Richard Neville
Richard is an actor, voiceover artist and writer born and raised in Dublin.
He recently took on the role of Leon Tully as part of the second season of RTÉ/Hulu’s Obituary which is due to be released later in 2025.
He also has several projects in post-production, including Fairy Fort, Intoxicating, A Deep Dream and season five of Bloodline Detectives on Discovery+.
Richard first developed his love of acting in the Players Theatre while at Trinity College Dublin and with the world-famous sketch comedy troupe Footlights while attending the University of Cambridge.
Most recently on the stage he performed as Apemantus in Timon of Athens with the Dryden Society in the Trinity College Chapel in Cambridge. He featured as Alfred in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at Smock Alley Theatre. He completed a run of original play The Caoining as part of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2024.
He has performed in a variety of projects for screen, notably in IFTA-nominated short film Debutante and short films Attend to Your Own Mask First and A Pilgrim’s Ballad.
Richard is comfortable with classical, Shakespearean and contemporary pieces. He performed as Sebastian and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night across stately homes and gardens of Leinster with Gift Horse Theatre, and as Rosaura in a gender-bent version of Calderón de la Barca’s Life is a Dream.
He is an enthusiastic singer with a rich, basso profundo voice. He had a lead role at the Scene + Heard Festival 2024 at Smock Alley Theatre in a sold-out performance of quirky, extraterrestrial musical Space Deli. He also appeared in Jesus Christ Superstar at the O’Reilly Theatre before the run was cut short due to the COVID pandemic.
His voice is now a permanent feature at the newly upgraded Dunbrody Famine Experience exhibit in Co. Wexford, which was unveiled by the Taoiseach in September 2024.
Richard has a deep love of languages and has previously lived in France, Japan and Canada. He is a certified C1 (fluent) speaker of French and Spanish under the CEFR European framework, has fluent Irish and conversational Japanese.
He loves horror, and is a seasoned character/horror performer at the Nightmare Realm.