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Richard Stephenson Winter

• Actor
  Male / London
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• Ethnicity

  Caucasian

  Age Range

  42 - 52

  Height

  6' (1m 83cm)

  Weight

  17st. 13lb (114kg)

  Hair Colour

  Brown

  Eye Colour

  Brown

  Build

  Large

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  Files

  • Richard Stephenson Winter Showreel 2015 video file (mp4)
  • RSW Showreel 2014 video file (mp4)
  • VO When I'm Gone sound file (mp3)
  • Richard Stephenson Winter Voice Demo sound file (wav)

• Links

  Personal Website

  www.spotlight.com

  Twitter

  @WinterTowers

  Spotlight Member

  yes

  Equity

  yes

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Credits

• Education

  Year	Qualification	Where
  1990	2 yr. Acting	Newcastle College

  Additional Skills

  DJ, Writer, firearms (for Army Officer), driver, NLP practitioner.

  Additional Information

  Spotlight View PIN **contact removed**

  About me

  I studied Drama at Newcastle College 1988, 89, 90, acting in a number of productions including The Crucible, Macbeth, Royal Hunt Of The Sun and Grease, as well as playing the lead in Habeas Corpus and Entertaining Mr Sloane. Uncertain of how best to forge a career as an actor and perhaps lacking the confidence afforded by maturity, I drifted out of acting in 1991, becoming an Army Officer and later a Disc Jockey (both of which required quite a lot of acting, ironically). Though the latter could sometimes be quite lucrative, neither provided anywhere near the same satisfaction or ignited anything like the passion in me. During a foray into stand up comedy in 2010, a chance encounter with a fellow actor and comedian led to my eventual stage return in "It's Complicated" (nominated for the Cambridge Footlights Harry Porter Prize) in London in August 2012.

  Since that time I have immersed myself in short film and television projects with a view to putting together a showreel each year. I am listed in Spotlight (View PIN **contact removed** I have a deep, resonant voice which carries with it an authority the development of which was essential in the work I have previously undertaken, both as an Army Officer (Major) and as a radio presenter. I bring an intense, physically commanding presence to my work and have the facility for pathos and comedy (between 2010 and 2012 I performed 50 stand up comedy gigs nationwide).

  I am pleased to have thus far lived a life of variety and challenge, but am happiest most of all to have "come home" (and that is exactly how it feels) to acting, and look forward to bringing the sum of who I am to audiences. I appeared in the critically acclaimed UK premier of Tennessee Williams' The Fat Man's Wife at Canal Cafe Theatre in 2014, and was recently nominated for an "Offie" - Off West End Award 2016 for Best Male, in Punchline Theatre Company's 2 Complicated.

• Skills

  Skin Colour

  • White

  Experienced In

  • Comedy
  • Corporate
  • Film (Professional)
  • Film (Student)
  • Music Videos
  • Presenting
  • Radio
  • Roleplay
  • Theatre (Fringe)
  • Theatre (Professional)
  • Theatre (Touring)
  • TV
  • Voice Over

  Interested in

  • Comedy
  • Commercials
  • Film (Professional)
  • Film (Student)
  • Presenting
  • Radio
  • Theatre (Fringe)
  • Theatre (Professional)
  • TV
  • Voice Over

  Organisation Memberships

  • Equity

  Accents (UK)

  • Birmingham
  • Black Country
  • Cockney
  • Edinburgh
  • English, standard
  • Essex
  • Geordie
  • Glasgow
  • Liverpool
  • Londonderry
  • Northern England
  • Northern Irish
  • Northern Working Class
  • RP
  • Scottish, Standard
  • South London
  • Southern England
  • Yorkshire

  Accents (North American)

  • General American

  Hair Length

  • Mid Length

  Specific Singing Skills

  • Tenor

  Stage Combat Skills

  • Yes

  Driving Licences

  • Standard

  General Singing Skills

  • Solo

  Native accent

  • English

  Character Types

  • Tough
  • Villainous