Peter Sullivan

He played Cardinal Sforza in The Borgias and was Commander Laurence Stern in Abi Morgan's award-winning The Hour for the BBC. He played the leads in Sky TV's Critical created by Jed Mercurio and in Cuffs on BBC1. He played recurring leads in Curfew for Sky, MotherFatherSon with Richard Gere for BBC2 and was also Ralph Hanson in Series 5 of the BBC1 drama series Poldark (2015 TV series). He will soon reoccur in Jack Thorne’s drama The Light for Channel 4.

In 1988 he joined the Catalan performance group La Fura dels Baus and toured the world with them in their trilogy of spectacles Accions, Suz/O/Suz and Tier Mon. In 1990 he was asked by Deborah Warner to join the National Theatre in London to tour King Lear and Richard III, directed by Richard Eyre, staying on to play in Napoli Millionaria as part of the Lyttelton Theatre company. He also worked extensively at the National Theatre Studio with Simon Usher and there formed The Actors' Group. He left the National to work with David Freeman, playing Pentheus in Opera Factory's Bacchae at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, before moving into television to play the lead in Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' sit-com Over The Rainbow.

Sullivan was born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. In 1982, he joined the National Youth Theatre, where he played Edmond in King Lear, and then joined the Old Vic Youth Theatre playing the title role in Macbeth. He studied at Central School of Speech and Drama from 1983 to 1986 and then in New York under Uta Hagen at HB Studio.

Peter Sullivan (born 26 July 1964) is an English film and television actor.