Richard Madden

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“One of the most beautiful things about thrones is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances.”

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ALSO KNOWN FOR

Eternals (2021)

Bodyguard (2018)

Cinderella (2015)

Rocketman (2019)

Richard Madden is a Scottish film and television actor born on the 18th of June, 1986. Born and raised in Elderslie, Scotland, outside the city of Glasgow, where he grew up alongside his two sisters. His mother is a primary school teacher, and his father worked as a firefighter. At age eleven, Madden joined PACE Youth Theatre to help overcome his shyness and was soon cast in his first role as young Andy in the film adaptation of Iain Banks' Complicity, which was released in 2000. He was then cast in the lead role of Sebastian in the children's television series Barmy Aunt Boomerang. Madden later attended the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, graduating in 2007. Later that year, he toured with Shakespeare's Globe company as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, a role he reprised in the West End in 2016. He starred in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses in 2008 and National Theatre of Scotland's production of Be Near Me in 2009.

Madden later gained the lead role of Dean McKenzie in the 2009 BBC comedy-drama series Hope Springs, followed by his roles as Ripley in the 2010 film Chatroom and as singer Kirk Brandon in the 2010 film Worried About the Boy. He rose to prominence in 2011 for his portrayal of Robb Stark in the first three seasons of HBO's fantasy drama Game of Thrones, for which he received the Screen International Award for Star of Tomorrow. In 2018, he gained acclaim for his performance as a war veteran and Principal Protection Officer in the BBC thriller series Bodyguard, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama.

Madden’s other television and film credits include the lead role of Cosimo de' Medici in the first season of the historical fiction series Medici (2016), Prince Kit in Disney's live-action Cinderella (2015), a leading role in the Netflix romantic comedy film Ibiza (2018), John Reid in the Elton John biopic Rocketman (2019) and a lieutenant in the Oscar-nominated war film 1917 (2019). Madden was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time the following year. He has also recently starred as Ikaris in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals (2021).