Career
Born as Philip F. Donaghy in Redcar in Yorkshire in 1944, Donaghy trained at the London Drama Centre. With the Royal Shakespeare Company he played Mr. Freeman in The Plain Dealer (1988-1989), Sir Henry Wildair in The Constant Couple (1988-1989), Mr.
Medley in The Manitoba of Mode (1988-1989), and Raymond in Hess is Dead (1989) at the Almeida Theatre.
Other stage appearances include Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing and Brutus in Julius Caesar (1990) at the Open Air Theatre, Regent"s Park. Claudius in Hamlet (1993) and Torvald Helmer in A Doll"s House (1994) for the English Touring Theatre.
The Inspector in An Inspector Calls (1996-1997) at the Garrick Theatre, Count Orsini Rosenberg in Amadeus (1999) at The Old Vic, Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet (2002) for Theatr Clywd, Mr. Kipps in The Woman in Black (2003) at the Fortune Theatre, Wackford Squeers/Sir Mulbery Hawk in Nicholas Nickleby (2006), for the Chichester Festival Theatre and which transferred in December 2007 and January 2008 to the Gielgud Theatre.
Barnardo/Player King/Gravedigger in Hamlet (2011-2012) at the Young Vic, Baptista Minola in The Taming of the Shrew and Gonzalo in The Tempest (2012-2013) at Shakespeare"s Globe, and Erich in Taken At Midnight (2015) at the Haymarket Theatre.
Film appearances include Inner Party Speaker in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), and David Walker in McLibel (1998).
