Nathaniel Parker

Nathaniel Parker most recently completed a role in the second series of PBS’s Maigret and performing An Evening of TS Eliot as well as featuring in the 2025 film Desperate Journey and the TV mini-series 12 Dates ‘Til Christmas. Nathaniel also recently played opposite Siân Phillips in Summer 1954, a pair of Terence Rattigan one-act plays.

Prior to this he appeared in Alma Mater at the Almeida Theatre and Ragdoll at Jermyn Street Theatre, and Rock and Roll at Hampstead. On screen he appeared in The Last Duel as Sir Robert de Thibouville, directed by Ridley Scott. He won an Olivier Award and was nominated for a Tony for his performance as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies and was again Olivier nominated for The Mirror and the Light.

Nathaniel trained at L.A.M.D.A. and the National Youth Theatre. His extensive theatre credits include productions for the RSC including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Every Man in his Humour, Richard II, The Rover, The Storm and The Winter’s Tale.

Other theatre credits include Wolf Hall / Bring Up The Bodies (RSC, Aldwych & Broadway); Romeo & Juliet (Young Vic), The Merchant of Venice; 50 Revolutions; Speed-The-Plow; The Audience; This House, An Ideal Husband; Operation Epsilon; Rock ‘N’ Roll; Separate Tables; The Browning Version; Ragdoll and The Mirror and the Light.

His film credits include Haunted Mansion; Stardust; Flawless; Into Thin Air; Beverly Hills Ninja; The Bodyguard; Othello and War Requiem.

His television credits include The Inspector Lynley Mysteries; The Beast Must Die; Bleak House; Vanity Fair; The Vineyard; Absolute Hell; Of Kinds and Prophets; The Outcast; Merlin; Lewis; Grantchester; Hotel Babylon and Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial.