Colin Hurley

Collin Hurley is an English actor and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company the National Theatre and the Shakespeares Globe company specialising in performing the works of William Shakespeare Born in Leicester Hurley first became interested in acting at Alderman Newtons Boys School when he played Le Beau in As You Like It before going on to act in youth theatre school plays and amateur dramatic societies On leaving school in 1969 he spent ten years working in repertory theatres around the United Kingdom when his roles included the title role in Hamlet Nero in Britannicus Gus in The Dumb Waiter Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer Salisbury Playhouse Ariel in The Tempest Gateway Theatre Chester the title role in Henry V The Black Prince in Edward III Theatr Clwyd Pip in Great Expectations Wolsey Theatre Ipswich and Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors Bristol Old Vic He also worked with Communicado and The Custard Factory playing Tyresius in Antigone Johnnie in Hello and Goodbye and the Farrant twins in Corpse for Viennas English Theatre He then studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama graduating in 1981