Middlemarch

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Will Ladislaw Rory Alexander

Previous RSC includes: Hamnet (US Tour) 

Film includes: Black Palace, Inland, Untamed, Dark Windows, DarkGame 

Television includes: Pistol (FX / Hulu / Disney+), Then You Run (Sky), Alex Rider (Amazon), Anxious People (Netflix), Outlander: Blood of my Blood (Starz)

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Celia / Mary Garth Lizzie Annis

This is Lizzie’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York Theatre), The House of Bernada Alba (National Theatre) 

Television includes: Under Salt Marsh (Sky), Extraordinary (Disney+), The Witcher: Blood Origin (Netflix) 

Other: Lizzie was Screen International Star of Tomorrow 2022, and received Most Promising Newcomer at the Critics Circle Theatre Awards

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Understudy Emma Bown

This is Emma’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: Richard II (The Bridge Theatre), My Beautiful Laundrette (Leicester Curve), The Crown Jewels (Simon Friend Productions), The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre Productions), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (The Palace Theatre), Labour of Love (Noel Coward), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Harold Pinter Theatre), McQueen (Haymarket), Hay Fever (Duke of Yorks), Di and Viv and Rose, Vaudeville, Seduced, The Doctors Show, Hitler on Trial, State of Nature (TheatreScience), What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband (Arcola Studio), No-One Sees the Video, The Love Child (Red Shift), Les Femmes Savantes, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet (Original Shakespeare Co.), The BFG (Albery)

Television includes: Coronation Street, Emmerdale (ITV), Sex Education, The Last Bus (Netflix)

Film includes: Bob Marley: One Love, Landing Lake, To the Grave, History’s Ultimate Spies, The Red Bull Film, Summer Dark, De Sul, Playgrounds and Mindgames, The Sweet Rain

Radio includes: Strangers and Brothers (BBC)

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Farebrother / Sir James Chettam Gunnar Cauthery

This is Gunnar's RSC debut

Theatre includes: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End), Mack and Mabel (Chichester Festival Theatre / Tour), The House of Special Purpose (Chichester Festival Theatre), Dear England (National Theatre / West End), Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, The Suicide, This House and The White Guard (National Theatre), Nachtland (Young Vic), Saving Grace (Riverside Studios), All My Sons (Old Vic), Ravens: Spassky vs. Fischer, Wild Honey, Wonderland and The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (Manchester Royal Exchange), Privacy (Donmar Warehouse), The Winter’s Tale, Henry V (Propeller), A View From The Bridge (Edinburgh Royal Lyceum), Harvest (Oxford Playhouse) 

Television includes: Miss Scarlet, Dear England, Eastenders, Doctor Who, Casualty, The First Team, Mars, Genius: Einstein, The Tudors, Just William, The Demon Headmaster 

Film includes: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Eurovision, The Nest, War Horse, Benjamin Dove 

Radio includes: Home Front, Tommies, Watership Down, Reykjavík, Planet B, Wives and Daughters

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Mr Casaubon / Mr Garth Ian Drysdale

Previous RSC includes: Pilate, Sejanus: His Fall, Thomas More, Hamlet, Macbeth, Brand, Much Ado About Nothing, Anthony & Cleopatra

Theatre includes: Robota (Headlong), Twelfth Night (The Globe), The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Chichester Festival Theatre / West End), The Crucible (Sheffield Theatres), Backstairs Billy (Duke of Yorks), A Doll’s House Part 2, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Ivanov (Donmar), The Mirror and The Light (Gielgud), The Visit, Network, Blood and Gifts (National Theatre), The Night of The Iguana, All About Eve, Henry V (Noel Coward), Richard III, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Tempest (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Oedipus (Nottingham Playhouse / Liverpool Playhouse), On The Waterfront (Nottingham Playhouse), Rough Crossings (Headlong), Treasure Island (Tobacco Factory), Tear From A Glass Eye (Gate Theatre), Idée Fixe, The Beaux Stratagem (Bristol Old Vic), Blue Remembered Hills (Edinburgh Festival)

Television includes: Star City, Silo, Young Sherlock, The Diplomat, Buffering, Sitting in Limbo, Deep State, Casualty, Harlots, Doc Martin, Atlantis, Suffragette, Southcliffe, Fashion, The Verdict, Pulling, Time Gentleman Please, South Bank Show, The Bill

Film includes: Firebrand, Wicked Little Letters, My Policeman, Genius, Supernova, Tulip Fever, Suffragette

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Understudy Steven Dykes

This is Steven's RSC debut

Theatre includes: Dear England (National Theatre / UK Tour), Machinal, Pygmalion (The Old Vic), Player Kings (UK Tour), Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads (Minerva Theatre, Chichester), The Spoils (Arcola), Safety (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh). Richard III (Pleasance, London / European Tour), Uncle Vanya (Wresting School / European Tour), Victory, The Castle, Scenes from An Execution, Arcadia, Serious Money (Atlantic Theatre Stage II, New York)

Television includes: FBI: International, Casualty, EastEnders, Judge John Deed, Dalziel & Pascoe, Emmerdale, In Deep, This Is Personal

Film includes: Here, Worry Time

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Mr Vincy / Bambridge / Powderell Dave Fishley

Previous RSC includes: All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, Hamlet, Queen Anne

Theatre includes: Birdsong (UK Tour), Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-written (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Christmas Carol (Reading Rep), The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar (Perth Theatre / Scottish Tour), The Gift  (Eclipse Theatre), Our Country’s Good (Nottingham Playhouse), Macbeth (Theatre Severn), Of Mice and Men, Treasure Island (Birmingham Rep), The Taming of the Shrew (Southwark Playhouse), Rough Crossings (Headlong), The Electric Hills (Liverpool Everyman), Macbeth (Out of Joint), The Odyssey, Paradise Lost (Bristol Old Vic), Dido, Queen of Carthage (Shakespeare's Globe), The Special Relationship (Theatre Royal York), Crime & Punishment in Dalston (Arcola Theatre), The Nativity (Young Vic), Twelfth Night (Nuffield Theatre), Marat / Sade (National Theatre), Now You Know (Hampstead Theatre), Silverface / Ballad of Wolves (Gate Theatre), Asylum! Asylum! (Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Smoke (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Macbeth / The Tempest (English Shakespeare Company) 

Television includes: EastEnders, Moses Jones, Casualty, Doctors, Holby City, Judge John Deed, Between the Lines (BBC), Buried (Channel 4), A Touch of Frost, The Bill (ITV)

Film includes: Kinoki Witch Boy, Wasteland, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Twice Upon a Yesterday, The Fifth Element, Solitaire for 2

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Mr Brooke / Featherstone / Raffles Peter Forbes

Previous RSC includes: Much Ado About Nothing

Theatre includes: Summerfolk, Coriolanus, Jack Absolute Flies Again, Follies, Our Country's Good, The Observer, Afterlife, Never So Good, Two Weeks with the Queen (National Theatre), The James Plays, Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland), Singin' in the Rain, Mamma Mia!, Henceforward... (West End), Allelujah! (Bridge Theatre), How To Hold Your Breath (Royal Court), The Same Deep Water as Me (Donmar), Churchill in Moscow, Winner Takes All, A Journey to London, Adam Bede (Orange Tree), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, My Dad's A Birdman (Young Vic), The Winter’s Tale, Troilus & Cressida (Shakespeare's Globe), La Cage Aux Folles, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest (Regent’s Park), Assassins, Way Upstream, A Small Family Business, A Word From Our Sponsor (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Scent of Roses, A Number, Educating Agnes (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh), The Contingency Plan (Sheffield Theatres), A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (Nottingham Playhouse / Alexandra Palace), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (ETT / Leicester Curve)

Television includes: Traces (Alibi / BBC), Towards Zero, Poldark, EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City, Doctors, The First Men in the Moon, Berkeley Square (BBC), Stephen, Manhunt, Victoria, Endeavour, Little Devil, Bad Girls, The Bill, A Touch of Frost, Taggart (ITV), King Lear (Amazon), The Crown (Netflix), The Promise, The Government Inspector, The English Revolution (Channel 4), Walking on the Moon (United Film and Television Productions), The Stalker’s Apprentice (Scottish Television) <br bcx0"=""> <br bcx0"="">Films include: Judy, The Children Act, The Wife, Modern Life is Rubbish, Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?, Wilde, Blue Ice

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Fred Vincy Ebenezer Gyau

This is Ebenezer’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Assata Taught Me (Riverside Studios), G (Royal Court Theatre), Dear England (National Theatre) 

Television includes: Amandaland (BBC), Suspect (Disney), Black Mirror (Netflix) 

Film includes: County Lines

Training: Guildhall School of Music and Drama (2023) 

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Understudy Mackenzie Heynes

This is Mackenzie’s RSC debut 

Theatre includes: Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (Mischief International), Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall), In Praise of Love (Jermyn Street Theatre)  

Trained at: Guildhall School of Music and Drama

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Bulstrode / Trumbull John Hodgkinson

Previous RSC includes: Titus Andronicus (West End), The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Provoked Wife, Venice Preserved, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Love’s Labour’s Won

Theatre includes: Dear England (National Theatre/Prince Edward), The Country Wife, Aristo (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Ferryman (Royal Court), The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court), Hangmen (Royal Court / Broadway), Orson’s Shadow (Southwark Playhouse), Donkey’s Years (Kingston Rose), The Libertine (Glasgow Citizens), White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Live Theatre Newcastle), A Walk-on Part (Live Theatre Soho / Arts), His Dark Materials, Uncle Vanya, Murmuring Judges, Racing Demon (Birmingham Rep), Hapgood (Birmingham Rep / West Yorkshire Playhouse), Absurdia, The Front Page (Donmar), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew (Regent’s Park), Best of Enemies (Noel Coward)

Film includes: Napoleon, Heart of Lightness, Leave to Remain, Skyfall, Firelight

Television includes: Dear England, Life After Life, Catherine the Great, Red White and Blue, VictoriaWitless, The Escape Artist, Whitechapel, Peep Show, Silk, Fallout, Heartbeat; Broken News, Brief Encounters, My Family, Chambers, Kiss Me, Kate, People Like Us

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Mrs Bulstrode / Mrs Garth / Lady Chettam / Mrs Waule / Mrs Dollop / Tantripp Penny Layden

Previous RSC includes: Hamnet (USA Tour), The Tempest, Roberto Zucco, Measure for Measure 

Theatre includes: Coven (Kiln), Pygmalion, The Lorax, Cinderella (Old Vic), The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre / West End), London Tide, Paradise, Jellyfish, Macbeth, My Country: A Work in Progress, Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State, An Oak Tree, Everyman, Edward II, Table and Timon of Athens (National Theatre), Medea (Soho Place), A Christmas Carol (Rose, Kingston), Cleft (Rough Magic / Galway Festival), Bright Phoenix (Liverpool Everyman), Beryl (West Yorkshire Playhouse), 66 Books (Bush), Lidless (Trafalgar Studios / Hightide / Edinburgh), Draw Me Close, Vernon God Little and The Art of Random Whistling (Young Vic), The Bacchae, Mary Barton, Electra and Mayhem (Manchester Royal Exchange), Dancing at Lughnasa (Birmingham Rep), The Spanish Tragedy (Arcola), Romeo and Juliet, The Antipodes and Hamlet (Shakespeare's Globe), Comfort Me With Apples (Hampstead), Assassins (Sheffield Crucible), Seasons Greetings and Popcorn (Liverpool Playhouse), The Laramie Project (West End), A Passage to India, The Magic Toyshop and Jane Eyre (Shared Experience), Maid Marian and her Merry Men (Bristol Old Vic)

Television includes: Supacell, Father Brown, Belgravia, My Country: A Work in Progress, Grantchester, Dark Angel, EastEnders, Prisoners' Wives, Call the Midwife, Land Girls, Sirens, South Riding, Silent Witness, Poppy Shakespeare, Bad Mother’s Handbook, Waterloo Road, No Angels, Murphy’s Law, Fat Friends, Outlaws, M.I.T and Casualty

Film includes: Broken, The Libertine

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Rosamond Vincy Emma McDonald

Previous RSC includes: The Constant Wife

Theatre includes: Foreverland (Southwark Playhouse), Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night (Watermill Theatre, UK Tour and International Tour), The Sweet Science of Bruising (Wilton’s Musical Hall), Pride and Prejudice (Sheffield Crucible Theatre), The Picture of Dorian Grey (The Watermill Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Iris Theatre), Antigone, Tribes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Gut Girls, Stags and Hens (Nottingham New Theatre), Jerusalem (Nottingham New Theatre / NSDF), The Comedy of Errors (Fine Frenzy Theatre Company / Nottingham New Theatre), Lysistrata (Lakeside Arts Centre)

Film includes: Low Rider, Layla, 7 Keys, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Here We Are (Short film), The Everlasting Club (Short film), Landfall, Get Luke Lowe, The Present Times

Television includes: The Serpent Queen, Moonhaven, The Chelsea Detective, Queens of Mystery

Trained at: Science degree at the University of Nottingham

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Mrs Vincy / Mrs Mawmsey / Mrs Abel Anita Reynolds

This is Anita’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Liverpool Everyman), Backstroke (Donmar Warehouse), The Comedy of Errors, Bartholomew Fair, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare’s Globe), Twelfth Night (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Romeo and Julie (National Theatre / Sherman Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (ETT / Leeds Playhouse / Rose Theatre), A Monster Calls (Old Vic / Bristol Old Vic / US Tour), Ear For Eye (Royal Court Theatre), Absolute Hell (National Theatre), Hang (Run Amok / The Other Room), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Arabian Nights, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, Horrible Histories (Sherman Theatre), Speechless (Shared Experience / Sherman Cymru), The Move (Made in Wales), Carers (Turning Point Theatre Co), Cinderella (Unicorn Theatre), Forbidden Fruit (Nottingham Roundabout Theatre), Wishful Thinking (Hijinx Theatre), Dealing With Feelings (London Bubble Theatre), How High Is Up / Mirror Mirror (Theatre Centre) 

Television includes: Better Later, The Party, The Rapture, Deian a Loli, The Light in the Hall, Somewhere Boy, The Pembrokeshire Murders, In My Skin, Rellik, Keeping Faith, Casualty, Stella, Gwaith Cartref, Talking to the Dead, Being Human, Caerdydd, Belonging, Dau Dy a Ni, Nice Day for a Welsh Wedding, Doctors, The Story of Tracy Beaker, Dose, Bay College, Holby City, Nuts and Bolts, Pobol y Cwm, The Bench, The Hull Project

Film includes: I Used to Be Famous, Mother’s Day, G Flat, Wild Geese, Telling Tales, Sweet 16, Rain, Paradise Grove

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Lydgate Andrew Richardson

Previous RSC includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Theatre includes: Uncle Vanya (The Orange Tree), Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre) 

Television includes: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon), Ponies (Peacock), Extrapolations (Apple TV), Triage (Syfy), The Last O.G (TBS)

Film includes: Daughter of the Bride, The Independent, Killer Among Us, Martin Eden, A Call to Spy.

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George Eliot / Mrs Cadwallader Amanda Root

Previous RSC includes: Troilus and Cressida, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Seagull, Some Americans Abroad, The Man of Mode, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Seagull

Theatre includes: The House of Bernarda Alba (Lyric Hammersmith), King Lear, Conversations After a Burial, Enemies (Almeida), The Norman Conquests (Old Vic / Broadway), The Deep Blue Sea, The Chalk Garden (Chichester Festival Theatre), Jumpy (Duke of Yorks), The Herd (Bush Theatre), The Country (Arcola Theatre), Donkey Heart (Trafalgar Studios), Racing Demon (Theatre Royal, Bath), Richard II (Bridge Theatre)

Television includes: The Blame, Professor T, Baby Reindeer, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light, Lazarus, The Sixth Commandment, The Capture, Dalgliesh, The Sister, You and Me, Vera, Patrick Melrose, Unforgotten, Silent Witness, Breaking the Code, Anna Karenina, The Forsyte Saga, Daniel Deronda, Foyle’s War, Mortimer’s Law, Love on a Branch Line, The Buddha of Suburbia, Little Britain, Love Again, The Robinsons, The Impressionists, Poirot

Film includes: Persuasion, Jayne Eyre, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith, The Black Prince, The Iron Lady, Summerland, Their Finest, Allelujah, Love of Your Life, Life Goes On

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Dorothea Brooke Nia Towle

Previous RSC includes: Hamlet

Theatre includes: Stereophonic, The Ocean At The End of the Lane (Duke of York's Theatre), A View From The Bridge (Theatre Royal Haymarket / Theatre Royal Bath), The Crucible (Gielgud Theatre)

Film includes: Persuasion,

Television includes: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Trained at: Guildhall School of Music & Drama

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Understudy Molly Watton-Williams

This is Molly’s RSC debut

Theatre while training includes: The Welkin, Deposit (Bristol Old Vic), The Watsons (The Station Theatre)

Radio includes: Don’t Leave Me This Way (reformradio / Bristol Old Vic) 

Trained at: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School 

Company Manager Francesca Finney | Stage Manager Sarah Caselton Smith | Deputy Stage Manager Mary O'Hanlon | Assistant Stage Manager Jinwen Chen

The RSC Acting Companies are generously supported by The Gatsby Charitable Foundation