Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
June 9, 1968
Place of Birth:
Stepney, East London, England, UK
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Eddie Marsan
Biography
Edward Maurice Charles Marsan (born June 9, 1968) is an English actor. He won the London Film Critics Circle Award and National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Happy-Go-Lucky in 2008.
He has appeared in films such as Gangster No. 1 (2000), Ultimate Force (2002), V for Vendetta (2006), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Sixty Six (2006), Hancock (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009), War Horse (2011), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), The Best of Men (2012), and The World's End (2013). He also appeared as Terry in Showtime's series Ray Donovan (2013–2020), and as Mr Norrell in the BBC drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015).
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Back to Black | Mitch |
| 2024 | Midas Man | Harry Epstein |
| 2024 | Firebrand | Edward Seymour |
| 2023 | Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre | Norman |
| 2023 | Fair Play | Campbell |
| 2022 | Vesper | Jonas |
| 2022 | The Contractor | Virgil |
| 2022 | Ray Donovan: The Movie | Terry Donovan |
| 2022 | Choose or Die | Hal |
| 2022 | Charlotte | Albert Salomon (voice) |
| 2021 | Flag Day | Mr. Emmanuel |
| 2021 | The Virtuoso | The Loner |
| 2021 | Wrath of Man | Terry |
| 2020 | The Gentlemen | Big Dave |
| 2019 | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw | Professor Andreiko |
| 2019 | Hostage Radio | Jarvis Dolan |
| 2019 | The Professor and the Madman | Muncie |
| 2019 | Abigail | Jonathan Foster |
| 2019 | Pets United | Mayor Frank Stone |
| 2018 | Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle | Vihaan (voice) |
| 2018 | 7 Days in Entebbe | Shimon Peres |
| 2018 | Deadpool 2 | Headmaster |
| 2018 | White Boy Rick | Art Derrick |
| 2018 | Vice | Paul Wolfowitz |
| 2018 | Once Upon a Deadpool | Headmaster |
| 2017 | The Exception | Heinrich Himmler |
| 2017 | Atomic Blonde | Spyglass |
| 2017 | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Agency Man |
| 2017 | Their Finest | Sammy Smith |
| 2016 | A Kind of Murder | Marty Kimmel |
| 2016 | The Limehouse Golem | Uncle Tommy Farr |
| 2015 | Concussion | Dr. Steven DeKosky |
| 2014 | God's Pocket | Smilin' Jack Moran |
| 2014 | X+Y | Richard |
| 2014 | The One and Only Mike Leigh | Self |
| 2014 | Broadmoor - Inside Britain's Highest Security Psychiatric Hospital | Narrator |
| 2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer | Crawe |
| 2013 | Filth | Bladesey |
| 2013 | The World's End | Peter Page |
| 2013 | Still Life | John May |
| 2013 | Completing the Golden Mile: The Making of The World's End | Self |
| 2012 | Snow White and the Huntsman | Duir |
| 2012 | A Running Jump | Perry |
| 2012 | The Best of Men | Dr. Ludwig Guttmann |
| 2012 | I, Anna | D.I. Kevin Franks |
| 2012 | Walking the Dogs | The Intruder |
| 2012 | Boys On Film 8: Cruel Britannia | Carson (segment "Man and Boy") |
| 2011 | Tyrannosaur | James |
| 2011 | War Horse | Sgt. Fry |
| 2011 | Junkhearts | Frank |
| 2011 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Inspector Lestrade |
| 2010 | Heartless | Weapons Man |
| 2010 | London Boulevard | DI Bailey |
| 2010 | Man and Boy | Carson |
| 2009 | Sherlock Holmes | Inspector Lestrade |
| 2009 | The Disappearance of Alice Creed | Vic |
| 2009 | Faintheart | Richard |
| 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 | Jack Whitehead |
| 2009 | Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 | Jack Whitehead |
| 2008 | Happy-Go-Lucky | Scott |
| 2008 | God on Trial | Lieble |
| 2008 | Hancock | Red |
| 2008 | The 39 Steps | Scudder |
| 2008 | Me and Orson Welles | John Houseman |
| 2007 | I Want Candy | Doug Perry |
| 2007 | Grow Your Own | Little John |
| 2006 | Miami Vice | Nicholas |
| 2006 | The Illusionist | Josef Fischer |
| 2006 | V for Vendetta | Etheridge |
| 2006 | Sixty Six | Manny Rubens |
| 2006 | Mission: Impossible III | Brownway |
| 2005 | The Secret Life of Words | Victor |
| 2005 | Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman | James 'Tish' Corbitt |
| 2005 | Friends & Crocodiles | Butterworth |
| 2005 | Beowulf & Grendel | Father Brendan |
| 2005 | Shadow of the Sword | Fabio |
| 2005 | The New World | Eddie |
| 2005 | Match Point | Office Worker (uncredited) |
| 2004 | Vera Drake | Reg |
| 2004 | Quite Ugly One Morning | Stephen Lime |
| 2004 | Caught in the Act | Gary Grissom |
| 2004 | Post | Jack |
| 2004 | The Rocket Post | Heinz Dombrowsky |
| 2003 | 21 Grams | Reverend John |
| 2003 | Cheeky | Reg |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | Killoran |
| 2001 | The Bunker | Pfc Kreuzmann |
| 2001 | The Emperor's New Clothes | Louis Marchand |
| 2000 | Gangster No. 1 | Eddie Miller |
| 2000 | Peaches | Brian |
| 1999 | This Year's Love | Eddie |
| 1999 | Plastic Man | Liam Cooper |
| 1999 | B. Monkey | Young Thug |
| 1999 | Janice Beard 45 WPM | Mr Tense |
| 1999 | Mad Cows | Constable |
| 1998 | Crime and Punishment | Dimitri |
| 1998 | You Are Here | Nigel Pubis |
| 1997 | The Man Who Knew Too Little | Mugger #1 |
| 1988 | Didn't You Kill My Brother? | Youth in Cantonese Takeaway (uncredited) |
| 1988 | The Yob | Chip Shop Youth (uncredited) |
| Sherlock Holmes 3 | Inspector Lestrade |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Bombing of Pan Am 103 | Tom Thurman |
| 2025 | Reunion | Stephen Renworth |
| 2024 | Franklin | John Adams |
| 2024 | Supacell | Ray |
| 2023 | The Power | Bernie Monke |
| 2023 | The Winter King | Uther |
| 2022 | The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe | John Darwin |
| 2022 | Suspect | Alistair Underwood |
| 2022 | Heartstopper | Geoff Young |
| 2021 | Deceit | Paul Britton |
| 2021 | Ridley Road | Soly Malinovsky |
| 2017 | Women Who Kill | Narrator |
| 2017 | Urban Myths | Bob Dylan |
| 2015 | Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Mr Norrell |
| 2015 | River | Thomas Cream |
| 2015 | Galavant | Death |
| 2014 | Inside No. 9 | Nathaniel |
| 2013 | Ray Donovan | Terry Donovan |
| 2013 | Southcliffe | Andrew Salter |
| 2011 | Moby Dick | Stubb |
| 2010 | Dive | Will |
| 2010 | Thorne | Kevin Tughan |
| 2009 | Red Riding | Jack Whitehead |
| 2008 | Little Dorrit | Pancks |
| 2008 | Criminal Justice | Saul |
| 2008 | Merlin | The Manticore (voice) |
| 2007 | The Sarah Jane Adventures | Mr. White |
| 2007 | Would I Lie to You? | Self |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self |
| 2001 | The Lost Empire | Pigsy |
| 2000 | Second Sight | Liam Morrison |
| 1999 | The Vice | |
| 1995 | Kavanagh Q.C. | Ian Vincent |
| 1995 | Game On | Stoat |
| 1990 | The Piglet Files | Yob |
| 1986 | Casualty | Rick Grant |
| 1982 | The Comic Strip Presents... | Chip Shop Youth |
| 1982 | The Comic Strip Presents... | Youth in Chinese Restaurant |
| King & Conqueror | King Edward |