

Stick Man
2015

From Time to Time
2009

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025

Hear the Silence
2003

Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger
2025

Go Away!
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Breathe
2017

Christmas Karma
2025

The Magnificent Lion Boy
2013

Viceroy's House
2017

The Scold's Bridle
1998

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994

Mosley
1998

Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World
2017

Piccadilly Jim
2004

Critical Eye
2010

The Corrupted
2019

The Emperor's New Clothes
2001

Downton Abbey
2019

A Return to Grace: Luther's Life and Legacy
2017

Countdown to Calvary
2018

Underclassman
2005

TB: Return of the Plague
2014

Love Again
2003

Thursday the 12th
2003

Downton Abbey Live!
2019

Return to Downton Abbey: A Grand Event
2019

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
2020

To Olivia
2021

Paddington: The Man Behind the Bear
2019

Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
2020

The Dinner Party
2014

The Biographer
2002

High Heels and Low Lifes
2001

The Amazing Maurice
2022

Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2020

The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2021

Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022

I Came By
2022

The Life and Times of Captain Sir Tom
2020

Dead Cat Film
2023

Odilo Fabian or (the Possibility of Impossible Dreams)
2019

Sofia the First: Forever Royal
2018

Alpine Train at Christmas
2024

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022

Dame Maggie Smith - A Celebration
2024

Madame Tussauds: The Full Wax
2021

A Sisyphean Task
2025

Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale
2025

The Sanctuary Sparrow
1994

Nordic Train at Christmas
2025

From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2026
2026

OZI: Voice of the Forest
2024

Cold War 1994
2026

Bugs
1995

Midsomer Murders
1997

Murder Most Horrid
1991

The One Show
2006

Staged
2020

Dancing Nation
2021

Between the Lines
1992

Sherlock Holmes
1984

Five Days
2007

DuckTales
2017

The Commander
2003

Bonekickers
2008

Great Performances
1971

Doctor Zhivago
2002

Get Well Soon
1997

Hunter
2009

The Robinsons
2005

Legally Mad
—

Freezing
2008

The Jonathan Ross Show
2011

See You Friday
1997

Take a Girl Like You
2000

GMTV
1993

The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous
1997

Married for Life
1996

Cadfael
1994

The Silence
2010

Downton Abbey
2010

Doctor Who
2005

The Cazalets
2001

Twenty Twelve
2011

Daniel Deronda
2002

Ben Hur
2010

The Hotel
2011

Lost in Austen
2008

Tsunami: The Aftermath
2006

Galavant
2015

W1A
2014

The Wonders of Europe
2023

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004

DNA Journey
2019

Secret Life of the Forest
2021

Chancer
1990

Getting On
2009

Peak Practice
1993

Paul Merton: The Series
1991

Da Vinci's Demons
2013

Our Ex-Wife
2016

Mosley
1998

Just a Minute
2012

The Rotters' Club
2005

Dodgem
1991

The Grand Tour
2016

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale
2002

Douglas Is Cancelled
2024

Turn Back Time
2010

Wild Britain
2018

Wild Great Britain
2018

Sofia the First
2013

World's Most Dangerous Roads
2011

Tipping the Velvet
2002

Her Majesty's Cavalry
2019

Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast
2014

Top Gear
2002

A Life on Screen
2014

Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
2000

The Secret Life of Our Pets
2022

Inside the Forest Seasons of Wonder
2021

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014

The Hollow Crown
2012

Sofia the First
2013

The View
1997

Rachael Ray
2006

Wild Tales from the Farm
2021

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024

A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019

The Gold
2023

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

Secrets of the Royal Gardens
2022

Sandylands
2020

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014

Amphibia
2019

Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
2014

Dispatches
1987

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989

The Secret Lives of Animals
2024

The Agency: Central Intelligence
2024

Golden Globe Awards
1944

JAMES & Co
2025

Holding The Baby
1997

The One Show
2006

The Real History of Communism
2024

Great British Train Journeys from Above
2025

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994

Madame Bovary
2000

Born to Be Wild
2025

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022

Dispatches
1987

Twenty Twenty Six
2026