writer, actor, voice artist
Lights on red seats in a theater

previous work

Showreel

richard popple

actor


Television & Film

Credits include One Life (2024), starring Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn, and several BBC productions, including a spoof for The Apprentice (2020), Citizen Khan (2017), Doctors (2016), and London Spy (2014).

I played a lead role in the Children's BAFTA's winning drama Refugee (2016). And have appeared in several short comedy films.

Stage

I regularly devise and perform with international theatre companies Punchdrunk, Coney and Guerilla Science. I toured the UK with Strangers on a Train in 2018 (produced by ATG and directed by Anthony Banks). I also write and make theatre, my first solo show premiered in early 2020.

For a full list of credits, visit my Spotlight page.
 

One Life (to be released in 2024)

One Life is a 2023 biographical film of British humanitarian Nicholas Winton, starring Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn as Winton. Winton helped groups of Jewish children in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938–39, just before the beginning of the war.

Directed by James Hawes.


LeShuttle commercial (2023)

Commercial for the rebranding of the Eurotunnel as LeShuttle.

Directed by Jake Scott.


Natures Menu (2023)

Directed by Jamie Maule-Ffinch.


The Apprentice ‘Fired’ Festival (2020)

Inspired by the infamous Netflix documentary, ‘Fyre Festival’, this tongue-in-cheek BBC Promo, features all of the stars of the show.

Directed by Jake Dypka.


Comedy short with Jason Donovan (2019)

A homesick, lonely backpacker is stuck in London for Christmas with no family or friends and no-one to turn too. Until Jason Donovan arrives.

Directed by Jamie Maule-Ffinch.


Refugee (2016)

In this short drama, we meet a young girl and her family in an unknown land and discover how they came to be there, far away from home.Winner of Best Drama at the BAFTA Children's Awards 2016, winner of the Children's category at the Sandford St Martin Awards 2017, and winner of Best Scripted Online Short at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2017.

Directed by Adam Tyler.