Richard Cunningham is an English actor known for playing Ryall in Stephen Poliakoff's Golden Globe winning Dancing on the Edge,[1] for the BBC with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthew Goode.
Richard was born in Hove, in Sussex, and grew up in the small village of Wisborough Green before going on to train as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Other television appearances include playing Barry Flowers in the Law and Order: UK episode Help, the Sherlock episode "A Scandal in Belgravia"[citation needed] and in series 1 of Law and Order UK, the first actor to play two different roles in the series.
[citation needed] He appeared as Norman Wright in Hollyoaks, Gates with Joanna Page, Colin Chalmers in EastEnders, Doctors, the BAFTA nominated London Spy with Ben Wishaw BBC2 and Dickensian as the Reverend Crisparkle.
He also appeared in Burnt with Bradley Cooper and The Man Who Knew Infinity with Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons .