Parker, Nathaniel 1962(?)- (Nat Parker)

PERSONAL

Born May 18, 1962 (some sources cite 1963), in London, England; son of Sir Peter (a railway executive) and Lady Gillian "Jill" (a doctor) Parker; brother of Oliver Parker (an actor and director); married Anna Patrick (an actress), c. 1993; children: Angelica, Raphaella. Education: Graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Avocational Interests: Horses, horseback riding, horse racing.

Addresses:

Agent—International Creative Management, Oxford House, 76 Oxford St., London W1D 1BS, England. Manager—Rob Marsala, Marsala Management, 8324 Fountain Ave., Suite B, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Career:

Actor. Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, member of company, 1986-88; also performed with the National Youth Theatre, London.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Flying officer "Flash" Gordon, Piece of Cake, London Weekend Television, 1988, also broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre (also known as ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre and Mobil Masterpiece Theatre), PBS, 1990.

Dr. Dan Gallagher, McCallum (also known as McCallum: Beyond Good and Evil), Scottish Television, c. 1998.

Rawdon Crawley, Vanity Fair (also known as A feira das vaidades and Turhuuden turuilla), BBC, 1998, Arts and Entertainment, 1999.

Detective inspector Thomas Lynley, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, BBC, beginning 2001, also broadcast on Mystery!, PBS.

Harold Skimpole, Bleak House, BBC, 2005, also broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre (also known as ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House, Mobil Masterpiece Theatre, Kolea talo, and La casa desolada), PBS, 2006.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

Desmond Thane, Never Come Back, BBC-2, 1990.

Miles Goodall, Look at It This Way, BBC and Arts and Entertainment, 1992.

Thomas Cranmer, Gefaehrliche Spiele (also known as Dangerous Games), [Germany], 1994.

Title role, David (also known as La bibbia: David and Die Bibel-David), TNT, 1997.

Gabriel Oak, Far from the Madding Crowd, Granada Television, 1998, also broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre (also known as ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre and Mobil Masterpiece Theatre), PBS, 1998.

Albert Speer, Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (also known as The Nuremberg Trial: Inside the Nazi Mind), BBC, 2006.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Lieutenant colonel Ivan Lyon, Heroes II: The Return, Ten Network (Australia), 1990.

Lionel Filmore, The Black Candle, Tyne Tees Television, 1991.

Sam Mitchum, Absolute Hell, BBC, 1991, PBS, 2001.

(As Nat Parker) Rob Hall, Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (also known as Death on Everest), ABC, 1997.

Andrew Pearce, Trust, BBC, 1999.

James, Pretending to Be Judith, Independent Television (England), 2001.

Anthony, A Class Apart, BBC, 2007.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Alcibiades, The War That Never Ends, BBC, 1991.

Nigel, Dancing Queen (also known as Rik Mayall Presents "Dancing Queen"), Independent Television (England), 1993.

The Vision Thing, BBC, 1993.

Charles II, The Private Life of Samuel Pepys, BBC, 2003.

Himself, Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde, BBC, 2004.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

(As Nat Parker) Jamie Jasper, "Deceived by Flight," Inspector Morse (also known as Inspector Morse, Series Four), Central Television, 1989, also broadcast on Mystery!, PBS, c. 1991.

Fireman, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, BBC, 1990.

Chris Davidson, "The Affair at the Victory Ball," Poirot (also known as Agatha Christie's "Poirot" and Hercule Poirot), London Weekend Television and Arts and Entertainment, 1991, also broadcast on Mystery!, PBS, c. 1992.

Voice of Jacques, "As You Like It," Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, HBO, 1994.

Stephen Milmore, "Quarry," A Touch of Frost, Independent Television (England), 1995.

Himself, Loose Women, Independent Television, 1999.

Himself, Breakfast, BBC, 2001.

Himself, The Terry and Gaby Show, Channel 5 (England), 2004 (multiple episodes).

Himself, Richard & Judy, Channel 4 (England), 2004, 2006.

Himself, GMTV, Independent Television, 2007.

Television Appearances; Other:

Appeared in Awayday, Granada Television; and Without Walls, Channel 4 (England). Also appeared in Bedtime Stories, The Short Cut, and Wizards.

Film Appearances:

Wilfred Owen, War Requiem, Tara Releasing, 1988, Movie Visions, 1989.

Laertes, Hamlet, Warner Bros., 1990.

Clive Healy, The Bodyguard, Warner Bros., 1992.

Edward Rochester, Wide Sargasso Sea, Fine Line Features, 1993.

Martin Jordan, A Village Affair, 1994.

Thomas Dermer, Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (also known as The Last Great Warrior), Buena Vista, 1994.

Cassio, Othello, Columbia, 1995.

Martin Tanley, Beverly Hills Ninja, TriStar, 1997.

Father, All Forgotten (also known as Lover's Prayer), Seven Hills Productions, 2000.

Master Gracey, The Haunted Mansion (also known as Disney's "The Haunted Mansion," Die Geistervilla, Kummituskartano, La casa dei fantasmi, La mansion embrujada, La mansion encantada, Le manoir hante, Le manoir hante et les 999 fantomes, Mansao mal-assombrada, and Spoekhuset), Buena Vista, 2003.

Viola, Fade to Black, Dakota Films/Endgame Entertainment/Fragile Films, 2006.

Dunstan Thorne, Stardust, Paramount, 2007.

Flawless, Future Films, 2007.

Appeared as Pan in A Little Loving and as the devil in Unsigned, both short films.

Stage Appearances:

Tybalt, Romeo and Juliet, Young Vic Theatre, London, 1986.

The Gift, Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1986.

Don Pedro, The Rover, Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, 1986, and The People's Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, 1987.

Florizel, The Winter's Tale, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1986, Tyne Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, 1987, and Barbican Theatre, London, 1987.

Henry "Harry" Percy (Hotspur), Richard II, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1986, Tyne Theatre, 1987, and Barbican Theatre, 1987.

Wellbred, Every Man in His Humour, Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre, 1986, The People's Theatre, 1987, and Mermaid Theatre, London, 1987.

Lysander, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, 1987.

Vanya Kudryash, The Storm, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Pit, London, 1987.

Cargo Cult, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, 1987.

Bassanio, The Merchant of Venice, Phoenix Theatre, London, 1989, and Forty-Sixth Street Theatre, New York City, 1989-90.

50 Revolutions, Oxford Stage Company, Whitehall Theatre, London, 1999.

Speed-the-Plow, Duke of York's Theatre, London, 2000.

Appeared as Lusby, Claw, and as Captain Brazen, The Recruiting Officer, both Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold, Wales; in Blithe Spirit, London; as Oliver, The Kiss, Royal Shakespeare Company Festival; and as the title role, Macbeth, National Youth Theatre, London.

Radio Appearances:

Voice of Fernando, Gondal, BBC Radio 4, 1992.

Voice of Captain Steven Langley, Victory, BBC Radio 4, 1993.

Voice of Richard, "The Glamour," The Monday Play, BBC Radio 4, 1993.

Voice of Taffy (a dog), One of the Family, BBC Radio 4, 1993.

Voice of Axel Lindenbrock, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, BBC Radio 4, 1994.

Voice of Lord Lucan, The Lucan File, BBC Radio 4, 1994.

Voice of Arthur, The List, BBC Radio 4, 1995.

Voice of Cecil Vyse, A Room with a View, BBC Radio 4, 1995.

Voice of Gadi, Body of Glass (also known as He, She and It), BBC Radio 4, 1995.

Voice of Edward Carson, The Trials of Oscar Wilde—Part I: Between the Bark and the Tree (also known as The Trials of Oscar Wilde—Part I), BBC Radio 4, 1996.

Voices of Lucien Roubert and Pierre Bernac, "The Foot of the Cross or the Muzzle of a Gun," Proms Feature, BBC Radio 3, 1999.

Voice of Sergeant Michael Batalocco, The Secret Parts, BBC Radio 4, 2000.

Voice of Jean-Louis Chavel, The Tenth Man, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service, 2004.

Voice of Charles Dickens, Dickens in America, BBC Radio 2, 2005.

Voice of George Hall, "A Spot of Bother," Book at Bedtime, BBC Radio 4, 2006.

Appeared in a dramatization of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl.

RECORDINGS

Audiobooks:

Georgette Heyer, Faro's Daughter, Chivers Press, 1995.

Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield (also known as David Copperfield), Penguin Audiobooks, 1996.

Charles Dickens, Dickens Audio Boxed Set, Penguin Audio, 1997.

John Donne (also known as Selected Poems), Penguin Audiobooks, 1997.

John Keats (also known as Selected Poems), Penguin Audiobooks, 1997.

William Wordsworth: Poems (also known as Selected Poems), Penguin Audiobooks, 1997.

William Blake (also known as Selected Poems), Penguin Audiobooks, 1998.

Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery, Chivers Audio Books, 1998.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World, Penguin Children's Audio Books, 1998.

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Sterling Audio, 1998.

Roald Dahl, Danny Champion of the World, BBC Consumer Publishing, 1999.

Frances Fyfield, Staring at the Light, Chivers Audio Books, 1999.

Ian McEwan, The Child in Time, Chivers Audio Books, 1999.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poems (also known as Selected Poems), Highbridge Audio, 1999.

Nicholas Blake, The Beast Must Die, CSA Word, 1999, included in Two Classic Whodunnits, CSA Word, 2002.

Jenny Nimmo, The Rinaldi Ring, Chivers Children's Audio Books, 2000.

John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos, Chivers Audio Books, 2000.

Rennie Airth, River of Darkness, Macmillan Audio Books, 2001.

Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, Chivers Children's Audio Books, 2001.

Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker, Listening Library, 2001.

Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Media Books Audio Publishing, 2002.

Caro Fraser, A Perfect Obsession, Penguin Audiobooks, 2003.

Airth, The Blood-Dimmed Tide, Macmillan Audio Books, 2004.

Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, Listening Library, 2004.

Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, Listening Library, 2004.

William Brodrick, The Sixth Lamentation, Time Warner Audiobooks, 2005.

Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Listening Library, 2005.

Elizabeth George, With No One as Witness, HarperAudio, 2005.

Brodrick, The Gardens of the Dead, Time Warner Audiobooks, 2006.

Colfer, The Lost Colony (also known as Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony and The Lost Colony: Artemis Fowl, Book Five), Listening Library, 2006.

Charlie Higson, Young Bond Book One: SilverFin, Listening Library, 2006.

Higson, Blood Fever (also known as Blood Fever: Young Bond Book #2), Listening Library, 2007.

Video Games:

Voice of Andrew Sterling, Cold Winter, Vivendi Universal Games, 2005.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Hello!, January 2, 1999.

New Woman, November, 1998.

Radio Times, May 1, 1999.

US, February 21, 1997.

Electronic:

Nathaniel Parker Official Homepage,http://www.nathanielparker.com, March 26, 2007.