Hugh Quarshie
Born: 1954-12-22 in Accra - Ghana
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2025
- The Mandy Who Knew Too Much as General Moore
2024
- The Return as Imphinomous
- The Marlow Murder Club as Professor Gifford
2023
- Book Club: The Next Chapter as Ousmane
- Maryland as Pete
- Rapture
2022
- The Son as Doctor Harris
- Riches as Stephen Richards
- The Railway Children Return as General Harrison
2021
- Stephen as Neville Lawrence
2020
- McDonald & Dodds as Clarence Adderly
- Breeders as Alex
2019
- Skeletons of the Mary Rose as Narrator
2018
- Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as Ekon Ameh
- Red Sparrow as Simon Benford
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald as Mustafa Kama
2017
- Absentia as Semo Oduwale
- Retribution as DI Reed
2015
- RSC Live: Othello as Othello
2013
- Catherine Tate's Nan vs Holby City as Ric Griffin
2012
- White Heat as Victor (present day)
2010
- The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart as Narrator
2009
- Small Island as Narrator
2007
- A Turtle's Guide to the Pacific as Narrator
2005
- Doctor Who as Solomon
2004
- Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2003
- The Afternoon Play as Adam Clay
- Conspiracy of Silence as Fr. Joseph Ennis
2002
- The PhanDom Menace as Self
2000
- It Was an Accident as George Hurlock
- Jason and the Argonauts as Chiron
- Arabian Nights as Mustappa
- Ape-Man as Narrator
1999
- Holby City as Ric Griffin
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as Captain Panaka
- Wing Commander as Lt. Obutu
- BeastMaster
- The Murder of Stephen Lawrence as Neville Lawrence
- To Walk with Lions as Maxwell
1998
- A Respectable Trade as Caesar Peters
1997
- Melissa as George Bond
1996
- Silent Witness as Jomo Mashaba
1995
- Solomon & Sheba as Nikaule's Father
- She's Out as DCI Ron Craigh
1994
- Julius Caesar as Cassius
1993
- Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase as Lieutenant Delaney
1992
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Cassius (voice)
- Virtual Murder
1990
- Nightbreed as Detective Joyce
- The Chief as Vincent Pierce
- Medics
1989
- Loving Hazel as Mike
- Press Gang as Inspector Hibbert
- Surgical Spirit as Fergus Debonaire
- The Church as Father Gus
- Behaving Badly
- Under African Skies: Ethiopia ... (Presenter)
1988
- Red Dwarf as Computer (voice)
- A Gentleman's Club
1986
- Casualty as Ric Griffin
- Highlander as Sunda Kastagir
- Drums Along Balmoral Drive as Wallace
1985
- Titus Andronicus as Aaron
- Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend as Kenge Obe
1984
- The Bill
- Sharma and Beyond as Man on Stairs
1983
- Natural World as Narrator
- Wide Games as Corporal Chalkie
1981
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Philostrate
- Wolcott as Dennis St George
1980
- Buccaneer as Major Ndobi
1979
- The Knowledge as Campion
1975
- Rumpole of the Bailey as Jonathan Mazenze