Adrian Scarborough

Background

Scarborough was born in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, winning the Chesterton Award for Best Actor for school graduates.

Education

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Career

Scarborough made his big-screen debut in 1994 in The Madness of King George. His other movie appearances have included Sweet Revenge, Gosford Park, Vera Drake, Notes on a Scandal, The History Boys, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The King"s Speech, and Les Misérables. One of Scarborough"s early television roles was J.G. Quiggin in the 1997 adaptation of A Dance to the Music of Time.

He was also seen in the British Broadcasting Corporation series Let Them Eat Cake with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

He played "Bouffant", the gay couturier/servant/confidante to Saunder"s character, the "Comtesse de Vache". His other appearances on television have included productions such as Cranford, the television film Into the Storm, Psychoville and in the British Broadcasting Corporation comedy series Miranda.

He has appeared in two episodes of Midsomer Murders, playing separate characters in series 5 and series 10. He is also the voice of Abney in the British Broadcasting Corporation Children"s Television programme Abney & Teal.

He is also identified for his role as the butler Mr.

Pritchard in the British Broadcasting Corporation series Upstairs, Downstairs. In 2012 he appeared in the Independent Television series Mrs Biggs with fellow Gavin & Stacey star Sheridan Smith, playing the titular character"s father Bernard (the real-life father of Charmian Brent, ex-wife of Ronnie Biggs). He played an alien known as Kahler-Jex in an episode of Doctor Who entitled "A Town Called Mercy", which aired on 15 September 2012.

On stage, Scarborough has made frequent appearances at the Donmar, the Almeida, and in the West End and he has appeared in twenty productions for the Royal National Theatre.

On 19 June 2011, he took part in The Barn Theatre presents.. with Elliot Brown at the Barn Theatre, Welwyn Garden City Most recently he has appeared in Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic, again with frequent collaborator Sheridan Smith. In 2013, he played a role in Darkside, Tom Stoppard"s radio drama based on Pink Floyd"s album The Dark Side of the Moon.

In 2015, Scarborough appeared as Clive Trueman in the British Broadcasting Corporation television series Father Brown episode 3.15 "The Owl of Minerva", and in a supporting role on the Starz sitcom Blunt Talk. In 2016, Scarborough appeared as Tony Pitt in the Independent Television series Midsomer Murders episode 18.4 "A Dying Art".

Achievements

• In 1993, he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award and won the Manchester Evening News Award for his performance in The Comedy of Errors at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. In March 2011 he won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a revival of the play After the Dance by Terence Rattigan.

Connections

friends:

Dawn Sutcliffe