Richard Lumsden

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yearsactive = 1988–present
spouse = Sophie Thompson
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Richard Lumsden (born June 24, 1965) is an actor, writer, composer and musician. He played Nathan in Channel 4’s controversial drama "Sugar Rush" and on radio he plays Ray in "Clare in the Community".

Leading roles in other TV series included Colin in three series of "Is it Legal?" for ITV, Henry in "Wonderful You" (ITV), Foggy in two series of "First of the Summer Wine", Charles in "All About Me", Nutter in "The Sharp End" and Roger in "The House That Jack Built", for the BBC. He has appeared as Martin in Series 3 of popular sketch show "The Catherine Tate Show".

Films include "Sense and Sensibility", "The Avengers (film)", "Room To Rent", "Silent Cry", "Gospel Of John" and "Attila The Hun".

He performed his own one–man musical play "We Could Be Heroes" at the Bridewell Theatre in 2004. His repertory theatre work at Stoke-on-Trent & Basingstoke include "Master Harold & The Boys", the title role in "Hamlet", "As You Like It", "King Lear", "A Trip To Scarborough", "Amadeus", "Juno and the Paycock", "Far From The Madding Crowd",and "Having A Ball". He played Roche in "Rat In The Skull" at Theater Exchange, Minneapolis, and John Thorpe in "Northanger Abbey" at Greenwich.

His writing work includes a 7-hour drama "Wonderful You" for ITV (co-written with Chris Niel) and three verse plays for BBC Radio 4: "John Dodd Gets Taken For A Ride" (which was nominated for the BBC’s Imison award for new writing), "A Good Place For Fishing" which starred Anne Reid, and "Man in the Moon" which starred Tom Courtenay ("The Guardian" and "Daily Telegraph"'s radio Pick-of-the-Week). Readings of his play "Skeletons" have taken place at Soho Theatre and The Venue.

He has composed music for TV and theatre including a full musical score for "Alice In Wonderland" at the New Victoria Theatre in Stoke, title music for "The Morning Show" (BBC) and incidental music for Greg Wise’s BBC documentary about the life of Jack Good. He has released two cds with his band Henry Kissing Her - "A Little of Who You Fancy" [1996] & "Pull" [2006] , and also released a CD of piano music "Concert From The Eyrie" [2001] . He will appear in EastEnders as an ex of Clare Bates, Arnold. He will make his first appearance on 6th May 2008.

Background

He trained at the Guildford School of Acting, graduating in 1986. He is married to actress Sophie Thompson; they have two children, Ernie James (b. 1997) and Walter Eric (b. 2000).

It as also been tipped that he will be in the next season of "Lost" as Kate's husband although nothing is confirmed as yet!

Television roles

{| class="wikitable"! Year !! Title !! Role
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1988 to 1989 || "First of the Summer Wine" || Foggy Dewhurst
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1995 to 1998 || "Is It legal?" || Colin Lotus
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2005 to 2006 || Sugar Rush || Nathan Daniels
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