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Adrian Dunbar (born 1 August 1958) is an Irish actor, director and singer, known for his television and his theatre work. Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film Hear My Song, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards. He is also known for playing 'Ted Hastings' in the BBC show Line Of Duty.[1]

Adrian Dunbar
Dunbar in 2014
Born (1958-08-01) 1 August 1958 (age 64)
NationalityIrish
Occupation
  • Actor
  • screenwriter
  • director
  • singer
Years active1980–present
Notable workAshes to Ashes (2009)
Line of Duty (2012–present)
Spouse
Anna Nygh
(m. 1986)

Since 2012, he has played Superintendent Ted Hastings in all six series of BBC Television's Line of Duty. He has appeared as Alan Cox in The Jump, Martin Summers in Ashes to Ashes, Richard Plantagenet in The Hollow Crown, and as Father Flaherty in Broken. Dunbar also stars in the lead role of DI Ridley in the 2022 police procedural crime series Ridley, of which he was also associate producer.


Early life


Dunbar was born and brought up in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in Northern Ireland, the eldest of seven siblings. He was educated at St Joseph's College, Enniskillen before attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.[2]


Career


Dunbar has appeared in such notable films as My Left Foot, The Crying Game and The General. He has also had leading roles in the films Triggermen, Shooters, How Harry Became A Tree (with Colm Meaney), Richard III and Widows' Peak.

On television he starred in the first episode of Cracker, giving a performance as an innocent murder suspect with amnesia, and also the last episode of A Touch of Frost. He has been in many British productions, including Tough Love, Inspector Morse, Kidnapped, Murphy's Law, Murder in Mind, Ashes to Ashes and the 2005 re-staging of The Quatermass Experiment.

Dunbar's theatre credits include The Shaughraun and Exiles at Dublin's Abbey Theatre; Real Dreams and The Danton Affair at the Royal Shakespeare Company; King Lear, Pope's Wedding, Saved and Up to the Sun And Down to the Centre at Royal Court Theatre and Conversations on a Homecoming at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast; A Trinity of Two (as Oscar Wilde) at Dublin's Liberty Hall Theatre; and Boeing Boeing (London, 2007). He has directed a critically acclaimed production of Philadelphia Here I Come!.

In 2008 he starred in and co-directed Brendan at the Chelsea by Janet Behan, playing Brendan Behan. The play was the first to be staged in the Naughton Studio in the new Lyric Theatre in Belfast after it reopened in 2011, and was revived for a tour to Theatre Row in New York in September 2013.

Dunbar played the role of Tullus Aufidius in the BBC radio production of Coriolanus. He also made a guest appearance in the BBC Radio 4 series Baldi, and appeared on stage as Vermeer in an adaptation of Girl with a pearl earring.

In 2008 Dunbar played the role of Philip Conolly in the critically acclaimed The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce. He starred alongside fellow Northern Irish actor Ciarán McMenamin in the remote rain-forests of north west Tasmania. He joined the cast of the police procedural television series Line of Duty in 2012, portraying the role of Superintendent Ted Hastings; he continued in this role for all subsequent series.

Dunbar is also a theatre director who staged productions for the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival.[3][4][5][6]

He played the mysterious character Martin Summers in the second series of Ashes to Ashes. In 2014 he played the title character in a BBC comedy drama Walter.[7]

Dunbar also starred as Jim Hogan on the Virgin Media Television original drama Blood.


Other media



Awards and nominations



BAFTA Awards


BAFTA Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result
1993 Hear My Song Best Screenplay Nominated
2018 Line of Duty Best Supporting Actor Nominated

Irish Film & Television Academy Awards


IFTA Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result
2018 Line of Duty Actor in a Lead Role in Drama Nominated
2020 Nominated
2021 Nominated

National Television Awards


National Television Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result
2021 Line of Duty Drama Performance Nominated

TV Choice Awards


TV Choice Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result
2019 Line of Duty Best Actor Won
2021 Nominated

GQ Men of the Year Awards


GQ Men of the Year Awards
Year Nominated work Category Result
2021 Line of Duty Television Actor Won

Personal life


Dunbar has a daughter and stepson from his 1986 marriage to Australian actress Anna Nygh. He lives in Crouch End, North London. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Ulster in June 2009 in recognition of his services to acting.[13][14]


Filmography



Film


YearTitleRoleNotes
1986Sky BanditsMechanic
1988A World ApartLe Roux
The DawningCapt. Rankin
1989Unusual Ground Floor ConversionAlan SimpsonShort film
My Left FootPeter
DealersLennon Mayhew
1991Hear My SongMicky O'Neill
1992The PlayboysMick
The Crying GameMaguire
1994Widows' PeakGodfrey Doyle-Counihan
1995Innocent LiesAlan Cross
The Near RoomCharlie Colquhoun
Richard IIIJames Tyrell
1998The GeneralNoel Curley
1999Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom MenaceSenator Bail AntillesDeleted scene
2000Last OrdersShort film
Wild About HarryJ.J. McMahon
The Wedding TackleMr Mac
2001How Harry Became a TreeGeorge
2002TriggermenAndy Jarrett
ShootersMax Bell
2003The Measure of My DaysPriestShort film
2004Mickybo and MeMickybo's Da
2005Against NatureThe TrampShort film
2006Eye of the DolphinHawk
2008The Last Confession of Alexander PearcePhilip Conolly
2009Act of GodFrank O'Connor
2011HideawaysDr Russell
Mother's MilkSeamus Dorke
2012Good VibrationsAndy
2016The Secret ScriptureDr Hart
2017The SnowmanFrederick Aasen
2022EmilyPatrick Brontë

Television


YearTitleRoleNotes
1980The Long MarchColmTV movie
1984Play for TodayPeter DouglasEpisode: "The Cry"
After You've GoneChrisTV movie
The Hidden CurriculumBoyd
1985The PriceWilly4 episodes
1988The FearCon
The Four Minute MileNorris McWhirterTV movie
Screen TwoRobbie MacIntyreEpisode: "Reasonable Force"
1990JohnEpisode: "Drowning in the Shallow End"
Theatre NightLennyEpisode: "Pentecost"
Debut on TwoJohn/LucienEpisodes: "The Wake" and "A Box of Swan"
CentrepointBrown2 episodes
ScreenplayAndyEpisode: "The Englishman's Wife"
1991Children of the NorthMartin Deeley3 episodes
1992ScreenplayDS Billy McCourbreyEpisode: "Force of Duty"
Inspector MorseJohn MarriatEpisode: "Dead on Time"
1993A Statement of AffairsAdrian3 episodes
CrackerKellyEpisodes: "The Mad Woman in the Attic", Parts 1 & 2
A Woman's Guide to AdulteryMichael3 episodes
1994The Blue BoyJoe BonnarTV movie
PleasureGustave Coudray
1995Cruel TrainJack Dando
1997MelissaGraeme Hepburn5 episodes
1998The JumpAlan Cox4 episodes
The Officer from FranceWolfe ToneTV movie
1999Relative StrangersMichael Docherty2 episodes
2000Tough LoveDCI Mike Love
2003Murphy's LawMickey MundayEpisode: "Manic Munday"
Murder in MindTom RobbinsEpisode: "Justice"
SuspicionMark Finnegan2 episodes
2005KidnappedAlexander Balfour/Ebenezer BalfourTV movie
The Quatermass ExperimentDetective Lomax
Child of MineAlfie Palmer
2007The WhistleblowersChris ClaytonEpisode: "Starters"
2008WhistleblowerFlorence Wycherley2 episodes
2009Ashes to AshesMartin Summers8 episodes
2010A Touch of FrostGerry BerlandEpisodes: "If Dogs Run Free", Parts 1 & 2
MoDavid TrimbleTV movie
2011SilkJoe Gillespie QCEpisode: "Three Sheets to the Wind"
Death in ParadiseAidan MilesEpisodes: "Music of Murder" and "Amongst Us"
2011–2013World's Most Dangerous RoadsNarrator9 episodes
2012Scott & BaileyDet. Supt. Rick WallisEpisode: "Pipe Dreams"
Silent WitnessSean DelaneyEpisodes: "Fear", Parts 1 & 2
The Life and Adventures of Nick NicklebyRalph Nickleby5 episodes
2012–presentLine of DutySupt. Ted HastingsSix series; 36 episodes
2013JoOlivier CattanEpisode: "Place Vendôme"
2014WalterDI Walter GambonTV movie
A Touch of ClothDamien VullEpisodes: "Too Cloth for Comfort", Parts 1 & 2
2016The Hollow CrownPlantagenetEpisodes: "Henry VI", Parts 1 & 2
2017BrokenFather Peter Flaherty6 episodes
2018BloodJim Hogan
2019Red Nose BodyguardPoliceman/Supt. Ted HastingsRed Nose Day 2019 special
2021The AttendantThe AttendantShort film
Adrian Dunbar's Coastal IrelandHimself/presenterTwo-part series
Inside No. 9HimselfSeries 6, episode 4: "Hurry Up and Wait"
2022RidleyEx-Detective Inspector Alex RidleyITV series[15]

References


  1. Janet Maslin (19 January 1992). "Hear My Song (1991) Review/Film; Irish Tenor Is Focus Of Intrigue and Blarney". The New York Times.
  2. "Eye of the Dolphin Star Biographies – Adrian Dunbar". michaeldsellers.com. 9 July 2007. Archived from the original on 14 June 2021.
  3. Masters, Time (15 April 2015). "Beckett festival to feature play in the dark". BBC News.
  4. Slater, Sasha. "Going to the Opera". Harper's Bazaar.
  5. Thorpe, Vanessa. "Sophie Hunter: The opera director who has to dodge paparazzie". Sophie Hunter Central.
  6. Kennedy, Maev (15 April 2015). "Happy Days festival's Beckett treats to include a German Godot". The Guardian.
  7. "Programmes". BBC. Archived from the original on 5 August 2014.
  8. Adrian Dunbar as Bail Antilles- Deleted Scene- STAR WARS: EP I: PHANTOM MENACE- Alderaan in Senate., archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 20 July 2021
  9. Guardian Staff (14 August 2000). "Adrian Dunbar linked to 'strange' Star Wars". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  10. Adie Dunbar and the Jonahs Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  11. "The Curragh of Kildare". BBC Music. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018.
  12. Colfer, Eoin (2001). Artemis Fowl. Puffin Audiobooks. ISBN 0-14-180286-3.
  13. Honorary Degree for Leading Ulster Actor Dunbar Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine,
  14. Murphy, Eoin (15 February 2020). "Line of Duty star says Sinn Fein will be able to deliver 32-county republic". Irish Mirror. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  15. "Ridley". itv.com/presscentre. Retrieved 26 August 2022.



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[de] Adrian Dunbar

Adrian Dunbar (* 1. August 1958 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Nordirland) ist ein britischer Schauspieler.
- [en] Adrian Dunbar



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