Strike Back: Andrew Lincoln as Hugh CollinsonStrike Back: Andrew Lincoln as Hugh CollinsonAndrew Lincoln trained at RADA, and he rose to fame playing a trainee lawyer with his head in the clouds in the hit BBC drama This Life. Success followed with a string of film and TV roles including Gangster No. 1 alongside Malcolm McDowell. In 2001, Lincoln began a three-year stint in the comedy-drama Teachers, which he went on to direct, receiving a BAFTA-nomination for his work.

In 2003, he lined-up among an ensemble of stars in Richard Curtis's romantic comedy Love Actually. Throughout his varied career, Lincoln has undertaken a number of critically acclaimed theatre roles, including, most recently, philanderer Dale in Jez Butterworth's Parlour Song. Later this year, Lincoln will star opposite Vanessa Paradis in the forthcoming French film, Heartbreaker.


SELECTED CREDITS

Film
2010              Jonathan, HEARTBREAKER
2006              Jamie, SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE
2006              Christopher Lovell, THESE FOOLISH THINGS
2003              Mark, LOVE ACTUALLY
2000              Maxie King, GANGSTER No.1
1999              Felix, HUMAN TRAFFIC

Television
2009              Edgar Linton, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Mammoth Screen
2009              Michael Collins, MOONSHOT, Dangerous Films Ltd.
2005-2006    Robert Bridge, AFTERLIFE, Clerkenwell Films
2004              DI Will Tomlinson, LIE WITH ME, Granada
2004              Barry Flint, WHOSE BABY?, ITV
2003              Alan King, CANTERBURY TALES: THE MAN OF LAW'S TALE, BBC
2001-2003    Simon Casey, TEACHERS, Channel 4
1996-1997    Egg, THIS LIFE, BBC/World Productions

Stage
2009               Dale, PARLOUR SONG, Almeida Theatre
2006               Ray Moss, THE LATE HENRY MOSS, Almeida Theatre
2000              Bruce, BLUE/ORANGE, National Theatre & West End
1999              HUSHABYE MOUNTAIN, Hampstead Theatre
1998              SUGAR SUGAR, Bush Theatre