Harry Richardson (actor)

Harry Richardson (born 3 March 1993) is an Australian actor. After studying at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, he has starred in the television period series Doctor Thorne (2016), Poldark (2017–2019), and The Gilded Age (2022–present).

Harry Richardson
Born	Harry Richardson (1993-03-03) 3 March 1993 (age 32) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Alma mater	Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2011–present

Early life and career

Richardson was born in Sydney, Australia, before moving to London at the age of two.^[1] At the age of 12, he went back to Australia for high school at Sydney Grammar School, where he discovered his love for acting, and returned to the UK when he was 18. He did a short course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before enrolling at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth in 2012^[2][1] Before graduating from WAAPA in 2014, Richardson took a course with Ivana Chubbuck at the 16th Street Acting School in Melbourne.

Richardson's first film was Looking for Grace in which he starred as Jamie. He auditioned for the role of Frank Gresham in the TV series Doctor Thorne when visiting family in London and attended "an audition in the morning before [his] flight back to Australia".^[2] He then starred in Poldark, from the third season onward, as Drake Carne.^[3] Richardson dated fellow Poldark actor Eleanor Tomlinson for around one year, until they broke up in June 2018.^[4] He appeared in the 2017 film Dunkirk "for a second", but described the experience as a "teaser to a dream that I want to actualize".^[5] In 2019, he starred in the Australian TV series Total Control as Senator Irving's Adviser Jonathan Cosgrove.^[6] He has played Larry Russell in HBO's The Gilded Age since 2022.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Looking for Grace	Jamie
2017	Dunkirk	Private
2019	I've Been Thinking About What You Look Like	Maxwell	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Doctor Thorne	Frank Gresham	4 episodes
2017–2019	Poldark	Drake Carne	25 episodes
2018	Death in Paradise	Gabe Lee	Episode: "Meditated in Murder"
2019	Total Control	Jonathan Cosgrove	6 episodes
2022–present	The Gilded Age	Larry Russell	17 episodes

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Production company	Ref.
2017	Snake	Jarrod	BBC Radio 4	[7]

Theatre

Year	Play	Role	Production company	Ref.
2011	Suddenly Last Summer	Assistant Director	National Art School	[8]
2013	The Golden Age	Peter	WAAPA
	No Worries	Singer/Turbo Tongue
	As You Like It	Le Beau/Amiens
	Chekhov in Yalta	Chekov
	Hour of the Wolf	Mr Kreisler
2014	Arturo Ui	Old Dogsborough		[9]
	Festen	Lars		[8][10]
	Great Expectations	Herbert		[11]

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Project	Result	Ref.
2023	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series	The Gilded Age	Nominated	[12]