Hugh Quarshie

His film work includes Highlander, Nightbreed, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

Hugh Quarshie studied at Christ Church, Bryanston School and Dean Close School. The recorded working language is English. Works named in the authority record are Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, Highlander, The Church, Nightbreed, Wing Commander and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

• Name — Hugh Quarshie • Birthplace — Accra, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) • Education — Christ Church, Oxford • Occupation — Actor

Hugh Quarshie was born in Accra, Ghana. He emigrated with his family to the United Kingdom at the age of three. He studied PPE at Christ Church, Oxford.

Quarshie had considered becoming a journalist before taking up acting. He has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) since 1981 and an associate since 2005 and has appeared in many stage productions. He has also appeared in many television programmes, including the serial Behaving Badly with Judi Dench. He is well known for playing the roles of Sunda Kastagir in Highlander, Captain Panaka in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and Ric Griffin on the television series Holby City. He portrayed Lieutenant Obutu in Wing Commander. He appeared in the 2007 two-part Doctor Who episode "Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks" as Solomon, the leader of the shanty town Hooverville. He headed the cast of Michele Soavi's The Church (1989) as Father Gus, and played Aaron the Moor in the BBC Television Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. Quarshie has also narrated for television. His work includes the 2006 documentary Mega Falls of Iguacu (about the Iguaçu Falls), the 2009 adaptation of Small Island, and the 2010 BBC Wildlife series The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart.

In September 2010, Quarshie featured in an episode of the television genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?, in which he traced his Ghanaian and Dutch origins. The episode revealed that Quarshie is part of his country's old mixed-race elite as one of his ancestors, Pieter Martinus Johannes Kamerling, was a Dutch official on the Gold Coast. This also made him a distant relative of Dutch actor Antonie Kamerling. Quarshie was a supporter of the Women's Equality Party.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1968 — Scene — Episode: "Wide Games" • 1979 — The Knowledge — Campion — TV movie • 1980 — Buccaneer — Major Nbodi — 2 episodes • 1981 — Wolcott — Dennis St George — Miniseries • The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs — Danny Young — TV movie • A Midsummer Night's Dream — Philostrate — TV movie • 1983 — Rumpole of the Bailey — Jonathan Mazenze — Episode: "Rumpole and the Golden Thread" • 1983 — Angels — Turi Mimi — 2 episodes • 1984 — Sharma and Beyond — Man on Stairs — TV movie • 1985 — Titus Andronicus — Aaron — TV movie • Alas Smith and Jones — 1 episode • 1986–89 — ScreenPlay — Mike / Wallace — 2 episodes • 1988 — A Gentleman's Club — Baba — Episode: A Question of Er... • 1989 — Behaving Badly — Daniel — 4 episodes • 1991 — Chancer — Kazeem — 2 episodes • Press Gang — Inspector Hibbert — 2 episodes • 1992–94 — Medics — Dr. Tom Carey — 19 episodes • 1992 — Surgical Spirit — Fergus Debonaire — 1 episode • Virtual Murder — Dr. Mellor — Episode: A Dream of Dracula • The Tomorrow People — Professor John Galt — 5 episodes (The 5-part story officially known as "The Origin Story") • 1993 — The Comic Strip Presents... — Lieutenant Delaney — Episode: Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase • Red Dwarf — Computer Voice — Episode: "Emohawk: Polymorph II" • 1994 — Horizon — Narrator (voice) — Documentary • The Chief — Vincent Pierce — 1 episode • MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis — Inspector Rhodes — TV movie • Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Cassius (voice) — Episode: Julius Caesar • 1999 — The Murder of Stephen Lawrence — Neville Lawrence — TV movie • 2000 — Arabian Nights — Mustappa — Miniseries • 2000 — Jason and the Argonauts — Chiron the Centaur — Miniseries • | 2001 — In Deep — Jim Craddock • 2001–2020, 2022 — Holby City — Ric Griffin — 506 episodes • 2002 — Hornblower — Francois Lefanu — Episode: "Retribution" • 2004–2019 — Casualty — Ric Griffin • 2007 — Doctor Who — Solomon — Episodes: "Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks" • 2009 — Hot Cities — Narrator — 8 episodes • 2009 — Small Island — Narrator/adult Michael junior — 2 episodes • 2012 — White Heat — Victor — 6 episodes • 2017 — Still Star-Crossed — Prince Cosimo — 3 episodes • 2019 — Absentia — Dr. Semo Oduwale — Season 2 • 2021 — Stephen — Neville Lawrence — Miniseries • 2021–2022 — Breeders — Alex — 6 episodes • 2022 — Vera — Dr. Leon Palmer — Episode: "Vital Signs" • Silent Witness — Series 25; Episode: "History Part 1" • Riches — Stephen Richards • 2023 — Maryland — Pete — 3 episodes • 2024 — McDonald & Dodds — Clarence Adderley — Episode: "Jinxy Sings The Blues" • 2025 — The Rainmaker — Wilfred R. Keeley — 4 episodes

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1984 — Cymbeline — Posthumous — Royal Exchange, Manchester • 1985 — The Admirable Crichton — Crichton — Royal Exchange, Manchester • 1995 — Goethe's Faust — Mephistopheles — RSC • 1995 — Julius Caesar — Mark Antony — RSC • 2015 — Othello — Othello — RSC

The authorities additionally record the headings Hugh Anthony Quarshie and Ric Griffin. His recorded language was English. He was the child of Richard Quarshie and Emma Wilhelmina Philips.

Works recorded as notable number 8: Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, Highlander, The Church, Nightbreed, Wing Commander, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Conspiracy of Silence and Red Sparrow.

Hugh Quarshie is recorded as actor.