1. Richard Colin Brake was born on 30 November 1964 and is a Welsh actor.
34 Facts About Richard Brake
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Richard Brake subsequently appeared in numerous horror films such as Doom, Hannibal Rising, Mandy, and Barbarian, as well as his first lead role in Perfect Skin.
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Richard Brake is known for his lead role as Conrad Harlow on the first season of the Amazon Prime Video crime thriller series Absentia.
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Richard Brake then grew up in the states of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Ohio, attending Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
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Richard Brake studied acting under Sam Kogan, at his Academy of the Science of Acting and Directing in London, and Beatrice Straight, at the Michael Chekhov Studio in New York City.
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In 2005, Richard Brake finally achieved recognition from mainstream audiences in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins.
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Richard Brake played Joe Chill, the man responsible for murdering the parents of Bruce Wayne.
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Richard Brake appeared as the warped and perverted space Marine Dean Portman in Doom, a live action adaptation of the video game series, with Karl Urban and Dwayne Johnson.
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Richard Brake appeared as a hostile American man in Steven Spielberg's Munich, a cinematic retelling of the Munich massacre in the midst of the 1972 Olympic Games.
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In 2006, Richard Brake appeared in the music video for Muse's Knights of Cydonia, playing a villainous sheriff in a strange futuristic western.
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Richard Brake played paroled convict Bobby DeWitt in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia, a fictional account of the murder of actress Elizabeth Short.
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Richard Brake played Enrikas Dortlich, one of the war criminals who murders Mischa Lecter, the younger sister of psychiatrist-turned-cannibalistic killer Hannibal Lecter.
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Richard Brake garnered the role based on a personal recommendation to Zombie from actor Sid Haig.
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Richard Brake made a cameo in the thriller Cuckoo, which premiered at the Cambridge Film Festival on 25 September 2009.
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Richard Brake played Harry Green in the horror film The Incident, where he doesn't have any spoken dialogue throughout the film.
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Richard Brake appeared in the superhero film Thor: The Dark World, the sequel to Thor.
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The film became the biggest commercial success for Richard Brake's career, earning $644.6 million at the box office worldwide.
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Richard Brake had a recurring role as mobster Terry Mandel on Frank Darabont's neo-noir crime drama Mob City.
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From 2014 to 2015, Richard Brake portrayed the Night King on the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, appearing in the show's fourth and fifth seasons, most notably in the fifth-season episode "Hardhome", which received seven Emmy nominations.
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Richard Brake appeared in the action comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service, where he plays an unnamed man who interrogates Eggsy Unwin character as part of his training to become a spy for the intelligence agency Kingsman.
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Richard Brake made an appearance as a bar patron in the semi-biographical drama Set Fire to the Stars, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 23 June 2014.
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Richard Brake guest-starred on an episode of Grimm as a hunter with a penchant for severing a foot from his victims.
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Richard Brake co-starred with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham in the action comedy Spy, where he played Solsa Dudaev, a Chechen terrorist in pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
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Richard Brake had a recurring role as Russian mobster Vlad on the Showtime series Ray Donovan.
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Richard Brake played Doom-Head, a contract killer who participates in the annual titular game by murdering a group of victims who are kidnapped by goons.
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In 2017, Richard Brake appeared as Medved in Bitter Harvest and as Tarasov in The Death of Stalin.
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Richard Brake had a recurring role on the crime thriller series Absentia as Conrad Harlow, a wealthy banker who is released from prison after FBI agent Emily Byrne, who was hunting him down for the murders of several women, is found alive.
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Richard Brake played Bob Reid, a tattoo artist who, after the dissolution of his marriage as a result of being diagnosed with Parkinson's, kidnaps a Polish immigrant and tattoos her body in attempt to create one last piece of art before he dies.
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Richard Brake's performance was critically acclaimed and was regarded as the best of his career.
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Richard Brake subsequently won the Best Actor award at the First Glance Film Festival and the Vancouver Badass Film Festival for his performance.
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Richard Brake co-starred in the horror film Mandy, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 19 January 2018.
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Richard Brake later appeared as Rex in the western The Sisters Brothers.
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Richard Brake co-starred in the thriller film The Rhythm Section, which was released on 31 January 2020.
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Richard Brake played Valin Hess, an Imperial officer, in the seventh episode of the second season of The Mandalorian.