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Tom Goodman-Hill, born 21 May 1968, is an English actor in film, television, theatre and radio. Early life and education Tom Goodman-Hill grew up near Newcastle upon Tyne. During his time in Newcastle, he regularly acted in amateur performances at the People's Theatre. He earned a BA in Drama and English with a teaching qualification from the University of Warwick, where he took an active role in student drama. He spent a year as a supply teacher in Coventry before moving to London to pursue a full-time acting career. Career Film In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Goodman-Hill played Sanderson Reed opposite Sean Connery. He is also known for playing Sgt. Stahl in The Imitation Game and Neal Beidleman in Baltasar Kormakur's Everest in 2015. In 2020, Goodman-Hill played Frank Crawley in Ben Wheatley's film of the Daphne du Maurier classic Rebecca. Television Goodman-Hill is known for playing Joe Hawkins in Humans. He played the police constable in Ideal. He appeared in the Jonathan Creek episode "Miracle in Crooked Lane" as Jeff, an episode of Murder in Mind, series 5 of BBC One's Hustle as Alfie Baron and as the Reverend Golightly in the Doctor Who episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp". He has had recurring parts in several comedies, including The Office as Ray, and Broken News. He also appeared as Brick Beckham in time-travelling comedy Goodnight Sweetheart. In 2007, he played Richard Helm in an episode of ITV's Lewis. In 2008, Goodman-Hill played John Lilburne in Channel 4's period drama, The Devil's Whore. Goodman-Hill can trace his father's family back to Lilburne's Uncle Joseph, through 16 generations. In 2011, he played Neil Hunter in the drama Case Histories starring Jason Isaacs and in 2011 in Spy. In 2013–2016, Goodman-Hill played Roger Grove in the ITV series Mr Selfridge and Dr Mawsley in The Thirteenth Tale for the BBC. He also appeared in episode 4 of series one of Call the Midwife and as Maurice Jones in a 2014 episode of ITV's Foyle's War entitled "The Russian House". In 2015 he starred in Channel 4's Humans. He has also narrated all current seasons of Ultimate Airport Dubai. In July 2016, Goodman-Hill played Assistant Commissioner Stone in the BBC's three-part television adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel The Secret Agent. In March 2019, Goodman-Hill played Adam, the husband of Leah, in the ITV drama Cheat. In February 2020, Goodman-Hill played DI Hewson in the BBC's Inside Number 9 in an episode called "Misdirection". Goodman-Hill played Darrien O'Connor, a sexual abuser, in Netflix's Baby Reindeer, released in April 2024. Radio Goodman-Hill has played numerous roles in various BBC Radio 4 productions, including: Jesus in Witness: Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke; Anton in The House of Milton Jones, Another Case of Milton Jones and Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!; Ron, the security guard, in Self-Storage; Archie in three series of Hut 33; Claudius in I, Claudius; Martin in the episode "Newcastle" in the third series of Cabin Pressure; Mason in My First Planet, and Søndergaard in the episode "Penguin Diplomacy" in the second series of John Finnemore's Double Acts. Theatre Goodman-Hill started his professional career in the theatre. He has since appeared in productions such as Pete and Dud: Come Again as Peter Cook and The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union as Eric. He received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for the Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his performance as Sir Lancelot (and other roles, mostly those played by John Cleese in the original film Monty Python and the Holy Grail), in the London production of Spamalot. In 2009 he played Andrew Fastow, the former real-life CFO of Enron in Lucy Prebble's ENRON at Chichester and the Royal Court Theatre. The production transferred to the Noël Coward Theatre in January 2010 and in the interim he replaced Mark Gatiss in Darker Shores at the Hampstead Theatre during December 2009. Early in 2017 he appeared as David Owen in Limehouse at the Donmar Warehouse. He is a patron of Scene & Heard, a charity providing theatre-based experiences for young people in Somers Town, London. Personal life Goodman-Hill ended his first marriage and started a relationship with actress Jessica Raine, after meeting her during the 2010 National Theatre's production of Earthquakes in London. Goodman-Hill and Raine married on 30 August 2015. Filmography Film Television Video games References External links Tom Goodman-Hill at IMDb. Discover the Tom Hill popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Tom Hill books.

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  • Pretty Mess synopsis, comments

    Pretty Mess

    Erika Jayne

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWithout her alterego Erika Jayne, Erika Girardi says she’d just be “another rich bitch with a plane”so get ready for the dishy, tellall memoir from showsto...

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    The Boston Freedom Trail

    Robert Wheeler

    A Moving and Informative Guidebook and Keepsake Worthy of Coffee Table Display!Through lyrical paragraphs and poignant black and white images, The Boston Freedom Trail reveals the ...

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    The Clayton Account

    Bill Vidal

    Thomas Clayton is a City trader working the markets in London's Square Mile and living, financially, on borrowed time. But when he returns home to New York for his father's funeral...

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    A Short History of the World

    H.G. Wells & Michael Sherborne

    Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Al...

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    Barnaby Rudge

    Charles Dickens

    "I dreamed ... I dreamed just now that something it was in the shape of a man followed me came softly to me wouldn't let me be but was always hiding and crouching, like a cat ...

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    Over the Hills and Far Away

    Hilary McKay

    I asked myself lots of questions, like why did the Piper’s son steal the pig? Over the Hills and Far Away is an imaginative retelling which weaves together two classic stories in t...

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    Time of My Life

    Myf Warhurst

    We all have a soundtrack to our lives, songs that as soon as we hear them we're transported to a moment in time. As the youngest child, and only girl, in a family of creative types...

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    A Cold Season

    Alison Littlewood

    How far would you go to save your child? A nailbiting thriller, 'perfect reading for a dark winter's night' (Richard and Judy).Cass's husband is missing, presumed dead in Afghanist...

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    Blessed Beyond Measure

    Russell Stuart Irwin & Dr. Tom Hill

    When Tom Hill stepped away from comfort and security without the benefit of a road map or safety net, it was also without any vision for the “Exceptional Life” to come. He simply h...

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    Alfred the Great

    Asser, Simon Keynes & Michael Lapidge

    Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk of St David's in Wales who became Bishop of Sherbor...

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    Balls

    Ken Sanz & Scott M. Deitche

    The true story of the man who scammed the mob and informed the FBI for over two decades.Eddie Trascher had balls. Born in the bayou of Louisiana, Eddie learned about gambling at th...

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    Tom Aikens Cooking

    Tom Aikens

    From the day Tom Aikens burst on to the restaurant scene he has barely been out of the limelight. Awarded two Michelin stars by the age of 26, he has consistently been tipped as on...

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    Flight or Fright

    Stephen King

    #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Stephen King teams up with Bev Vincent of Cemetery Dance to present a terrifying collection of sixteen short stories (and ...

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    Cobble Hill

    Cecily von Ziegesar

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gossip Girl series brings her sharpeyed and irresistible wit to this “quirky novel of lovable misfits” (Publishers Weekly) chronicli...

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    Little Girl Lost

    Katie Flynn

    It is a cold night and Sylvie Dugdale is weeping as she walks by the Mersey. A figure approaches and, dodging aside to avoid him, she falls into the river. Constable Brendan O'Hara...

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    Watergate

    Garrett M. Graff

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yesthis one.” The Washington Post “Dazzli...

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    The Hidden People

    Alison Littlewood

    A chilling Gothic mystery from the bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club hit The Cold Season, perfect for fans of Susan Hill, The Coffin Path and The Silent Companions...

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    Far from Home

    Rosie Ayliffe

    British mother Rosie Ayliffe thought her 21yearold daughter, Mia, would be safe travelling around Australia on a gap year. But Mia wanted to extend her visa and in order to do that...

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    The Cave Dwellers

    Christina McDowell

    This “delicious take on the one percent in our nation’s capital” (Town & Country) and clever combination of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Nest explores what Washington, D...

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    The Way Home

    Mark Boyle

    An honest, radical and moving account of life off the grid. It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.No runni...

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    Play It Again, Tom

    Augustus Brown

    Dogs can smell electricity. Cats can heal bones by purring. Kittens can contact their mothers via a secret, ultrasonic language. Dogs can understand a vocabulary of 200 human words...

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    You Are My Sunshine

    Katie Flynn

    Kay Duffield's fiancé is about to leave the country, and her own duty with the WAAF is imminent when she becomes a bride. The precious few days she spends with her new husband ...

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    A Billion Years

    Mike Rinder

    One of the highestranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powerful organization in this remarkable memoir.Mike Rinder’s parents began taking him...

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    Born Fighter

    Reg Kray

    The shocking, gripping autobiography from one of the UK's most infamous criminals and gang leaders, and one half of the legendary Kray Twins, Reggie Kray.Reggie Kray is one of Brit...

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    The Ha Ha Bonk Book

    Janet Ahlberg

    Laughter guaranteed with The Ha Ha Bonk Book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg jampacked with brilliant jokes to tell your dad, your mum, your baby brother, your teacher and anybody else...

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    I An Distracted by Everything

    Liza Tarbuck

    READING MY NEW BOOK IS JUST LIKE LISTENING TO ME ON THE RADIO . . . WARNING: THIS IS A COLLECTION OF MY GENUINE DISTRACTIONS AND MAY PROMPT LAUGHTER.I AN DISTRACTED BY:Comments sen...

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    Plain Tales from the Hills

    Rudyard Kipling

    Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For t...

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    The Last Convict

    Anthony Hill

    ‘It’s a good story, Samuel. You’re a piece of living history.’ Oxford 1863: Young Samuel Speed sets a barley stack alight in the hope it will earn him a bed in prison for the night...

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    Not Waving But Drowning

    Edmund Gregory

    Not Waving But Drowning tells the harrowing true story of one man's childhood struggle against poverty and his subsequent drive to become a policeman in the Royal Ulster Constabula...

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    KD

    Marcus Thompson

    Golden State Warriors insider and bestselling author Marcus Thompson “paints a complex portrait and captures all the multitudes of a dynamic athlete trying to carve his legacy” (Jo...

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    The Travels

    Marco Polo

    Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On hi...

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    Hello Again

    Simon Elmes

    It’s now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast and the British love affair with radio began.This book is a journey through that fascinating history and a celebration ...

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    The Dearest And The Best

    Leslie Thomas

    In the spring of 1940, the spectre of war turned into grim reality. And on the English home front, men, women and children found themselves swept into a maelstrom of fear and uncer...

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    Ventoux

    Jeremy Whittle

    ‘They’re all scared. Everybody’s afraid’ – Eddy Merckx ‘Nothing compares to the Ventoux’ – Lance Armstrong 'Heartstirring and jawdropping in equal measure' – Tim Moore 'A really ex...

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    The Crow Garden

    Alison Littlewood

    Susan Hill meets Wilkie Collins in Alison Littlewood's latest chiller. Maddoctor Nathaniel is obsessed with the beautiful Mrs Harleston but is she truly delusional? Or is she hidi...

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    DIY Beauty

    Ina De Clercq

    Treat yourself to a DIY spa day with these simple, natural, and affordable recipes to replicate your favorite beauty productsfrom bath bombs to face masks!from Lush, the Body Shop,...

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    Through My Eyes

    Cheryl

    Through My Eyes is the first official book from Cheryl Cole. Featuring a series of stunning exclusive new photos plus informal shots from her own personal collection, it gives us a...

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    Nine Irish Lives

    Mark Bailey

    “These are not just nine Irish lives but nine extraordinary lives, their struggles universal, their causes never more important than today. As the saying goes, the best stories bel...