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Geoffrey Newland

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Geoffrey Newland
BornGeoffrey Austin Newland
🎓 Alma materUniversity of Newcastle,
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
💼 Occupation
Actor
📆 Years active  2008–present
❤️ Partner(s)Victoria Newland (2008–present)
👶 Children3
🌐 Websitewww.GeoffreyNewland.com
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Geoffrey Newland is a Scottish actor from Hawick, best known as Doctor Handley in Coronation Street, Capaldi in Da Vinci's Demons and Lillington in Outlander.[1]

Career[edit]

Newland has made over 30 film and television appearances and has been described as a “soap legend” [2]. In 2022 he plays PI Woodruff in Flowers In The Attic: Origin,[3] Doctor Handley as a recurring role in Coronation Street (2022),[4] Lester Garrick in Father Brown (2023), Grant Thomas in Casualty (2022), and is series regular James Darrow in BBC production A Kind of Spark (2023).

Newland has appeared in a number of feature films including Thomas Vinterberg's Kursk, Elbert Van Strien's Marionette and Nigel Cole's The Wedding Video.

He is a voice actor who voices commercials, audio books, animations, B2B explainers, corporate films, e-learning projects and narrations.

He stars in Doctor Who for Big Finish, and is a member of The Talking Books panel for the RNIB and Story Nory panel.[citation needed]

Personal life[edit]

Newland grew up in Hawick, Scotland. He boarded at Saint Mary's Melrose, Mowden Hall School and Sedbergh School before studying law and becoming one of the first 10 people in the world to qualify as a barrister combining a law degree with a barrister's vocational course in Newcastle.[citation needed]

He travelled the world for over two years before following his dream of becoming an actor, studying at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Lee Strasberg (New York).[5]

He plays both the piano and the guitar.

Newland has been married since 2008, is a father of three and resides in Kentish Town, London.

Works[edit]

Selected filmography[edit]

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2023 Chernobyl Fallout Anthony Jackson Feature
2020 Marionette Manny's Father Feature
2018 The Command Tony Scott Feature
2018 Sybil Vicar Short
2016 Moon Dogs Gerry Feature
2015 Hedda[6] George Tesman Feature
2014 Bait Mr. Hawley Feature
2013 Shell Shocked Jerry Short
2013 Earth To Sky Ray Short
2013 Grace's Story Head Teacher Short
2012 The Wedding Video Spencer Moyle Feature
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2023 A Kind of Spark James Darrow (regular) 10 episodes
2023 Father Brown Lester Garrick 1 episode
2022 Flowers in the Attic: The Origin[7] Mr. Woodruff 1 episode
2022 Casualty Grant Thomas 1 episode
2022 Coronation Street Dr. Handley (recurring) 16 episodes
2018 Outlander Mr. Lillington 1 episode
2018 Holby City Duane Counihan 1 episode
2018 999 Killer on the Line Narrator 16 episodes
2018 Emmerdale Policeman / Man / Clerk 13 episodes
2016 Eastenders Dermot Hayes 4 episodes
2016 Lola Uppochner Ib Kavanaugh 1 episode
2016 Doctors Duncan Leyton 1 episode
2013 Da Vinci's Demons Capaldi 8 episodes
2008 Spooks Jack Hughes 1 episode

Selected theatre[edit]

Podcasting[edit]

Newland hosts Night Falls podcast [10] which made number 1 in the Apple fiction chart in 2022.

Video games[edit]

References[edit]

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