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Richard Madden (born 18 June 1986) is a Scottish actor. He was cast in his first role at age 11 and made his screen acting debut in 2000. He later began performing on stage whilst a student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2007, he toured with Shakespeare's Globe company as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, a role he reprised in the West End in 2016. Madden rose to fame by portraying Robb Stark in the fantasy drama series Game of Thrones from 2011 to 2013. Madden subsequently played Prince Kit in the romantic fantasy film Cinderella (2015) and Italian banker Cosimo de' Medici in the first season of the historical fiction series Medici (2016). In 2018, he gained acclaim for his performance as a police officer in the thriller series Bodyguard, for which he won a Golden Globe Award. The following year, Madden was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time. He had supporting roles as music manager John Reid in the biopic Rocketman and Lieutenant Blake in the war film 1917. He has since starred as Ikaris in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals (2021) and as a spy in the action thriller Citadel (2023–present). Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Madden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Richard Madden
King Henry II (historical)
for King Henry II (historical) in The Canterbury Rose
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Set in 12th-century England during the turbulent reign of Henry II — the Plantagenet king whose conflict with Thomas Becket is reshaping the relationship between crown and church — The Canterbury Rose follows Edmund de Vere, 27, a Black man raised by the powerful Norman family of Vere, one of the most influential noble houses of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy. Edmund is entirely of the Anglo-Norman world: he speaks Norman French and English, has been educated in the ecclesiastical tradition, and has chosen a career in the emerging royal legal system rather than the sword-path his family expected. When Henry II begins his great legal reforms — the Assize of Clarendon — Edmund is among the young lawyers and scholars implementing the new royal justice in circuit courts. He is also betrothed to Mathilde de Clare, a noblewoman of the powerful Clare family, in a marriage that is political, mutually respectful, and gradually becomes the series' central love story as two people who chose their own paths discover that the paths converge. Episode 1 — The Circuit Edmund on the royal justice circuit in the English countryside, administering the new Assize of Clarendon. The marriage arrangement arrives by messenger. He reads it on horseback. Episode 5 — The Library at Clare Edmund and Mathilde reading the same legal text together without having planned to. The scene in which they realize they are the same kind of mind. Episode 10 — The Canterbury Road Series finale: The Becket crisis comes to a head. Edmund and Mathilde make a legal and moral choice that costs them their proximity to royal favor and earns something more valuable.
