Ray Coulthard

British actor

Raymond Coulthard

Born|

Raymond Anthony Coulthard

(1968-09-03) 3 September 1968 (age 56)

Chester, Cheshire, England

Occupation| Actor
Years active| 1992–present
Partner| Jenna Russell
Children| 1

Raymond Anthony Coulthard (born 3 September 1968) is a British actor. He is best known for portraying Alasdair Sinclair in Emmerdale and restaurant manager James Schofield in Hotel Babylon.[1]

## Career

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Coulthard's television appearances include several costume dramas. He played Frank Churchill in the 1996 television adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Emma, Mr Glascock in the 2004 adaptation of He Knew He Was Right, and Miles Edgerton in Mr. Selfridge. In 2005, he appeared in the first series of Extras. He also appeared in the second series of Love Soup, and played Matt Strong in the TV series Casualty during 2010.[2]

Coulthard's film roles include The English Patient, The Best Man, and The Muppet Christmas Carol (in which he played a young Ebenezer Scrooge). He also voiced one of the main characters in the BBC Radio 4 Extra sitcom The Brothers.[3]

Coulthard has acted in many stage productions, especially Shakespeare plays, including work for the Royal National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse. From 2011 to 2012, he played Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure and Bishop Santa Cruz in Helen Edmundson's play The Heresy of Love for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He portrayed Lord Egerton in the second series of Mr Selfridge.

In spring 2015, he starred as King George VI alongside Jason Donovan as Lionel Logue in the Chichester Festival Theatre and Birmingham Repertory Theatre production of The King's Speech before touring the UK.[4]

In January 2017 he returned to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre to star in the French comedy What's in a Name? alongside Nigel Harman, Sarah Hadland, Jamie Glover and Olivia Poulet.

## Filmography

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### Film

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Year  | Film  | Role  | Notes

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1992  | The Muppet Christmas Carol | Young Scrooge  |
1996  | The English Patient | Rupert Douglas  |
Emma | Frank Churchill  | TV film
2000  | Eisenstein | Grisha  |
2004  | Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures | Archie Christie  | TV film
2005  | The Best Man | Chris  |
2007  | The Murder of Princess Diana | Anthony  | TV film
2018  | Red Joan | James Chadwick  |

### Television

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Year  | Film  | Role  | Notes

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1993  | Luv | Arthur  | 1 episode
1995  | Castles | Stephen Quin  | Series regular
Is It Legal? | Peter  | Episode: "Infatuation"
1996  | Bugs | Young Man  | Episode: "A Cage for Satan"
Rhodes | Neville Pickering  | Episode: "All the World's Gold"
2001  | The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells | Mark Radcliffe  | Mini-series
Masterpiece | Prince of Arragon  | Episode: "The Merchant of Venice"
2003  | Casualty | Guy Edwards  | Episode: "Last Man Standing"
2004  | Midsomer Murders | Lawrence Haggard  | Episode: "The Maid in Splendour"
He Knew He Was Right | Mr. Glascock  | Mini-series
Foyle's War | Mark Nicholson  | Episode: "The French Drop"
2005  | Casanova | Venetian Ambassador  | Mini-series
Extras | Mark  | Episode: "Ross Kemp & Vinnie Jones"
2006  | Emmerdale | Alasdair Sinclair  | 2 episodes
2006-2009  | Hotel Babylon | James Schofield  | Series regular
2008  | Emmerdale | Alasdair Sinclair  | Episode: "Death Becomes Her"
Love Soup | Simon  | Episode: "Integrated Logistics"
Masterpiece | Frank Churchill  | Episode: "Emma"
2010  | Casualty | Matt Strong  | 6 episodes
New Tricks | Gregory Hampton  | Episode: "Coming Out Ball"
2012  | Shakespeare: The King's Man | Duke Vincentio  | Mini-series
2013  | Call the Midwife | Captain Goodacre  | Episode: "Christmas Special"
2014  | Da Vinci's Demons | Jacob Pasha  | 3 episodes
2014–2015  | Mr Selfridge | Miles Edgerton  | Series regular
2016  | Father Brown | John Langton  | Episode: "The Star of Jacob"
2018  | The Royals | Martin Caine  | Episode: "Foul Deeds Will Rise"
Doctors | Nick O'Leary  | Episode: "A Man on a Mission"
2019  | The Rook | Deputy Commissioner Ian Barber  | Episode: "Chapter 1"
2020  | Silent Witness | DS Donald Hart  | Episode: "Seven Times"
2022  | Sister Boniface Mysteries | Charles Streatham  | Episode: "Scoop!"

## References

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1. ^ "Raymond Coulthard | TV Guide". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
2. ^ "Interview with Raymond Coulthard, Robert Boulter and Michael Maloney". BBC. 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
3. ^ BBC. "BBC - Drama - People Index Ray Coulthard". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
4. ^ "Ray Coulthard". www.whatsonlive.co.uk. Retrieved 11 November 2019.

## External links

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* Raymond Coulthard at IMDb

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