Raymond Coulthard

Raymond Coulthard is a British actor, born in Chester, who has moved between costume drama, sitcom and the stage. His television roles include Frank Churchill in a 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, Mr Glascock in the 2004 version of He Knew He Was Right and Miles Edgerton in Mr Selfridge, plus appearances in the first series of Extras and the second series of Love Soup, and he is also known for Alasdair Sinclair in Emmerdale. On film he portrayed the younger Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) and appeared in The English Patient (1996) and The Best Man (2005), and he voiced a main character in the BBC Radio 4 Extra sitcom The Brothers. Shakespeare has been central to his stage work at the Royal National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse, and for the Royal Shakespeare Company he played Measure for Measure's Duke Vincentio and Bishop Santa Cruz in Helen Edmundson's The Heresy of Love.