Steven Hartley


Steven Hartley is an English actor who has appeared in television, film, and theatre.

Early life

Hartley was born in Shipley and grew up in Yorkshire. He was a successful amateur boxer for York He worked for two years at the Yorkshire Evening Press.

Professional career

Hartley attended The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 1981-1984. Hartley has appeared and performed in shows such as Happy Valley, Trial & Retribution, Merlin, The Borgias ''Vera, Rumble, Strictly Confidential, Badboys, Trial & Retribution, Sharman, Holby City, Casualty, Doctors, The Cut, Married... with Children, Ripper Street and Call The Midwife. He has appeared in Silent Witness, 3 series of the Sky TV series Brassic, Shadow and Bone for Netflix, All Creatures Great and Small and Grace. Most recently, he has appeared in Alexander: The Making of a God, Death in Paradise. Also Shakespeare and Hathaway. He is currently playing the regular guest role of Dylan Cooper in Miss Scarlet and The Duke. He also appeared as regular characters in The Bill, EastEnders and Doctors.
His films include Kesari Chapter 2 Allies Ruby Strangelove Young Witch, Robocroc, Jet Stream, The Walker opposite Woody Harrleson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lauren Bacall, A Dog of Flanders, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery alongside Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Benicio Del Toro and Catherine Zeta Jones, Split Second, and Young Toscanini.
After extensive rep theatre, Hartley's theatre work has gone on to include reprising his role as Bill Sikes in the West End Musical Oliver! in 2009-2010 for producer Cameron Mackintosh, the third time Hartley has played the role since being cast by director Sam Mendes in 1996, as well as the play An Evening with Gary Lineker at The Vaudeville Theatre the musical Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre and playing a leading role in the play Fit and Proper People for the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Soho Theatre.
Hartley has voice acted in video games including Sony Studios' Blood & Truth on PSVR as Tony Sharp, as Luis Belosa in Squadron 42 alongside an all-star cast, including Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, Mark Strong and Mark Hamill, voices for Greedfall, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Zynbel in the BAFTA award-winning game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and Hellblade 2 He also has roles in Sword Coast Legends, Dark Souls III, Nioh 2, Sea of Thieves, World of Warcraft and Lego Star Wars.
In 2023 he played Erik Hakansson in The Archers.
In 2005, he was nominated for Sexiest Male at The British Soap Awards.
For two and a half years, Hartley appeared as Tom Chandler in The Bill.''

Voice-overs

Hartley has been "The Voice" of Talksport radio station. He has voiced and starred in over 20 video games, including Eredin in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Larethar Gulgrin in Sword Coast Legends, Sir Vilhelm in Dark Souls III: Ashes of Ariandel, Shibata Katsuie in Nioh 2, Zynbel in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, and Petrus in Greedfall. He has recently completed video games Squadron 42 and Blood & Truth as gangster Anthony Sharpe and does voice overs for ITV X.

Personal life

He was also a committed marathon and half-marathon runner with the TV Times Leukaemia research team. He has a brother and a sister. Steven currently lives in Royal Tunbridge Wells with his wife, former actress Abby Francis, and daughter.

Filmography

  • Out of Order as CID 1987
  • EastEnders as Matthew Jackson
  • Christopher Columbus: The Discovery opposite Marlon Brando and Catherine Zeta Jones
  • Press Gang
  • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
  • The Governor
  • Bad Boys
  • Pie in the Sky
  • Sharman with Clive Owen
  • Trial & Retribution
  • A Dog of Flanders with Jon Voight
  • Chernobyl - Final Warning with Jon Voight
  • Young Toscanini
  • Split Second opposite Rutger Hauer
  • Holby City
  • Rumble TV
  • Married... with Children, episode "England Show" 1992
  • Doctors as Jack Ford
  • Paul Schrader's The Walker as Robbie Kononsberg alongside Woody Harrelson Kristen Scott Thomas and Willem Dafoe
  • Casualty
  • The Bill
  • The Cut as 'Little' Joey Horton
  • Ripper Street as Det. Sgt. Maurice Linklater, episode "Pure as the Driven"
  • Jet Stream TV Film
  • Allies
  • Silent Witness as Terry Fallon
  • Happy Valley as Cllr Marcus Gascoigne
  • Ruby Strangelove: Young Witch as Principle Maquire
  • Brassic as Russell Hardwicke
  • Shadow and Bone As Commander Chalikov 2020
  • Grace As Sean Klinger 2022
  • All Creatures Great and Small As John Monkham 2021
  • Call the Midwife As Bill Reagan 2024
  • "Alexander: The Making of a God" As General Memnon
  • Death in Paradise Christmas 2024 special as Tony Hurst
  • Kesari Chapter 2 as Judge McCardie
  • Shakespeare and Hathaway As Sam Albany 2025

    Theatre

  • Sam Mendes' production of Oliver! as Bill Sikes
  • Insignificance for director Rupert Goold
  • Played Dr. Jake Houseman in Dirty Dancing: The Musical
  • Played Bill Sikes in the West End production of Oliver! at Theatre Royal Drury Lane
  • Played in Fit and Proper People for the "Royal Shakespeare Company"