Nicholas Asbury

Nicholas Asbury is a British actor and author from Hereford, trained at Dartington College of Arts after Hereford Cathedral School. He appeared at The Watermill Theatre in 1998, then spent 1999 to 2008 in the Royal Shakespeare Company's ensemble, and in 2009 he won an Olivier Award for his work in the company's complete cycle of Shakespeare's history plays. He performed with the all-male Shakespeare troupe Propeller, composed music for its shows, and kept a diary about appearing in Henry V and The Winter's Tale in 2011 and 2012 that ran as a series in The Guardian. His television roles include Churchill in 37 Days for the BBC, Mr. Angel in Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, and Jim in Alma's Not Normal, which won a BAFTA, along with The Inbetweeners, Chewing Gum and Sherlock. He wrote Exit Pursued by a Badger, which won the Michael Meyer Award in 2011, and the travel book White Hart, Red Lion.