John Hollingworth

John Hollingworth is an English actor from Keighley in West Yorkshire who trained at RADA after studying at Bradford Grammar School and Trinity College Dublin. He won early roles with the National Youth Theatre in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Threepenny Opera and The Master and Margarita, appearing opposite Matt Smith. Much of his career has been on stage, with leading roles in Making Noise Quietly, Our Country's Good, An Intervention and Earthquakes in London, and in 2011, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, he starred in The Deep Blue Sea opposite Maxine Peake. He was nominated for an Offie for The Sugar Syndrome in 2020, played Antony at the Globe in 2024 in a production honored at the UK Theatre Awards, and took the lead in Richard Bean's Reykjavik at the Hampstead Theatre. For radio he appeared in Number 10 and the comedies Deadheading and Modesty Blaise, and he has also written plays, among them Multitudes.