Nicholas Le Prevost

Nicholas Le Prevost is an English actor who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and graduated in 1973. Born in Wiltshire, he built a long career across television, radio and the stage. His small-screen and radio credits include Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, The Camomile Lawn, Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War and The Vicar of Dibley. His films include Clockwise, The Girl in a Swing (1988) and Shakespeare in Love. In 2002 he was nominated at the Laurence Olivier Awards for a supporting performance in a West End production of My Fair Lady, and that same year he played Benedick in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Much Ado About Nothing. Since 2003 he has played Jules Maigret, Georges Simenon's detective, for BBC Radio. He has also appeared at the National Theatre in Man and Superman, and is a director of The Wrestling School.