Nicholas Boulton

Biography

Born in 1968 in Gibraltar, educated in Dublin (Ireland) and Sherborne (England), Nicholas studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music And Drama in London. His extensive career has encompassed stage, screen, and radio. He has played leading and major supporting roles for many British stage productions including for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre. Winner of the BBC Radio Carleton Hobbs award in 1993 he is regularly heard in BBC Radio drama productions, with more than 100 credits to his name. He is also a major voice in the world of video games – he is the voice of Garrett Hawke (lead) in Bioware’s Dragon Age 2, and has featured strongly in such popular games as Assassin’s Creed, Mass Effect, Little Big Planet, Fable, Killzone, and many more. His other skills and interests include playing blues harmonica and slide-guitar, stilt-walking, scuba-diving, and skiing. Nicholas is a keen kite-surfer and a highly skilled horseman and swordsman.