Much ado about nothing
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?”
Tom Hiddleston is Benedick and Hayley Atwell is Beatrice. Two of their generation’s finest actors collaborate with director Jamie Lloyd again in this savagely funny and beautifully tender battle of wits.
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Tom Hiddleston
Benedick
Tom Hiddleston
Benedick
For The Jamie Lloyd Company: Betrayal (Harold Pinter Theatre/ Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre – Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play and Evening Standard Theatre Award nominee for Best Actor).
Other theatre credits include: Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse – Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor), Ivanov and Othello (Donmar Warehouse), Cymbeline (Cheek by Jowl – Olivier Award for Best Newcomer) and The Changeling (Cheek by Jowl).
Television credits include: The Essex Serpent, Loki (People’s Choice Award for Male TV Star, Kid’s Choice Award for Favourite Male TV Star and Critic’s Choice Award for Best Actor in a Superhero Series), The Night Manager (Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television), Henry IV Parts 1&2 and Henry V (South Bank Sky Arts Award for Breakthrough performance), Return to Cranford, Wallander, Miss Austen Regrets, The Gathering Storm, Conspiracy and Nicholas Nickleby.
Film credits include: Loki in Marvel’s Thor, The Avengers (MTV Movie Awards for Best Villain and Best Fight), Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnorak (Empire Hero Award), Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Early Man, Kong: Skull Island, I Saw the Light, High-Rise, Crimson Peak, Tinker Bell and The Pirate Fairy, Muppets Most Wanted, Only Lovers Left Alive, Exhibition, The Deep Blue Sea, War Horse, Midnight In Paris, Archipelago and Unrelated.
Forthcoming projects include: The Life of Chuck, The Night Manager 2.
Hayley Atwell
Beatrice
Hayley Atwell
Beatrice
In 2018 Hayley was awarded the Guildhall Fellowship in recognition of her contribution to the arts.
For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Pride (Trafalgar Studios – Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress, WhatsOnStage Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play).
Other theatre credits include:> Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s Theatre – Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress), Measure for Measure (Donmar Warehouse), Dry Powder (Hampstead Theatre), The Faith Machine (Royal Court Theatre – Directed by Jamie Lloyd), A View from the Bridge (Duke of York’s Theatre – Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress), The Man of Mode (National Theatre), Major Barbara (National Theatre – Ian Charleson Commendation), Women Beware Women (RSC) and Prometheus Bound (Sound Theatre).
Television credits include: Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (voice), Heartstopper, Criminal, The Long Song, Howards End, Conviction, Agent Carter Series 1 & 2, Life of Crime, Black Mirror: Be Right Back series 2, Restless, Falcon: The Blindman of Seville, The Silent and the Dammed, Any Human Heart, Pillars of the Earth, The Prisoner, Mansfield Park, Ruby in the Smoke, Fear of Fanny and The Line of Beauty.
Film credits include: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Blinded by the Light, Christopher Robin, The Complete Walk: Cymbeline, Ant Man, Cinderella, Testament of Youth, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America – The Winter Soldier, Jimi: All Is by My Side, The Man, The Sweeney, I, Anna, Captain America-The First Avenger, The Duchess, Brideshead Revisited, How About You and Cassandra’s Dream.
Forthcoming projects include: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part Two and Rogue Trooper.
Mara Huf
Hero
Mara Huf
Hero
For The Jamie Lloyd Company: The Effect (National).
Theatre credits include: Childminder (Kiln); The True History of Bonnie and Clyde (Birmingham Repertory); Electra, Closer, Holy Day, La Ronde, Lord of the Flies, Pygmalion, Othello (Birmingham Conservatoire).
Film credits include: Death Do Us Part (Play Entertainment); The People We Hate at the Wedding (Amazon); Tetris (Apple TV).
Television credits include: Toast of Tinseltown (Objective Media); Storm (Treasure Hunt).
Training: Birmingham Conservatoire.
Mika Onyx Johnson
Borachio
Mika Onyx Johnson
Borachio
For the Jamie Lloyd Company: The Seagull (Harold Pinter); Cryano de Bergerac (Playhouse/ Harold Pinter/ Glasgow Theatre Royal/ BAM, NYC).
Theatre credits include: Pink Lemonade (Gate/ Edinburgh Fringe Festival/ Bush Theatre); As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe); Dear Elizabeth (Gate); Michael X (Almeida).
Television credits includes: What It Feels Like For A Girl (BBC Three); Newark, Newark (Balloon Entertainment); Screw (Channel 4); The Girlfriend Experience (Transactional Pictures).
Film credits includes: Dismantle Me (Spinster Films).
Writing credits includes: What It Feels Like For A Girl (BBC); My White Best Friend (Bunker); Pink Lemonade (Bush); Queer Upstairs (Royal Court); I’m Here (Pentabus).
Gerald Kyd
Don Pedro
Gerald Kyd
Don Pedro
For the Jamie Lloyd Company: The Seagull (Harold Pinter).
Theatre credits include: Further than The Furthest Thing (Young Vic); The Deep Blue Sea and The Meeting (Chichester Festival); Cherry Orchard, Children of The Sun, Three Winter, Blood and Gifts (National).
Film credit includes: And Mrs (Netflix); Tyger (Stave Hill Films); Muse (Fancy A Jam Pictures).
Television credits include: The Assassin (Amazon); The Choice (Netflix); Love Rat (Channel 5); Malory Towers, The Split, The Swarm, Ridley, Dr Who, Cold Feet, Harlots, Britannia, Unforgotten, Deep Water (BBC).
Video game credits: Necromunda: Hired Gun; Call of Cthulhu; Battlefleet Gothic 2; Assassin’s Creed, Ryse: Son of Rome; Grey Goo.
Training: LAMDA
Video game credits: Necromunda: Hired Gun; Call of Cthulhu; Battlefleet Gothic 2; Assassin’s Creed, Ryse: Son of Rome; Grey Goo.
Training: LAMDA
Forbes Masson
Leonato
Forbes Masson
Leonato
For The Jamie Lloyd Company: Macbeth, Richard III, The Ruling Class (Trafalgar); Dr Faustus (Duke of York’s).
Theatre credits include: Farm Hall (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street); Jekyll and Hyde (Lyceum); Magician’s Elephant Boy in the Dress, Macbeth, Hamlet, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Histories, As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet, Taming of the Shrew (Royal Shakespeare Company); Summer and Smoke (Almeida); Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory); King Lear (Liverpool Everyman).
Film credits include: The Road Dance (BBC).
Television credits include: The Crown (Netflix); As You Like It (CBeebies); Only Child, Crime, EastEnders, Red Dwarf, The High Life (BBC); Catastrophe (Avalon Television); Young Person’s Guide to Becoming a Rock Star (Channel 4).
Associate Artist with Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre Scotland, and co-writer of Victor and Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium (404ink).
Phillip Olagoke
Friar Francis
Phillip Olagoke
Friar Francis
For the Jamie Lloyd Company: Romeo & Juliet (Duke of York’s)
Theatre credits include: OKLAHOMA! (Wyndham’s); The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s); A Number (Old Vic); David Copperfield (Barn); Farewell Leicester Square (Townsend Productions); Hansel & Gretel (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Training: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Mason Alexander Park
Margaret
Mason Alexander Park
Margaret
Theatre credits include: American Idiot (Deaf West, Los Angeles); Cabaret (Kit Cat Club/ Playhouse); I am My Own Wife (Long Wharf); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (US Tour); The Rocky Horror Show (Bucks County Playhouse, Pittsburgh).
Film credits include: National Anthem (LD Entertainment).
Television credits include: Quantum Leap (NBC); The Sandman, Cowboy Bebop (Netflix); iCarly (Nickelodeon).
James Phoon
Claudio
James Phoon
Claudio
Theatre credits include: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë (National); Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Palace).
Television credits include: Bridgerton (Netflix), Wreck (BBC Three).
Animation credits include: JoJo & Gran Gran (BBC); Ninja Express (BBC); Warhammer 40K Pariah Nexus (Warhammer+); Warhammer 40K The Tithes (Warhammer+); Dodo (Sky).
Video Game credits include: Rise of the Ronin; Dragon’s Dogma 2; Black Myth: Wukong; Talos Principle 2; Evil West; Total War: Warhammer 3; Total War: Three Kingdoms; Desta: The Memories Between.
Training: Guildford School of Acting.
Tim Steed
Don John
Tim Steed
Don John
Theatre credits include: Jack Absolute Flies Again, Rocket to the Moon, (National); Ink (Almeida/ Duke of York’s); Merchant of Venice (Almeida); The Pride, Hero, Crossing Play (Royal Court); Salome (UK Tour); The Crucible (Royal Exchange); Duchess of Malfi, Volpone (Greenwich); Silverland (Arcola); Cigarettes & Chocolate (Kings Head); An Inspector Calls (Garrick).
Film credits include: One Life (See-Saw Films); The Phantom of the Open (Sony Pictures); Star Wars- The Last Jedi (Lucasfilm); Cruella (Disney+); Dead in a Week (Rather Good Films); The Death of Stalin (Main Journey); The Current War (TWF); The Imitation Game (Black Bear); Franklyn (Hanway).
Television credits include: Breeders (Sky); The Nevers (HBO); The Crown (Sony Pictures); A Very British Scandal, Wolf Hall, Twenty Twelve, Garrows Law (BBC One); Brexit: The Uncivil War, Fresh Meat, Peep Show, London Irish (Channel 4); A Thousand Blows (Disney+); Little Boy Blue, The Town, Great Fire, Poirot (ITV); Maigret, Miss Scarlet & The Duke (PBS); A Young Doctors Notebook (Sky).
Matt Ray Brown
Understudy Leonato & Friar Francis
Nathaniel Christian
Understudy Claudio & Borachio
Beth Elliott
Understudy Beatrice
Suzie McAdam
Understudy Hero & Margaret
Ed White
Understudy Benedick
