Eddie Marsan

Eddie Marsen is the recipient of two BIFA Awards for his role in Mike Leigh’s features Vera Drake and Happy Go Lucky.

Eddie recently starred in the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. He also starred in the Apple TV+ series Franklin opposite Michael Douglas, Netflix’s Supacell (created by Rapman), and Suspect S2 with Anne-Marie Duff. He was also recently seen in feature Firebrand alongside Jude Law and Alicia Vikander, and Brian Epstein biopic Midas Man. Eddie will next be seen on TV screens in King and Conqueror for BBC and CBS, Lockerbie for Netflix, and Reunion for ITV. He’s also recently wrapped independent features Fran the Man, Vows and No Ordinary Heist.

Eddie was also seen recently in The Winter King for ITVX with Toni Collette and Toheeb Jimoh. Also in 2023, Eddie starred alongside Hugh Grant, Aubrey Plaza, and Jason Statham in Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre. 2023 also saw the release of the critically acclaimed Fair Play, in which Eddie took the pivotal role of ‘Campbell’ opposite Phoebe Dynevor. In 2022 , Eddie starred in the ITV’s BAFTA nominated drama The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe which follows the true story of John Darwin, who faked his own death to claim life insurance. Eddie also featured in The Contractor and the animated film Charlotte, which follows the story of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon. He additionally starred in Netflix thriller Choose or Die and the dystopian sci-fi drama Vesper. January 2022 saw Eddie reprise his role as Terry Donovan for the film version of Ray Donovan (Showtime).

In 2021 Eddie was also seen in Guy Ritchie’s Wrath Of Man which premiered on Amazon Prime. In TV, the same year, Eddie starred in the gripping Channel 4 four-part drama Deceit in which he played the criminal profiler Paul Britton and as anti-fascist activist Soly Malinovsky in the TV adaptation of the novel Ridley Road. 

In 2018 he appeared alongside Matthew McConaughey in the crime thriller White Boy Rick, and in Adam McKay’s political comedy Vice, with Christian Bale. The same year, he joined the DC Universe in Ryan Reynolds’ sophomore outing as satirical comic book hero ‘Deadpool’ in Deadpool 2. The year prior, Eddie reunited with Charlize Theron in the pulp thriller Atomic Blonde the beginning of his multiple collaboration with director David Leitch.

Eddie’s expansive career in film includes everything for acclaimed independent projects such as 2011’s Tyrannosaur alongside Olivia Coleman, and Still Life, to Edgar Wright’s franchise The World’s End, alongside Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. He has also been seen in The Disappearance of Alice Creed, God’s Pocket opposite Phillip Seymour-Hoffman and Still Life. As well as this, he has appeared in blockbuster features such as Gangs of New York, War Horse V for Vendetta, Mission Impossible 3, Hancock, Snow White and the Huntsman, Hobbs and Shaw and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes.