John Hopkins

John Hopkins is an English actor from Luton, Bedfordshire, who studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and was spotted by the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he had his first repertory season in 2001. Television offers followed in 2002, and his breakthrough came as Detective Sergeant Dan Scott in Midsomer Murders, a part he played from 2004 to 2005. He then returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing Caesar opposite Patrick Stewart in Antony and Cleopatra, and has taken stage roles in The 39 Steps, Holy Warriors and Much Ado About Nothing. On screen he has appeared as Lowell in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Sir Francis Basset in Poldark (2017 to 2018), and he voiced Erend in the video game Horizon Zero Dawn (2017), earning two award nominations. In 2018 The Guardian described him as one of the best Shakespearean actors of the day.