Blake Ritson

Blake Ritson is an English actor who also works as a screenwriter and director of short films. Born in London, he acted on stage and screen as a student at Cambridge, appearing at the National Theatre in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. He played Edmund Bertram in Mansfield Park (2007), Mr Elton in the BBC's Emma, the Duke of Kent in Upstairs Downstairs, King Edward III in World Without End, and Oscar Van Rhijn in HBO's The Gilded Age. His other credits include Red Cap, A Touch of Frost, The League of Gentlemen, and the main antagonist in Da Vinci's Demons. He played Colonel Brandon in a 2013 radio adaptation of Sense and Sensibility for BBC Radio 4, and has voiced parts for Big Finish. With his brother Dylan he writes and directs shorts, among them Out of Time, which took the top audience prize at the first CON-CAN Movie Festival, and Love Hate, honored at the Palm Springs International Shortsfest.