13 Facts About Hugh Quarshie

Hugh Anthony Quarshie was born on 22 December 1954 and is a Ghanaian-born British actor.

Hugh Quarshie is known for stage roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, of which he has been a member since 1981 and an associate since 2005.

Hugh Quarshie has won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award and an Emmy Award.

Hugh Quarshie was born in Accra, Ghana, to Emma Wilhelmina and Richard Quarshie.

Hugh Quarshie's mother was of chiefly ancestry; her relatives currently serve as the chiefs of the Ghanaian village of Abii.

Hugh Quarshie emigrated with his family to the United Kingdom at the age of three.

Hugh Quarshie was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset and Dean Close School in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, before reading PPE at Christ Church, Oxford.

Hugh Quarshie had considered becoming a journalist before taking up acting.

Hugh Quarshie is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has appeared in many stage productions and television programmes, including the serial Behaving Badly with Judi Dench.

Hugh Quarshie attended the Star Wars fan event "Star Wars Celebration" in 1999.

Hugh Quarshie headed the cast of Michele Soavi's The Church as Father Gus, and played Aaron the Moor in the BBC Television Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

Hugh Quarshie's work includes the 2006 documentary Mega Falls of Iguacu, the 2009 adaptation of Small Island, and the 2010 BBC Wildlife series The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart.

The episode revealed that Hugh Quarshie is part of his country's old mixed-race elite as one of his ancestors, Pieter Martinus Johannes Kamerling, was a Dutch official on the Gold Coast.