
Age: 28
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Adam Hugill is an award-winning actor from Yorkshire who starred in the BAFTA-winning 2022 BBC drama series ‘Sherwood’ opposite David Morrissey and Adeel Akhtar. He played Scott Rowley, a serial killer who terrorised a Nottinghamshire village with a crossbow. He reprised the role in the acclaimed second series in 2024. He gained industry recognition when winning Best Actor in a Musical at The Stage Debut Awards for ‘Standing at the Sky’s Edge’ when it premiered at the Sheffield Crucible in 2019. More recently on stage he played Harry Maguire in the National Theatre’s 2024 production of Olivier Award-winning play ‘Dear England’ by James Graham, as well as major roles in award-winning historical play '1536' at The Almeida in 2025 and in ‘Reykjavik’ at the Hampstead Theatre in late 2024. His breakthrough role was in 2019 when he landed the role of Private Atkins in Sam Mendes’ epic war film ‘1917’, which went on to win 3 Academy Awards, 2 Golden Globes and 7 BAFTAs. The British film also starred Colin Firth, George Mackay and Andrew Scott. 2025 saw him in a major role in the BBC One adaptation of Agatha Christie’s ‘Towards Zero’, which also starred Anjelica Houston, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Matthew Rhys. He played Mac, the mysterious gentleman's valet to Oliver Jackson-Cohen's character. Other film credits include ‘How to Stop a Recurring Dream’, which won a number of awards on the independent film circuit, and the gothic horror film ‘The Banishing’. In 2022 he was the voice of Rintrah, a minotaur-like being, in Marvel Studios’ superhero film ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’, which starred Benedict Cumberbatch. In 2021 he starred as leading character Constable Carrot Ironfoundersson in BBC America’s action-fantasy series ‘The Watch’, based on the book by Terry Pratchett. Additional TV credits include BBC drama series ‘World on Fire’ and DC Comics crime action series ‘Pennyworth’. Adam hails from Doncaster and speaks with a light South Yorkshire accent which he can strengthen or lose as required. He is comfortable with most Northern accents, in particular East Yorkshire & Manchester, and other accents in his repertoire include Scottish, General American, London and West Country. He uses a neutral or RP accent in much of his acting and has an excellent Nottingham accent which he learned for his role in Sherwood.

Adam Hugill

William Taurens
for William Taurens in Marvel Studios' Scarlet Witch
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In the aftermath of the Secret Wars, although the fabric of the universe has been mended, deep scars remain; seeking atonement for her past in this new order, Wanda Maximoff operates an occult shop named "The Last Door" in a shadowy corner of New York, serving as a sanctuary for the desperate with magical afflictions. However, when a series of brutal murders targeting magic users begins to plague the city, FBI Agent Cleary is forced to knock on Wanda's door, dragging her into a dangerous investigation lurking within the shadows. As the investigation deepens, the duo confronts Nicola Zosimos (Hexfinder), a technological zealot who views magic as a disease to be eradicated, and the ancient entity Rio Vidal (Death), who has come to claim Wanda's soul. Caught between Hexfinder’s deadly anti-magic technology and Rio Vidal’s inevitable summons, Wanda must fight a physical battle for survival while proving that "The Last Door" is the final stand not only for those she protects but for her own redemption as well.