Sean Rigby (born 15 August 1989) is a stage and television actor from

Preston, Lancashire Preston () is a city on the north bank of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England. The city is the administrative centre of the county of Lancashire and the wider City of Preston, Lancashire, City of Preston local government district. Preston ...

, England. He is best known for playing Jim Strange in '' Endeavour''.

Career

Rigby graduated from the

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) is a drama school located in Hammersmith, London. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest specialist drama school in the British Isles and a founding member of the Federation of Drama Schools. In ...

in 2012."The Endeavour Interview: Sean Rigby"
Damian Michael Barcroft, 6 April 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2019 He is best known for his role as Police Constable, later Police Sergeant and Detective Sergeant Jim Strange in '' Endeavour'', the prequel series to ''

Inspector Morse Endeavour Morse, GM, is the namesake character of the series of "Morse" detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, a Detective Chief Inspector in the Thames Valley Police in Oxford, England. On television he was portrayed by John ...

'', from its inception in 2012 to 2023.Nolan, Emma
"Endeavour season 5 release date, cast, plot, trailer: When does the new series air on ITV?"

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, 9 February 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2018 A

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reviewer said Rigby's interpretation of Strange "brings a vulpine grace" to the character. In the 2017-aired British

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television mini-series, ''

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'', Rigby played

William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle William Parker, 13th Baron Morley, 4th Baron Monteagle (15751 July 1622), was an English peer, best known for his role in the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot. In 1605 Parker was due to attend the opening of Parliament. He was a member of the Hou ...

, who received a letter, maybe or maybe not self-penned, warning of the

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. In 2015, Rigby played the

security guard A security guard (also known as a security inspector, security officer, factory guard, or protective agent) is a person employed by a government or private party to protect the employing party's assets (property, people, equipment, money, etc.) ...

Moe in a production of Alistair McDowall's '' Pomona'' at the National Theatre, Temporary Theatre, which had previously opened at the

Orange Tree Theatre The Orange Tree Theatre is a 180-seat theatre at 1 Clarence Street, Richmond in south-west London, which was built specifically as a theatre in the round. It is housed within a disused 1867 primary school, built in Victorian Gothic style. Th ...

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in 2014. The show, which included Rigby as a security guard's "troubled accomplice", was reviewed in ''

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'' by Michael Billington, who gave the production three stars.

Henry Hitchings Henry Hitchings (born 11 December 1974) is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history. The second of his books, ''The Secret Life of Words: How English Beca ...

of the ''

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'' felt Rigby's character was "especially unsettling".Hitchings, Henry
"Pomona, Orange Tree - theatre review: 'this dark new play from Alistair McDowall has the power to suck us in'"
''Evening Standard'', 17 November 2014. Retrieved 31 December 2018 In 2015, Rigby appeared as Henry in a 13-minute short drama ''Isabella''. In 2017, he starred as the only character in the four-minute

short film A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...

, ''Crossing Seas''.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rigby, Sean 1989 births Living people Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Male actors from Preston, Lancashire English male stage actors English male television actors English male film actors 21st-century English male actors