Tom Ward

Tom Ward is a Welsh-born British actor who works in film, stage and television, and is known for his role as Dr. Harry Cunningham in the BBC crime drama Silent Witness, which he played from 2002 to 2012. Born in Swansea, he studied at Lincoln College, Oxford. In 1998 he played George Osborne in the BBC miniseries Vanity Fair, an adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, and in 2000 he appeared in Channel 4's Anna Karenina. He joined Silent Witness in 2002 as a forensic pathology student trained by the series protagonist Sam Ryan, and stayed with it until 2012, when his character moved to New York. Later television work includes the Doctor Who Christmas special The Snowmen (2012), an episode of Death in Paradise in 2013, Colonel Fitzwilliam in the BBC's Death Comes to Pemberley in December 2013, and the ITV drama Harry Price: Ghost-Hunter in December 2015.