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Anthony Howell (born 27 June 1971) is an English actor, best known for his starring role as Sgt. Paul Milner in the British TV series '' Foyle's War'' and Margit/Morgott in '' Elden Ring''.


Early years

Howell was born in the Lake District. He trained to be an actor at the Drama Centre in North London. His acting debut came when he began a world tour with
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's stage play ''The Geometry of Miracles''.


Career

He subsequently starred in the BBC four-part series '' Wives and Daughters'' (1999) before joining the 2000 Royal Shakespeare Company season in
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, where he took leading roles in the three main plays of that year: Orlando in ''
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'', Benvolio in ''
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'' and Antipholous of Ephesus in ''
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'', playing opposite
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. After leaving the RSC in 2001 he filmed three TV series; ''Ultimate Force'', ''Helen West'' and ''Foyle's War'', where he would spend almost a decade working alongside Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks. During the months he wasn't filming ''Foyle's War'', he returned to the theatre in the UK. In 2005, Howell starred in
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's ''
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'' in London's
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. He played the lead in the first stage adaptation of
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's ''
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'' which toured the UK in 2006. In 2008, Howell appeared in the Primavera production of ''Jingo: A Farce of War'' by Charles Wood at London's
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, then toured with the Peter Hall company in an adaptation of Henry James's ''Portrait of a Lady'' and Ibsen's ''A Doll's House''. In 2010, he played Gordon Way in the BBC TV adaptation of Dirk Gently (which was loosely based upon the books by
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). Later that year he joined
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to perform in ''Henry VIII'', and also in the world premiere of Howard Brenton's ''Anne Boleyn'' playing the role of a young Henry VIII opposite
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as Anne, roles they both reprised at the Globe in the following year. Two years later he played Trigorin in a new adaptation of Chekhov's ''The Seagull'' by
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winning writer,
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at the
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. He also played Jean Neuhaus, a Belgian chocolatier in a Season 2 episode of ''
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''. Howell filmed ''
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'' in
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, an NBC Universal series starring
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. He also voices Victor Belmont in the 2014 video game '' Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2'', as well as providing the motion capture for the protagonist,
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. He also provided the voice and motion capture for Weyland-Yutani employee Christopher Samuels in the 2014 survival horror game, '' Alien: Isolation''. In the summer seasons of 2014 and 2015 he appeared on the stage of the
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in London, in 2014 as Cassius in
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''Julius Caesar'' and in 2015 as Bishop Santa Cruz in Helen Edmundson's '' The Heresy of Love''. In 2017, he played Cliff in the horror film ''Widow's Walk.'' In 2018,
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aired a five part drama called ''The Unforgiven''. Set in 1984, this was a prequel to the
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television series '' Waking the Dead'', which ran from 2000–2011. ''The Unforgiven'' is written by ''Waking the Deads creator, Barbara Machin, and features the original cast, the exception being
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who played Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd in the TV series. Howell was cast in the role of Detective Constable Peter Boyd for the radio series.


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Video games


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Howell, Anthony 1971 births Living people English male film actors English male stage actors English male video game actors English cinematographers English male television actors 21st-century English male actors English male Shakespearean actors Royal Shakespeare Company members Alumni of the Drama Centre London