Background
Howell was born in the Lake District.
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 Robert Lepage"s stage play The Geometry of Miracles. After leaving the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2001 he filmed three television 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 United Kingdom. In 2005, Howell starred in Agatha Christie"s And Then There Were None in London"s West End. He played the lead in the first stage adaptation of John Fowles"s The French Lieutenant"s Woman which toured the United Kingdom in 2006.
In 2008, Anthony Howell appeared in the Primavera production of Jingo: A Farce of War by Charles Wood at London"s Finborough, 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 British Broadcasting Corporation television adaptation of Dirk Gently (which was loosely based upon the books by Douglas Adams).
Later that year he joined Shakespeare"s Globe 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 Miranda Raison as Anne, roles they both reprised at the Globe in the following year.
He also played Jean Neuhaus, a Belgian chocolatier in a Season 2 episode of Mr Selfridge. Howell filmed Dracula in Budapest, an National Broadcasting Company Universal series starring Jonathan Rhys Myers. 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, Dracula.
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 Globe in London, in 2014 as Cassius in Shakespeare"s Julius Caesar and in 2015 as Bishop Santa Cruz in Helen Edmundson"s The Heresy of Love.