Blake Adam Ritson was born on 14 January 1978 and is an English actor and director.
12 Facts About Blake Ritson
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Blake Ritson then attended Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied English and Medieval Italian, graduating in 2000.
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Blake Ritson is best known in recent years for playing King Edward III in the TV miniseries World Without End, the Duke of Kent in Upstairs Downstairs, Mr Elton in the 2009 BBC adaptation of Emma, Edmund Bertram in the 2007 ITV adaptation of Mansfield Park, Giles Vicary in the BBC series Red Cap and for portraying sidekick Robert Presley in A Touch of Frost.
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Blake Ritson played the part of Justin in The League of Gentlemen, Idek in God on Trial, and the comic lead in For Elsie, which he co-produced.
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Blake Ritson portrayed the main antagonist in David Goyer's Da Vinci's Demons.
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In 2013, Blake Ritson appeared as Colonel Brandon in Helen Edmundson's BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility.
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Blake Ritson had lent his voice to several other productions for the company.
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In 2022, Blake Ritson starred as Oscar Van Rijn in The Gilded Age on HBO.
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The Blake Ritson Brothers were selected for the front cover of Screen International's Stars of Tomorrow 2009.
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Blake Ritson is engaged to actress Hattie Morahan, whom he met at Cambridge University.
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Blake Ritson is the brother of Dylan Blake Ritson, with whom he directs and writes.
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Blake Ritson played the banjolele on Douglas Hodge's 2006 album Cowley Road Songs, which was recorded in four days at the Blue Moon Studios in Banbury.