23 Facts About Nathaniel Parker

Nathaniel Parker was born on 18 May 1962 and is an English stage and screen actor best known for playing the lead in the BBC crime drama series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, and Agravaine de Bois in the fourth series of Merlin.

Nathaniel Parker was born in London, the youngest son of the businessman and one-time British Rail chairman Sir Peter Parker and Jillian, a GP and gardener, who wrote The Purest of Pleasures: Creation of a Romantic Garden.

Nathaniel Parker has two older brothers, Alan, chairman of Brunswick Group, and Oliver Parker, a film director, and a sister, Lucy.

Nathaniel Parker portrayed Bassanio in Peter Hall's 1989 production of The Merchant of Venice in London and on Broadway, co-starring with Dustin Hoffman.

Nathaniel Parker returned to the stage in 2013 for the production of The Audience, starring Helen Mirren, written by Peter Morgan and directed by Stephen Daldry.

Nathaniel Parker played King Henry VIII in Wolf Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2014, earning a 2015 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the London production and appearing in New York City when the show moved on to Broadway, where his performance received a Tony Award nomination.

Nathaniel Parker reprised the role at the Gielgud Theatre in 2021 for The Mirror and the Light, the third and final part of the trilogy.

Nathaniel Parker played Jack Weatherill in James Graham's This House at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in September 2016 and took the same role to the Garrick Theatre in the West End of London on 19 November 2016.

In 1989, Nathaniel Parker portrayed Jamie Jasper in the tenth episode of Inspector Morse.

Nathaniel Parker played Rawdon Crawley in a BBC version of Vanity Fair.

Four years later, Nathaniel Parker played Edward Rochester in John Duigan's 1993 film adaptation of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea.

From 2001 to 2007, Nathaniel Parker played the titular character in the long-running BBC1 crime series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, perhaps his best-known role.

Nathaniel Parker's co-star was Sharon Small as his assistant, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers.

Nathaniel Parker starred briefly in St Trinian's.

In 2011, Nathaniel Parker joined the cast of Merlin, to play the character of Agravaine de Bois for all 13 episodes of the fourth series.

Nathaniel Parker appeared in the independent comedy-drama The Perfect Host, alongside David Hyde Pierce.

In 2012, Nathaniel Parker was cast alongside YouTube reviewer Stuart Ashen in the Alienware-sponsored sci-fi thriller series The Proxy.

Nathaniel Parker appeared as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec in the film adaptation of Louise Penny's murder mystery novel Still Life, set in rural Quebec.

Nathaniel Parker starred in the TV series, Me and Mrs Jones broadcast in 2012.

In July 2015, Nathaniel Parker played the domestic bully Dicky Carmichael in the BBC's two-part television adaptation of Sadie Jones' debut novel The Outcast.

Nathaniel Parker is a voiceover artist and has done work on audiobooks, including Eoin Colfer's children's Artemis Fowl series, the five books in Charlie Higson's Young James Bond series, and The Gardens of The Dead by William Brodrick.

Nathaniel Parker read Mark Haddon's novel A Spot of Bother for BBC Radio Four's Book at Bedtime and played Axel in Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, first broadcast on BBC Radio Four Extra on 20 November 2011 and again on 12 November 2012.

Nathaniel Parker has voiced numerous video games and made many radio appearances as an interviewee and in radio dramas.