Biography
John Hollingworth is an English actor. He was born on 21 August 1981 in Keighley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, and raised in nearby Oxenhope. He attended Bradford Grammar School, studied at Trinity College Dublin, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). A rugby injury ended his sporting ambitions and led him to acting via the National Youth Theatre.
Hollingworth is known for film roles including CIA Analyst in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Sergeant Guthrie in 1917 (2019), Tristan in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Giles in Rebecca (2020), Marshal Ney in Napoleon (2023), and Lord James Karel in In the Earth (2021). On television he has appeared as Captain Henshawe in Poldark (2015–2017), Porchey in The Crown (2016), and Randall Foster in The Queen's Gambit (2020). He also maintains an extensive stage career with productions at the National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe.
