--- name: "Richard Madden" canonical: "https://film.one/person/richard-madden" fi1m_id: "richard-madden" imdb_id: "nm0534635" tmdb_id: 512991 wikidata_id: "Q510848" roles: ["Actor"] born: "18 June 1986" reviewed_on_fi1m: 6 average_fi1m_score: 74 average_as: "actor" average_over: 6 updated: "2026-10-02T22:48:04.310811+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 Madden ## Identity Richard Madden - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/richard-madden - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** richard-madden - **IMDb ID:** nm0534635 - **TMDB ID:** 512991 - **Wikidata ID:** Q510848 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Madden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q510848, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534635/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/512991 Actor. Born 18 June 1986 in Elderslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 18 June 1986, Elderslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK - **Active:** 2011–present - **Also known as:** 理查德·麦登, ریچارد مدن, ریچارد مادن - **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 6 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 77 (5), 2020s 57 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 72 across 6 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 2 of 6 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 5, Action 1, Action & Adventure 1, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Family 1 - **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,559m across 4 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Madden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q510848, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0534635/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/512991 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*1917*](https://film.one/film/1917.md) (78), [*Bodyguard*](https://film.one/tv/bodyguard.md) (77) - **Disney+:** [*Cinderella*](https://film.one/film/cinderella.md) (72), [*Eternals*](https://film.one/film/eternals.md) (57) - **HBO Max:** [*Game of Thrones*](https://film.one/tv/game-of-thrones.md) (82) - **Apple TV:** [*Rocketman*](https://film.one/film/rocketman.md) (78) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Richard Madden > Richard Madden plays decent men holding themselves still, and the interest is always in what the stillness is costing them. It made *Bodyguard*; princes and franchises have had less use for it. We rate him higher than most of the films that hire him. Watch him listen. As Robb Stark in *Game of Thrones* (2011), a boy handed a war before he had finished being a son, Madden spent three seasons doing sums in his head while a room full of older men waited for the answer. The jaw sets, the eyes keep moving, and the voice comes out a shade calmer than the man behind it. It is a small trick, and he has built a career on it: the good man who cannot afford to let anyone see what he is thinking. He was a child actor in Scotland before he trained at the Royal Conservatoire and played Romeo at the Globe in 2007, and there is still something of the stage in the way he holds a position. After Robb Stark came *Cinderella* (2015), Prince Kit for Kenneth Branagh, opposite Lily James, and for a while it looked as if he would be the handsome boy in the doublet indefinitely. He has said himself that he was done with princes. *Bodyguard* (2018) was the turn: David Budd, a soldier carrying his damage into a job that requires him to feel nothing on duty, in a drama that seemed to have the whole country watching. Then *Rocketman* and *1917* in 2019, *Eternals* in 2021 and *Citadel* from 2023. *Bodyguard* is where the stillness pays. We watched him stand at a shoulder saying almost nothing and found our own shoulders going up, because Madden lets you see the effort of appearing calm without ever letting the character see it. In *Rocketman* he does something harder to like and does it well: John Reid, Elton John's manager, played with weight and no wish to be forgiven. He has said that "Likable is the actor’s flaw," and Reid is the proof he means it. The trick fails when there is nothing underneath it. In *Eternals* and *Citadel* the scripts give him nothing to hide, so the held stillness reads as blankness, and adequate is the kindest word. In *1917* he arrives as Lieutenant Blake in a film built around its own camera, and there is little room for anyone to leave a mark, which is not his fault. On *Game of Thrones* we did not single him out either, in a cast we found without a weak link, and that is the fairer measure of where he stood: one of many, doing his job. What he needs is a director who gives him a secret and a co-star who makes him keep it. Franchises want a face; Madden is better at a face that is lying. If you are new to him, start with *Bodyguard* and work outwards, and do not be surprised if the best of him is still on television. ## Biography Richard Madden is a Scottish actor. He made his screen acting debut in 2000 and trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2007 he toured with Shakespeare's Globe as Romeo in *Romeo and Juliet*, reprising the role in the West End in 2016. He rose to prominence portraying Robb Stark in the series *Game of Thrones* (2011–2013). Subsequent roles include Prince Kit in *Cinderella* (2015), David Budd in *Bodyguard* (2018), for which he received a Golden Globe Award, John Reid in *Rocketman* (2019) and Lieutenant Blake in *1917* (2019). He later played Ikaris in *Eternals* (2021) and starred in the series *Citadel* (2023–). *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (6) - *Eternals* (2021), Fi1m 57, as Ikaris — [page](https://film.one/film/eternals.md) - *1917* (2019), Fi1m 78, as Lieutenant Blake — [page](https://film.one/film/1917.md) - *Rocketman* (2019), Fi1m 78, as John Reid — [page](https://film.one/film/rocketman.md) - *Bodyguard* (2018), Fi1m 77, as David Budd — [page](https://film.one/tv/bodyguard.md) - *Cinderella* (2015), Fi1m 72, as Prince — [page](https://film.one/film/cinderella.md) - *Game of Thrones* (2011), Fi1m 82, as Robb Stark — [page](https://film.one/tv/game-of-thrones.md) ## Complete filmography (29) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Killer Heat* (2024), as Leonides / Elias Vardakis - *Citadel* (2023), series, as Mason Kane / Kyle Conroy - *Eternals* (2021), as Ikaris — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/eternals.md) - *1917* (2019), as Lieutenant Blake — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/1917.md) - *Rocketman* (2019), as John Reid — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/rocketman.md) - *Harry Birrell Presents: Films of Love & War* (2019), as Narrator - *Bodyguard* (2018), series, as David Budd — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/bodyguard.md) - *Ibiza* (2018), as Leo West - *Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams* (2017), series, as Agent Ross - *Oasis* (2017), series, as Peter Leigh - *Oasis* (2017), as Peter - *Medici: Masters of Florence* (2016), series, as Cosimo de' Medici - *Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet* (2016), as Romeo Montague - *Bastille Day* (2016), as Michael Mason - *Group B* (2015), as Shane - *Lady Chatterley's Lover* (2015), as Oliver Mellors - *Cinderella* (2015), as Prince — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/cinderella.md) - *Klondike* (2014), series, as Bill Haskell - *A Promise* (2013), as Friedrich Zeitz - *Birdsong* (2012), series, as Captain Weir - *Strays* (2011), as Elliot - *Sirens* (2011), series, as Ashley Greenwick - *Game of Thrones* (2011), series, as Robb Stark — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/game-of-thrones.md) - *Chatroom* (2010), as Ripley - *Worried About the Boy* (2010), as Kirk Brandon - *Hope Springs* (2009), series, as Dean McKenzie - *Complicity* (2000), as Young Andy - *TRINITY*, series, as Secretary of Defense Webb Preston - *Trauma*, series, as Dr Jim Marchant · Executive Producer ## Gallery - ![Richard Madden](https://film.one/media/person/103370/gallery-97f396474862.jpg) Richard Madden — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Richard_Madden_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/1280px-Richard_Madden_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Richard Madden](https://film.one/media/person/103370/gallery-98279fb30885.jpg) Richard Madden — Image via TMDB - ![Richard Madden](https://film.one/media/person/103370/gallery-62adc7e3dec8.jpg) Richard Madden — Image via TMDB - ![Richard Madden](https://film.one/media/person/103370/gallery-6793151a885d.jpg) Richard Madden — Image via TMDB - ![Richard Madden](https://film.one/media/person/103370/gallery-d09ce64f7d2c.jpg) Richard Madden — Image via TMDB - ![Richard Madden](https://film.one/media/person/103370/gallery-98126ab3431d.jpg) Richard Madden — Image via TMDB - ![Richard Madden](https://film.one/media/person/103370/gallery-977431f81dc4.jpg) Richard Madden — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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