Acting

Robert Hands

UK

Robert Hands is an Olivier Award-nominated British actor based in London. He trained at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic theatre school. His career has spanned over twenty years during which time he has played leading roles in film, television, and both classical and musical theatre in London’s West End.

Acting credits

Stonehearst Asylum poster
6.8

An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

Stonehearst Asylum

2014

Anna and the King poster
6.8

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just one woman.

Anna and the King

1999

Shine poster
7.4

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Shine

1996

Charlotte Gray poster
6.1

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.

Charlotte Gray

2001

The Lesson poster
4.1

Two schoolboy delinquents learn a lesson that they will never forget when a teacher at the end of his tether decides to abduct them.

The Lesson

2015

Pure poster
6.1

A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.

Pure

2002

Henry VI: House of York poster
NR

Second part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

Henry VI: House of York

1991

The Dark Room poster
5.8

In hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elope with Jinx's lifelong best friend, Meg. The discovery of Leo and Meg's bodies - brutally murdered in the same manner as Jinx's first husband - makes Jinx the prime suspect. Then, with the help of eminent neuroscientist Dr.Alan Protheroe, some memories begin to surface. Memories of desperation and paralysing terror.

The Dark Room

1999

Sharpe's Battle poster
6.9

Pyrennees, September 1813. Sharpe is given the task of preparing the glamorous Royal Irish Company, led by Lord Kiely, for their first encounter with the enemy. Previously only used for ceremonial duties, the Company finds Sharpe a hard taskmaster. Trouble arises amongst the Irish soldiers when false reports are circulated of a massacre in Ireland perpetrated by the English. When Lord Kiely begins a passionate affair with Juanita, the Spanish partisan leader, the distressed Lady Kiely looks to Sharpe for comfort. Then Sharpe is led into a French trap and he and the Royal Irish Company find themselves up against the vicious Brigadier Loup and seemingly impossible odds.

Sharpe's Battle

1995

Henry VI: House of Lancaster poster
NR

First part of an adapted version of Henry VI as performed by the English Shakespeare Company as part of the complete Historical Octology.

Henry VI: House of Lancaster

1991

Unspeakable Things poster
NR

Hannah is a mute teenager. Thomas eats roadkill. After Hannah is sent to live with her uncle in the lonely countryside, the two meet, forming an uncanny relationship. Their only obstacle is the outside world.

Unspeakable Things

2021

The Black Forest poster
NR

Two families go on holiday together to Europe. Whilst the children enjoy their new found freedom, little secrets start to unravel from within the quartet of adults, sparking conflict.

The Black Forest

2019

Which Way to the War poster
NR

Libya, October 1942. A party of British Desert Rat soldiers and two Australian soldiers are holed up in a remote building, when an ambulance of Italian "nurses" arrives.

Which Way to the War

1994