Richard Madden
Richard Madden is a Scottish actor. He rose to prominence in 2011 for his portrayal of Robb Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones. In 2018, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama. His other television and film credits include Cosimo de’ Medici in the first season of the historical fiction series Medici.
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Richard Madden is a Scottish actor. He rose to prominence in 2011 for his portrayal of Robb Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones. In 2018, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama. His other television and film credits include the lead role of Cosimo de’ Medici in the first season of the historical fiction series Medici, Prince Kit in Disney’s live-action Cinderella, John Reid in the biopic Rocketman, and a lieutenant in the epic war film 1917. In 2007, he toured with Shakespeare’s Globe company as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, a role he reprised in the West End in 2016. Between 12 May and 13 August 2016, Madden appeared in Romeo in Juliet, where he was reunited with his Cinderella co-star Lily James. In the same year, he starred alongside Michael Mason in the film Bastille Day, starring alongside Idris Elba and Ibiza Elba.
He then played the leading role in the romantic comedy Ibiza alongside American DJ Ibiza in the Netflix film Ibiza. He has also starred in the TV series The Grand Budapest Hotel and the film adaptation of Florence, subtitled Masters of the Masters. He is the son of a primary school teacher and a firefighter. Madden was born and raised in Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland. He attended the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, in Glasgow, graduating in 2007. He also studied at the University of Glasgow. Madden has two sisters and a younger brother, who is also an actor.
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