Jamie Parker Biography

Jamie Parker is an English actor and singer.

Biography

Jamie Parker was born on 14 August 1979, and attended Loretto School before training in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from which he graduated in 2002. Parker originated the role of Scripps in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys. He was involved in The History Boys from the play's first reading, initially reading the part of Rudge before taking on the role of Scripps in the original London stage production as well as in the Broadway, Sydney, Wellington and Hong Kong productions and radio and film versions of the play. Parker put his musical talents to use in The History Boys, playing piano and singing in several scenes. His other National Theatre credits include a 2008 revival of The Revenger's Tragedy.

In 2008 he appeared as Werner von Haeften in the film of the historical thriller Valkyrie. He can also be seen in the BBC/HBO production of Parade's End.

In 2011 he appeared at Chichester in Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with fellow History Boy, Samuel Barnett"?the production subsequently moved to London for a West End engagement. In the autumn of 2012 he appeared as Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. In the first part of 2013 he appeared in the Menier Chocolate Factory production of Proof and in Candida at the Theatre Royal, Bath.

Shakespeare

In 2009 he played Oliver in As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe.

He returned in 2010 to play Prince Hal in both Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2. His musical talents were further exhibited (briefly) when he played a wooden recorder in an early tavern scene.

During the spring of 2012 he toured the UK in the Globe production of Henry V, a production which subsequently played at Shakespeare's Globe on London's Southbank during the summer of 2012 thereby completing his traversal of the Prince Hal story arc in Shakespeare's history plays at the Globe. Parker was also featured in two of the six episodes of the BBC Four's production Shakespeare Uncovered (2012). Each episode explored and revealed the extraordinary world and works of William Shakespeare and the still-potent impact they have today. The series combined interviews with actors, directors and scholars, along with visits to key locations, clips from some of the most celebrated film and television adaptations, and illustrative excerpts from the plays staged specially for the series at Shakespeare's Globe in London.

Personal life

He was married in 2007 to actress Deborah Crowe with whom he has one child, a son named William.

Selected credits

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Notes
2002	After the Dance	Peter	Oxford Playhouse, Oxford
2003	The Coffee House	Eugenio	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
	Holes in the Skin	Dominic
	The Gondoliers	Giuseppe Palmieri		musical
	Between the Crosses	Ian	Jermyn Street Theatre, London
2004	Singer	various roles	Tricycle Theatre, London
2004-6	The History Boys	Scripps	Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre, South Bank (2004"5) Lyric Theatre, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2006) St. James Theatre, Wellington (2006) Sydney Theatre, Sydney (2006) Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway (2006)
2008	The Revenger's Tragedy	Hippolito	Olivier Theatre, Royal National Theatre, South Bank
2009	As You Like It	Oliver	Shakespeare's Globe, Southwark
	A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine	Thomas Jefferson/Timothy Matlack
2010	My Zinc Bed	Paul Peplow	Royal Theatre, Northampton
	Henry IV, Part 1	Prince Hal	Shakespeare's Globe, Southwark
	Henry IV, Part 2
2011	Racing Demon	Rev Tony Ferris	Sheffield Crucible
	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead	Guildenstern	Chichester Festival Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket	Alongside Samuel Barnett, fellow 'History Boy'
2012	Henry V	Henry V	Shakespeare's Globe, Southwark
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Brick	West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
2013	Proof (play)	Hal	Menier Chocolate Factory
	Candida (play)	Reverend James Morell	Theatre Royal, Bath

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Station	Notes
2007	Life Class	Paul Tarrant	BBC Radio 4	Ten 15 min episodes
2012	Frankenstein	Victor Frankenstein	BBC Radio 4	2 episodes

Television

Year	Film	Role	Network	Notes
2007	American Experience	Philip Hamilton	PBS	Series 19, Episode 15 "Alexander Hamilton"
	Maxwell	Farquhar	BBC	TV film
	Silent Witness	Alan Peters	BBC	Series 11, Episodes 5"6 "Hippocratic Oath"
2009	Horne and Corden		BBC	Series 1, Episode 4
2010	Van Gogh: Painted with Words	Theo van Gogh	BBC	TV film
2011	The Hour	Peter Darrall	BBC	Series 1, Episode 1 (Appears in Episodes 2 and 4 on a recorded tape)
2012	Silk	Captain Cassidy	BBC	Series 2, Episode 2
	Shakespeare Uncovered: Derek Jacobi on Richard II	As himself and Richard II	BBC Four	Episode 3 of 6
	Shakespeare Uncovered: Jeremy Irons on the Henrys	Prince Hal/Henry V	BBC Four	Episode 5 of 6
	Parade's End	Brownlie	BBC Two	Episodes 2"3

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2006	The History Boys	Scripps
2008	Valkyrie	Werner von Haeften