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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1954-12-22 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Accra - Ghana

Hugh Quarshie

Biography

Hugh Anthony Quarshie (born 22 December 1954) is a Ghanaian-born British actor of stage, television, and film. Some of his best-known roles include his appearances in the films Highlander (1986) and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and his long-running role as Ric Griffin in the BBC medical drama Holby City (2001–present).

Known For

6.6%

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

May 19, 1999

6.8%

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Nov 14, 2018

6.5%

Red Sparrow

Feb 28, 2018

7.5%

Doctor Who

Mar 26, 2005

6.9%

Highlander

Mar 7, 1986

7.7%

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Aug 30, 2018

7.7%

MacGyver

Sep 29, 1985

6.7%

The Son

Nov 10, 2022

6.4%

Nightbreed

Feb 16, 1990

8.1%

Red Dwarf

Feb 15, 1988

7.3%

Absentia

Sep 25, 2017

6.5%

The Return

Sep 7, 2024

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Rapture

2024

The Return as Imphinomous

2023		Maryland as Pete
2023		Book Club: The Next Chapter as Ousmane

2022		Riches as Stephen Richards
2022		The Son as Doctor Harris
2022		The Railway Children Return as General Harrison

2021

Stephen as Neville Lawrence

2020		Breeders as Alex
2020		McDonald & Dodds as Clarence Adderly

2019

Skeletons of the Mary Rose as Narrator

2018		Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald as Mustafa Kama
2018		Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as Ekon Ameh
2018		Red Sparrow as Simon Benford

2017		Absentia as Semo Oduwale
2017		Retribution as DI Reed

2015

RSC Live: Othello as Othello

2013

Catherine Tate's Nan vs Holby City as Ric Griffin

2012

White Heat as Victor (present day)

2011		Ghosted
2011		Vera as Dr. Leon Parmer

2010

The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart as Narrator

2009

Small Island as Narrator

2007

A Turtle's Guide to the Pacific as Narrator

2005

Doctor Who as Solomon

2004

Who Do You Think You Are? as Self

2003

Conspiracy of Silence as Fr. Joseph Ennis

2002

The PhanDom Menace as Himself

2000		It Was an Accident as George Hurlock
2000		Jason and the Argonauts as Chiron
2000		Arabian Nights as Mustappa
2000		Ape-Man as Narrator

1999		BeastMaster
1999		To Walk with Lions as Maxwell
1999		Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as Captain Panaka
1999		Wing Commander as Lt. Obutu
1999		The Murder of Stephen Lawrence as Neville Lawrence
1999		Holby City as Ric Griffin

1998

A Respectable Trade as Caesar Peters

1997

Melissa as George Bond

1996

Silent Witness as Jomo Mashaba

1995		She's Out as DCI Ron Craigh
1995		Solomon & Sheba as Nikaule's Father

1994

Julius Caesar as Cassius

1993

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase as Lieutenant Delaney

1992		Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Cassius (voice)
1992		Virtual Murder

1990		Medics
1990		Nightbreed as Detective Joyce

1989		Loving Hazel as Mike
1989		The Church as Father Gus
1989		Behaving Badly
1989		Press Gang as Inspector Hibbert

1988		A Gentleman's Club
1988		Red Dwarf as Computer (voice)

1986		Casualty as Ric Griffin
1986		Casualty as Gordon Hutchens
1986		Drums Along Balmoral Drive as Wallace
1986		Highlander as Sunda Kastagir

1985		MacGyver as Inspector Rhodes
1985		Titus Andronicus as Aaron
1985		Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend as Kenge Obe

1984

The Bill

1983		Natural World as Narrator
1983		Wide Games as Corporal Chalkie

1982

The Comic Strip Presents... as Lieutenant Delaney

1981		A Midsummer Night's Dream as Philostrate
1981		Wolcott as Dennis St George

1979

The Knowledge as Campion

1978

The BBC Television Shakespeare as Aaron

1975

Rumpole of the Bailey

Crew

1989

Under African Skies: Ethiopia as Presenter