Kristian Bartholomew Hitchen is an English actor, best known for his role in the Ken Loach directed feature Sorry We Missed You for which he received a nomination for best actor at the British Independent Film Awards.
[1][2] Born in Salford on 28 April 1974, Hitchen studied dancing as a child and tried to break into acting after leaving school but, after meeting his wife, he left the industry and started a plumbing business.
[3] He returned to acting after visiting a retreat just before his 40th birthday[4] and had small roles in 4 O'Clock Club and Coronation Street before landing the part of Ricky in Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You.
[5] He has since appeared in Anne Boleyn as the Duke of Norfolk,[6] The Long Shadow,[7] Trigger Point[8] and the film Speak No Evil alongside James McAvoy.
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