--- name: "Richard Gadd" canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-gadd" fi1m_id: "richard-gadd" imdb_id: "nm6876120" tmdb_id: 1547839 wikidata_id: "Q28136502" roles: ["Actor","Writer","Producer"] born: "11 May 1989" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 76 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-07T18:11:13.500016+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Richard Gadd ## Identity Richard Gadd - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/richard-gadd - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** richard-gadd - **IMDb ID:** nm6876120 - **TMDB ID:** 1547839 - **Wikidata ID:** Q28136502 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gadd, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28136502, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6876120/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1547839 Actor and writer. Born 11 May 1989 in Wormit, Fife, Scotland, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor, Writer, Producer - **Born:** 11 May 1989, Wormit, Fife, Scotland, UK - **Active:** 2017–present - **Also known as:** 理查·蓋德 - **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 3 acting, 1 writing - **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (2), 2020s 73 (2) - **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 3 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, History 1, Romance 1 - **Screen time:** 1 hours of reviewed films - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gadd, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28136502, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6876120/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1547839 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Baby Reindeer*](https://film.one/tv/baby-reindeer.md) (80), [*Sex Education*](https://film.one/tv/sex-education.md) (78) - **Apple TV:** [*Against the Law*](https://film.one/film/against-the-law.md) (81) - **HBO Max:** [*Half Man*](https://film.one/tv/half-man.md) (66) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Richard Gadd > Richard Gadd writes men who could walk away and never do, and casts himself as one of them. Trusting the behaviour, in *Baby Reindeer*, he made something hard to shake; explaining it, in *Half Man*, he wore us down. A man is given every chance to end something and takes none of them. In *Baby Reindeer* (2024) Donny Dunn gives a crying woman a free cup of tea and is still serving her seven episodes later. In *Half Man* (2026) Niall and Ruben stay loyal to each other through behaviour that ought to finish the friendship several times over. Gadd writes the moment of leaving and then writes the man not leaving, and he wants to know why. It is the only question he has asked on television so far, and it is a good one. He arrived at it through stand-up. He was doing autobiographical dark comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe from 2010, and *Monkey See Monkey Do* (2016), a one-man show about sexual assault and masculinity, made his name. *Baby Reindeer* was a one-man show too, at the 2019 Fringe, before it transferred to London and became the series he created, wrote and led. Along the way he wrote an episode of *Sex Education*, in a writers' room whose tone, rude and precise and never cruel to the person with the problem, held steady across him and everyone else; it is the one time he has worked to somebody else's plan. Francesca Moody has produced him twice. What he does well is turn the candour inward. *Baby Reindeer* is harder on Donny than on Martha, and Jessica Gunning's Martha is the best thing in it because Gadd wrote her a whole person rather than a threat. The fourth episode leaves her behind to show how Donny reached that bar, filmed without music and without any mercy towards himself, and we watched most of it rigid and slightly sick. Nothing else he has written is as controlled. "I'm not Donny Dunn," he has said, and the series works because he plays Donny as a character, stoop and apologetic grin included, rather than as a plea. What he does less well is stop talking. The monologue is still under the series: Donny's voiceover tells us what Gadd's face has already shown, and by the third episode we resented it. In *Half Man* the habit has got worse. Ben McKinstrie's editing moves between periods of Niall and Ruben's relationship, which should let us revise our sympathies, and the script uses each opening to explain the men's damage after their conduct has made it plain. The violence repeats without relief. Jamie Bell and Gadd keep the two men from settling into a category, and the writing leans on them harder than it should. Gadd is a stranger performer than his co-stars and a more uneven one, and both series are strongest when he hands the weight to Gunning or Bell and lets it sit. Whatever he writes next would do well to have less of him explaining in it. ## Biography Richard Gadd is a Scottish actor, comedian and writer. Born on 11 May 1989 in Wormit, Fife, he studied at the University of Glasgow and began working in comedy and acting from 2008. Gadd created, wrote and starred in the 2024 Netflix series *Baby Reindeer*, winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for the project. His other credits include acting roles in *Outlander* (2014), *Humans* (2015), *Clique* (2017) and *Wedding Season* (2022), and a writing credit on *Sex Education* (2019). In 2026 he wrote and starred as Ruben in the HBO and BBC series *Half Man*, opposite Jamie Bell. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, vanityfair.com, bbc.co.uk.* ## On Fi1m (4) ### Performed in (3) — the average rests on these - *Half Man* (2026), Fi1m 66, as Ruben — [page](https://film.one/tv/half-man.md) - *Baby Reindeer* (2024), Fi1m 80, as Donny Dunn — [page](https://film.one/tv/baby-reindeer.md) - *Against the Law* (2017), Fi1m 81, as Eddie McNally — [page](https://film.one/film/against-the-law.md) ### Wrote (1) - *Sex Education* (2019), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-education.md) ## Complete filmography (19) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Half Man* (2026), series, as Ruben · Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/half-man.md) - *Baby Reindeer* (2024), series, as Donny Dunn · Executive Producer, Theatre Play, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/baby-reindeer.md) - *A Bear Named Wojtek* (2023), as Dave (voice) - *Truth Serum* (2022), as Jimmy - *Wedding Season* (2022), series, as Conrad Lennox - *A Year in the Ice: The Arctic Drift* (2021), as Narrator - *Ladybaby* (2021), as Harry - *Amazonia* (2019), Actor - *Princess Diana, Freddie and Kenny: ‘One Normal Night’* (2019), as Gareth - *Sex Education* (2019), series, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-education.md) - *Against the Law* (2017), as Eddie McNally — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/against-the-law.md) - *Clique* (2017), series, as Ben Howard - *Richard Gadd: Monkey See, Monkey Do* (2016), Writer - *Tripped* (2015), series, as Callum - *Humans* (2015), series, as Protester — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/humans.md) - *Scot Squad* (2014), series, as Tybalt Camberlain - *Outlander* (2014), series, as Duff — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/outlander.md) - *Baby Reindeer Play*, Writer - *The Husbands*, series, as Michael ## Gallery - ![Richard Gadd](https://film.one/media/person/22314/gallery-b1939e1ceace.jpg) Richard Gadd — Soccer Aid for UNICEF, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Richard_Gadd_-_Soccer_Aid_for_Unicef_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Richard Gadd](https://film.one/media/person/22314/gallery-4e6349e25ea3.jpg) Richard Gadd — Image via TMDB - ![Richard Gadd](https://film.one/media/person/22314/gallery-ff3b119db141.jpg) Richard Gadd — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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