Hugh Quarshie

Personal Info

Birthday

December 22, 1954

(70 years old)

Place of Birth

Accra - Ghana

Hugh Quarshie

Biography

Hugh Anthony Quarshie (born 22 December 1954) is a Ghanaian-born British actor of stage, television, and film. Some of his best-known roles include his appearances in the films Highlander (1986) and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and his long-running role as Ric Griffin in the BBC medical drama Holby City (2001–present).

Known For

Doctor Who

Vera

Silent Witness

Red Dwarf

Holby City

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

The Comic Strip Presents...

Casualty

Filmography

2024
The Return
as Imphinomous
2023
Book Club: The Next Chapter
as Ousmane
2022
The Son
as Doctor Harris
The Railway Children Return
as General Harrison
2019
Skeletons of the Mary Rose
as Narrator
2018
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
as Mustafa Kama
Red Sparrow
as Simon Benford
2017
Retribution
as DI Reed
2015
RSC Live: Othello
as Othello
2013
Catherine Tate's Nan vs Holby City
as Ric Griffin
2007
A Turtle's Guide to the Pacific
as Narrator
2003
Conspiracy of Silence
as Fr. Joseph Ennis
2002
The PhanDom Menace
as Self
2000
It Was an Accident
as George Hurlock
1999
To Walk with Lions
as Maxwell
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as Captain Panaka
Wing Commander
as Lt. Obutu
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
as Neville Lawrence
1995
Solomon & Sheba
as Nikaule's Father
1994
Julius Caesar
as Cassius
1993
Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
as Lieutenant Delaney
1990
Nightbreed
as Detective Joyce
1989
Loving Hazel
as Mike
The Church
as Father Gus
1986
Drums Along Balmoral Drive
as Wallace
Highlander
as Sunda Kastagir
1985
Titus Andronicus
as Aaron
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
as Kenge Obe
1983
Wide Games
as Corporal Chalkie
1981
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Philostrate
1979
The Knowledge
as Campion