Hugo Speer

Hugo Speer is an English actor and director who was born in Harrogate and trained at the Arts Educational Schools in London. He started out in television, with parts in McCallum, The Bill and Heartbeat, and had a small role in Bhaji on the Beach before his breakthrough as Guy in The Full Monty (1997). Roles in Swing (1999), Deathwatch (2002) and The Interpreter (2005), where he played Nicole Kidman's brother, followed, though television has supplied most of his work, among it Men Behaving Badly, Clocking Off, Bleak House and Father Brown, in which he played Inspector Valentine. He was Captain Treville in The Musketeers and Lucius in Britannia, plays DI David Bradford in London Kills, leads the BBC Radio 4 drama Stone as DCI John Stone, and made his directing debut in 2010 with the short film MAM.