RUSSELL TOVEY

Ok, why I do I think Russell Tovey is so great? How do I put it into words?

The guy is rather fine....ok, not just rather fine, the guy is great looking, but easy on the eye is not really all you need to succeed...

He is such a great actor, he is the first actor where I truly believed that he WAS a character, not just someone pretending to be someone.

I first saw him playing a character with mental problems, and he played it so well, just little touches here - there was something about the way he said 'people' and how he described 'never being alone' that was touching.

The cute little gestures that he makes whilst acting, the little extra touches that he puts into a character....... that's why I think Russell Tovey is so great.

ALL REVIEWS FOUND ONLINE AND QUOTED DIRECTLY.

HIS DARK MATERIALS

• "Roger was played very well, and his bond with Lyra was strengthened by the fact that you saw the two children meeting, instead of having their friendship thrust upon you. Russell Tovey did a great job of purveying the innocence and childlike confusion, which made him one of the most convincing characters."
• FROM THE TIMES - "The device also allows us to accept that young adults — Anna Maxwell Martin and Dominic Cooper — are playing characters reflecting on their younger selves. Ably supported by Cooper, Maxwell Martin superbly sustains almost the entire weight of this drama, yet it is easy to believe she is a bolshie kid on the verge of puberty. The same approach produces some remarkable, childlike performances from the 30-strong cast, notably Russell Tovey as Lyra’s accidental victim, her friend Roger. "
• "Plaudits to Timothy Dalton as the ambitious and heartless Lord Asriel and Russell Tovey for his simple but doting Roger."
• "The leading actors include Patricia Hodge (so glamorous in a floor- length mink), Timothy Dalton, John Carlisle Niamh Cusack and Russell Tovey, and they're all great."

THE HISTORY BOYS

• FROM THEATREGUIDELONDON "Among the boys, Samuel Barnett as the most sensitive and fragile of the group, Dominic Cooper as the most controlled and confident, and Russell Tovey as the simplest stand out, each by gradually and subtly letting us discover that the labels I've just applied are misleading and that there's more to each of them than first appears."