Hugh Quarshie

ActorCrew Dec 22 (age 71) Accra, Gold Coast, Ghana 1975–2026 (51 year career)

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Biography

Hugh Anthony Quarshie (born 22 December 1954) is a Ghanaian-born British actor of stage, television, and film. Some of his best-known roles include his appearances in the films Highlander (1986) and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and his long-running role as Ric Griffin in the BBC medical drama Holby City (2001–present).

Known For

Film

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Mustafa Kama

Film

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Captain Panaka

Film

Red Sparrow

Simon Benford

Film

Highlander

Sunda Kastagir

Film

Absentia

Semo Oduwale

Film

The Son

Doctor Harris

Film

The Return

Imphinomous

Film

Nightbreed

Detective Joyce

Filmography

Acting (79)

Movies (36)

The Mandy Who Knew Too Much

2026 Upcoming

as General Moore

Dec 19

The Return

2024

as Imphinomous

6.5

Book Club: The Next Chapter

as Ousmane

Rapture

The Son

as Doctor Harris

The Railway Children Return

2022

as General Harrison

6.5

Skeletons of the Mary Rose

2019

as Narrator

Red Sparrow

2018

as Simon Benford

6.5

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

as Mustafa Kama

Retribution

as DI Reed

RSC Live: Othello

as Othello

Catherine Tate's Nan vs Holby City

as Ric Griffin

Ghosted

A Turtle's Guide to the Pacific

2007

as Narrator

Conspiracy of Silence

2003

as Fr. Joseph Ennis

4.8

The PhanDom Menace

2002

as Self

It Was an Accident

2000

as George Hurlock

6.6

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

as Captain Panaka

Wing Commander

as Lt. Obutu

To Walk with Lions

as Maxwell

The Murder of Stephen Lawrence

as Neville Lawrence

Solomon & Sheba

as Nikaule's Father

Julius Caesar

as Cassius

Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase

1993

as Lieutenant Delaney

Nightbreed

as Detective Joyce

The Church

as Father Gus

Loving Hazel

as Mike

Highlander

1986

as Sunda Kastagir

6.9

Drums Along Balmoral Drive

1986

as Wallace

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

as Kenge Obe

Titus Andronicus

as Aaron

Sharma and Beyond

as Man on Stairs

Wide Games

as Corporal Chalkie

A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Philostrate

The Dogs of War

as Zangaron Officer

The Knowledge

as Campion

Television (43)

The Marlow Murder Club

as Professor Gifford

Maryland

as Pete

Remembers…

as Self

Riches

as Stephen Richards

Stephen

as Neville Lawrence

Breeders

as Alex

McDonald & Dodds

as Clarence Adderly

The Capture

as Commissioner Cameron Yates

7.6

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

as Ekon Ameh

Absentia

as Semo Oduwale

White Heat

as Victor (present day)

5.7

Vera

2011

as Dr. Leon Parmer

7.4

The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart

as Narrator

Small Island

as Narrator

Doctor Who

as Solomon

Who Do You Think You Are?

2004

as Self

7.0

The Afternoon Play

2003

as Adam Clay

Jason and the Argonauts

as Chiron

Arabian Nights

as Mustappa

Ape-Man: Adventures in Human Evolution

as Narrator

Holby City

as Ric Griffin

BeastMaster

A Respectable Trade

as Caesar Peters

Melissa

as George Bond

Silent Witness

as Jomo Mashaba

She's Out

as DCI Ron Craigh

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Cassius (voice)

Virtual Murder

The Chief

as Vincent Pierce

Medics

Press Gang

as Inspector Hibbert

Surgical Spirit

as Fergus Debonaire

Behaving Badly

Red Dwarf

as Computer (voice)

A Gentleman's Club

Casualty

as Gordon Hutchens

ScreenPlay

as Wallace

MacGyver

as Inspector Rhodes

The Bill

Natural World

as Narrator

Wolcott

as Dennis St George

Buccaneer

as Major Ndobi

Rumpole of the Bailey

1975

as Jonathan Mazenze

7.1

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Under African Skies: Ethiopia

1989

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