About
David Yelland plays Henry.
Training: David read English at Cambridge and began his acting career with three years at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre.
For Original Theatre Company: The Habit of Art (2018).
Theatre: includes Phaedra Britannica, Hamlet, John Gabriel Borkman, The Shoe Makers Holiday, Summer and Major Barbara (National Theatre); A Patriot for Me (Haymarket and Los Angeles); Time and the Conways, The Merchant of Venice and Rumours (Chichester). For Peter Hall Company: An Ideal Husband (Haymarket and Broadway); Waste, The Seagull and King Lear (Old Vic); The Misanthrope and Major Barbara (Piccadilly); Cuckoos (Gate and Barbican) and As You Like It (Bath and US tour). Other theatre credits include: Deathtrap (Garrick); The Deep Blue Sea (Haymarket); The Rules of the Game (Almeida); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Strand); The Seagull (Orange Tree); The Importance of Being Earnest (Old Vic); Richard III (Savoy Clarence Derwent Award); The Jew of Malta (Almeida); God Only Knows (Vaudeville); Life x3 (Savoy); Pirandellos Henry IV (Donmar); Man and Boy (Duchess); Toscas Kiss (Orange Tree); Troilus and Cressida (Edinburgh festival and RST Stratford); For Services Rendered (The Watermill); Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Festival Theatre, Gielgud Theatre, Prince of Wales Theatre, Toronto); The Circle, For King and Country (Both at Chichester Festival Theatre); Mrs Warrens Profession (Theatre Royal Bath, tour and West End); Single Spies (The Watermill); Henry IV (Peter Hall Company, Theatre Royal Bath); Uncle Vanya (Print Room); A Marvellous Year for Plums (Chichester Festival Theatre); An Ideal Husband, Mrs Warrens Profession (Gate Theatre Dublin); Taken at Midnight (Chichester Festival Theatre and Theatre Royal Haymarket); A Winters Tale (Shakespeares Globe); All Our Children (Jermyn Street Theatre) and Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall).
Television: includes David Copperfield, Star Quality, The Bretts and Rumpole of the Bailey. More recently Waking the Dead, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Line of Beauty, Rocketman, Poirot, Love Soup, Midsomer Murders, Spooks, Foyles War, Eastenders, Law and Order UK, Bones, The Crown, Reg, Father Brown and Endeavour.
Film: includes Happy End (directed by Michael Haneke); Hunter Killer, Coriolanus (directed by Ralph Fiennes); Michael Morpurgos Private Peaceful (directed by Pat OConnor) and Chariots of Fire