Who is this adam Nagaitis guy anyway?

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Filmography

  • The Responder
  • A Thousand Blows
  • Children’s Ward (Series 12 ep 9) 2000 (Delboy)
  • Outlaws (Ep 11 – A Dying Breed) 2004 (Dean Small)
  • The Courtroom 2004 (Kevin Hoad)
  • Law & Order: UK (Episodes 7×01 & Episode 7×02) 2013 (William Braxton)
  • Happy Valley (Eps 3 & 5) 2014 (Brett McKendrick)
  • You, Me and the Apocalypse (Ep 5) 2015 (Todd Carter Jr.)
  • Banished 2015 (Private Buckley)
  • Code of a Killer 2015 (Ian Whenby)
  • To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters 2016 (Branwell Bronte)
  • Houdini & Doyle 2016 (Sgt. George Gudgett)
  • The Terror 2018 (Cornelius Hickey)
  • A Christmas Carol 2019 (Fred)
  • Chernobyl 2019 (Vasily Ignatenko)
  • Red Rose 2022 (Rick Bennet)
  • The Gold 2022 (Micky McAvoy)
  • The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon 2023 (Quinn)
  • Une Vie 2012 (Julien)
  • The Loving Ballad of Captain Bateman 2012 (Derek / Coach Driver)
  • 55 and Over 2012 (Sam)
  • The Christmas Diaries 2012 (Joseph)
  • The Mysterious Case of Maria 2012 (Ben)
  • Hester 2013 (William)
  • Lord of the Flies 2013 (Officer)
  • The Archivist 2017 (Ben)
  • Classic Serial: First Page -Dracula (narrator)
  • Classic Serial: First Page – The Count of Monte Cristo (narrator)

Adam Nagaitis Bio

Adam Matthew Nagaitis was born 7 June 1985 in Chorley, Lancashire, England. From a young age, Adam grew up with a love of film and acting. His first role was a supporting part in the television show Children’s Ward when he was fourteen years old. When Adam was nineteen, he moved to the United States to study acting at Stella Adler in New York City. While in New York, Adam directed and acted in a number of theatre productions, including Richard III. Adam later returned to the UK where he was accepted into RADA. He graduated with a BA (Hons) in acting in 2012.

Following graduation, Adam had supporting roles in Law and Order UK, The Inbetweeners 2, ’71, Peterman, and Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley. He also did several radio projects for BBC Radio, such as 55 and Over, Une Vie, The Archivist, and adaptations of the works of George Orwell. Adam received what he has described as his big break when he was cast to play the complicated and tormented Private Buckley in Jimmy McGovern’s Banished. After Banished, Adam continued to work in several television and film productions, including Code of a Killer, Suffragette, You, Me, and the Apocalypse, The Man with the Iron Heart, and Houdini & Doyle. In 2016, Adam reunited with director Sally Wainwright to play Branwell Brontë, the brilliant but troubled brother of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, in To Walk Invisible. Critics praised Adam’s “blazing performance” and his ability to “[convey] the inner torment as well as the selfishness and keeps our sympathy even as he drives us up the wall.”

In 2018, Adam starred as the enigmatic Cornelius Hickey in AMC’s The Terror, a fictionalized account of the lost Franklin Expedition. Adam worked very closely with showrunners Dave Kajganich and Soo Hugh crafting and developing his character. Adam’s performance as Hickey earned him a great deal of praise from critics and fans. In 2019, Adam played the firefighter Vasily Ignatenko in the critically acclaimed miniseries Chernobyl. To effectively represent the effects of radiation poisoning, Adam underwent eight hours of full-body makeup.

In 2021, Adam appeared as the assassin Virgil in Navot Papushado’s action comedy Gunpowder Milkshake and as Adam Louvel alongside Adam Driver and Jodie Comer in Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel. The next year, Adam played Rick Bennett in the British horror television series Red Rose.

In 2023, Adam played Micky McAvoy, one of the ringleaders of the Brinks-Mat robbery in Neil Forsyth’s The Gold. Later that year, he starred as black marketeer and underground cabaret owner Quinn in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.
Adam is expected to appear in three projects in 2024: American Star with Ian McShane, the British police drama The Responder, and as Lord Lonsdale in Steven Knight’s A Thousand Blows.
  
Fun Facts about Adam:
  • One of his major inspirations to become an actor was a biography of Robert De Niro, which he kept by his bed.
  • When asked what he was afraid of Adam replied, “Questions like that,” then added, “Getting eaten by a shark.”
  • While filming Banished, a kookaburra flew down and stole his lunch.
  • He owns the knife prop Hickey uses in The Terror
  • He auditioned for Stella Adler with a monologue from Hamlet. Adam later played Hamlet at RADA, which was featured in the documentary Shakespeare Uncovered.
  • He is a voracious reader and reads “about ten books on the go.”
  • Two historical figures he’d like to play are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and George Orwell.
  • Some of his favorite actors are Stephen Graham, Paul Giamatti, Paul Ready, Jared Harris, and Charles Laughton, whom he calls “the greatest actor of all time.”
  • Adam boxes and plays the piano.
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