Hugh Bonneville

Renowned British actor Hugh Bonneville is best known for his role as Lord Grantham in the hit television and film series Downton Abbey, and as Mr. Brown in the Paddington film series.

Further screen credits include Notting Hill, Iris, The Monuments Men and BBC comedy series Twenty Twelve and W1A.

On stage, Bonneville has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in productions such as The Alchemistand The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in Habeas Corpus at the Donmar Warehouse, King Lear at the Old Vic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and more recently, Uncle Vanya in Berkeley and Washington D.C. Bonneville is a patron of the National Youth Theatre and has recently authored his first children’s book, Rory Sparks and the Elephant in the Room.