Christian Coulson: biography and filmography

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Christian Coulson is a young actor of British origin. He is known to many for his roles in films and TV series such as Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Last King, Gaby, etc. Of course, he played in several serious theatrical productions (Travesti, Romeo and Juliet) etc.) and provided his voice for two audio dramas. But the article will focus on his career in film and television.

Christian Coulson: personal life

Christian was born in October 1978 in Manchester (England). He studied at London's Westminster School, and quite successfully, for which he regularly received an academic scholarship. At the age of twelve, he joined the National Musical Youth Theater in London. And in 1997 he entered Clare College at the University of Cambridge, after which he received a degree in English. By that time, he had already written poetry and a book for his own rock musical The Fallen, which he first presented in 1998.at one of the conferences at the Bedford School.

Even as a college student, Christian took part in theatrical productions. He played the host of events in the hit musical Cabaret, Arturo Hui in Bertolt Brecht's The Career of Arturo Hui, and Claire in The Maids, written by the French playwright Jean Genet. And since 2001, the guy began to appear in films and on television.

Career start

Christian Coulson got his first role as Matt Radlet in the BBC drama mini-series Love in a Cold Climate (2001). And then starred in ten episodes of Alex Kirby's fantasy series The Worst Witch in the College of Wizards (2001-2002). The events of the series are considered on behalf of Mildred Hubble, a girl who, after school, entered the Three Sisters magic college at Cambridge. The actor got the role of Ben Stenson, an employee of the Misery cafe deprived of magic and the best friend of the main character.

Christian's next role was in Christopher Menaul and David Moore's mini-series The Forsyte Saga (2002), which tells the story of a powerful Victorian family. And in the same year, Daniel Radcliffe, Christian Coulson and Emma Watson starred in Chris Columbus's fantasy detective Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the plot of which is based on the novel of the same name by JK Rowling. He played Tom Marvolo Riddle, a young dark magician who later became known to everyone under the forbidden name of Voldemort.

The Last Hours of the King

ChristianCoulson with a small role of Ralph Partridge appeared in the melodrama The Hours, filmed in 2002 by Stephen Daldry. A year later, he received the role of midshipman Hammond in Andrew Grieve's television military drama Captain Hornblower: Loy alty. And then played the Duke of Monmouth in Joe Wright's historical mini-series The Last King (2003), which tells the story of King Charles Ⅱ: his life in exile, subsequent return and attempts to revive England.

The actor quite often had to appear in TV series as an episodic character. So, in 2005, he appeared in one series of the detective drama "Miss Marple" by Agatha Christie (2004-2013). He starred in the first season of Steve Bendelak's comedy Your Britasha (2003–2006). In 2006, he took part in the filming of one episode of the serial drama "Short Encounters" (2005-…).

He played a cameo character named Raoul in the second season of Jake Wilson's musical "Battery Down" (2008-…). The role of Ivan was played in the series Gossip Girl and Harry in the comedy musical Dante Russo Sausage and Sausage (2009-…). Christian Coulson starred in an episode of the comedy series Jeffery and Cole Casserole. He got the role of Mr. Farrell in the comedy-drama Nurse Jackie (2009-2015) and Andre Bergson in the third season of the CBS drama The Good Wife (2009-2016).

Ali in the jungle

In 2012, the actor in the role of Aaron starred in Jonathan Liseka's comedy melodrama "Gaby". This is the story of Matt and Jen who, as children, dreamed of having a baby. And now, after a few years, they decide to do it, butthey don't work because Matt is gay. In the same year, Christian played one of the main characters in the British-Iranian drama Ali in Wonderland. And played the lead role of Evan in the romantic comedy Lovers (2013) by Eric Tao, which tells about a series of sexual relations between members of a group of thirty people and what came of it.

Christian Coulson got a small role in the melodrama The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him, filmed in 2013 by Ned Benson. Participated in the filming of the Ira Sachs drama "Love is a strange thing" (2014). In 2015, he played in one episode of Christian Taylor's crime thriller "Bait". A year later, he appeared in one episode of the comedy-drama Mozart in the Jungle by Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman (2014-…). And in 2017, he joined the cast of Callie Khoury's musical drama "Nashville" (2012-2018), where he played George Damien, the director of music videos, for eight episodes.

New items

New films with Christian Coulson planned to launch in 2017. After all, the production of the comedy project Abigail Schwartz Those Who Wander and the drama The Rainbow Experiment by Christina Callas, where the actor will play the main role, have already been completed. It is also already known that he is leading the cast of Meredith Edwards' romantic comedy Bite Me, which is set to premiere in 2018.