Arthur Darvill

Arthur Darvill is an English actor, composer and musician who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Born in Birmingham in 1982, he began his professional stage career in Terre Haute at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a performance that brought a Best Newcomer nomination at the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Awards. He made his television acting debut in 2008 in He Kills Coppers and later played Edward Tip Dorrit in Little Dorrit. He played Rory Williams, the Eleventh Doctor's companion, in Doctor Who from 2010 to 2012, and appeared in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010). He was Rev. Paul Coates in Broadchurch from 2013 to 2017 and Rip Hunter in Legends of Tomorrow from 2016 to 2018 and in 2021. He composed music for theater, including Che Walker's The Frontline, and on stage he took the lead role in the musical Once and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Oklahoma!.