Harry Hadden-Paton
Biography
Harry Frederick Gerard Hadden-Paton is a British actor born on April 10, 1981, at Westminster Hospital in London. He is known for his television roles as Herbert Pelham, 7th Marquess of Hexham, in Downton Abbey and Martin Charteris in The Crown. On stage, he played the lead role of Henry Higgins in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of My Fair Lady on Broadway, earning a nomination for the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He is the son of former cavalry officer Nigel Hadden-Paton, head of a landed gentry family of Rossway near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and Sarah Bumble, who is the daughter of Brigadier Frederick M.
Career overview
Harry Frederick Gerard Hadden-Paton is a British actor born on April 10, 1981, at Westminster Hospital in London. He is the son of former cavalry officer Nigel Hadden-Paton, head of a landed gentry family of Rossway, near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and Sarah Bumble, who is the daughter of Brigadier Frederick M.
In television, Hadden-Paton is best known for his roles as Herbert Pelham, 7th Marquess of Hexham, in the television series Downton Abbey and as Martin Charteris in the television series The Crown. Across his career in acting, he has accumulated twenty-six known credits on The Movie Database.
On stage, Hadden-Paton played the lead role of Henry Higgins in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of My Fair Lady on Broadway. For his performance in this production, he received a nomination for the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
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- Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) as Bertie Hexham
- This Ordinary Thing (2025) as Self (voice)
- A Natural Selection (2025) as Mr. Daniels
- Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale (2025) as Self
- Twisters (2024) as Ben
- Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) as Bertie Hexham
- Industry (2020) as Tom Wolsey
- Downton Abbey (2019) as Bertie Hexham
- Downton Abbey Live! (2019) as Self
- The Little Stranger (2018) as Dr. Granger
- The Crown (2016) as Martin Charteris
- Grantchester (2014) as William Calthorpe
- Walter (2014) as Chief Supt. Charles Addison
- The Blacklist (2013) as Nigel Sutton
- About Time (2013) as Rupert
- Having You (2013) as Barry
- The Hollow Crown (2012) as Sir Henry Green
- National Theatre Live: She Stoops to Conquer (2012) as Young Marlow
- Silk (2011) as Ashton
- The Deep Blue Sea (2011) as Jackie Jackson
- Downton Abbey (2010) as Bertie Pelham
- Idle-Hands (2010) as Man
- Idle-Hands (2010) Writer
- In the Loop (2009) as Civil Servant
- La Vie en Rose (2007) as Doug Davis
- Waking the Dead (2001) as James Malham
- Midsomer Murders (1997) as Lawrence Janson