Christian Coulson: biography and filmography

Christian Coulson is a young British actororigin. He is known for many roles in such films and serials as "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", "The Last King", "Gabi", etc. Of course, he played in several serious theatrical productions ("Travesty", "Romeo and Juliet" and others) and provided his voice for two audio tracks. But the article will cover his career in film and television.

Christian Coulson: personal life

Christian was born in October 1978 in Manchester(England). He studied at London's Westminster School, and quite successfully, for which he regularly received an academic scholarship. At the age of twelve he joined the staff of the National Youth Musical Theater in London. And in 1997 he entered Clare College at the University of Cambridge, after which he received a degree in English. By that time he had already written poetry and a book for his own rock musical The Fallen, which he first introduced in 1998 at a conference in Bedford School.

While still a college student, Christian tookparticipation in theatrical productions. He played a leading event in the popular musical "Cabaret", Arturo Ui in Bertolt Brecht's play "The Career of Arturo Ui" and Clare in the play "The maids", written by the French playwright Jean Genet. And since 2001, the guy began to appear in films and on television.

Carier start

His first role as Matt Radleta Christian Coulsonreceived in the dramatic miniseries of the BBC channel "Love in a cold climate" (2001). And then starred in ten episodes of the fantasy series Alex Kirby "The worst witch in the College of Wizards" (2001-2002). The events of the series are considered on behalf of Mildred Hubble - a girl who after school entered the magic college of the Three Sisters at Cambridge. The actor got the role of Ben Stenson, deprived by the magic of the employee of the cafe "Misery" and the best friend of the main character.

The next role was given to Christian in the mini-seriesChristopher Menaul and David Moore's The Forsyte Saga (2002), which tells the story of an influential Victorian family. And in the same year, Daniel Radcliffe, Christian Coulson and Emma Watson starred in the fantasy detective Chris Columbus "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", the plot of which is based on the novel of the same name, Joan Rowling. He played Tom Marvolo Reddle - a young dark magician, who later became known to everyone under the forbidden name of Volan de Mort.

The last watch of the king

Christian Coulson with a small role of RalphPartridge appeared in the melodrama "Watch", filmed in 2002 by Stephen Daldry. A year later he won the role of midshipman Hammond in the television military drama Andrew Grieve "Captain Hornblower: Loyalty." And then he played the Duke of Monmouth in Joe Wright's historic mini-series "The Last King" (2003), narrating about King Charles Ⅱ: about his life in exile, his subsequent return and his attempts to revive England.

The actor quite often had to appear inserials as an episodic character. So, in 2005 he appeared in one series of the detective drama "Miss Marple" by Agatha Christie (2004-2013). He starred in the first season of the comedy Steve Bendelac "Your Brita" (2003-2006). In 2006, took part in the filming of one episode of a multi-series drama "Short Meetings" (2005- ...).

He played an episodic character named Raulin the second season of Jake Wilson's musical "The Battery Soul" (2008- ...). The role of Ivan performed in the series "Gossip Girl" and Harry in the comic musical Dante Russo "Sausage and Sausage" (2009- ...). Christian Coulson starred in the episode of the comedy series Jeffery and Cole Casserole. He got the role of Mr. Farrell in the comedy drama "Sister Jackie" (2009-2015), and Andre Bergson - in the third season of the CBS drama "The Good Wife" (2009-2016).

Ali in the jungle

In 2012, the actor in the role of Aaron starred incomedy melodrama of Jonathan Liseki "Gabi". This is the story of Matt and Jen, who in their childhood dreamed of having a baby. And now, after a few years, they decide to do it, but they do not work, because Matt is gay. In the same year, Christian played one of the main characters in the British-Iranian drama "Ali in Wonderland." And he played the main role of Evan in the romantic comedy Erica Tao "Lovers" (2013), narrating about a series of sexual relations between members of a group of thirty people and about what came of it.

A small role Christian Coulson received inmelodrama "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: He", shot in 2013 by Ned Benson. Participated in the shooting of the drama of Ira Sachs "Love is a strange thing" (2014). In 2015 he played in one episode of the criminal thriller Christian Taylor "Bait". A year later appeared in one episode of the comedic drama of Roman Coppola and Jason Shvartsman "Mozart in the jungle" (2014- ...). And in 2017, he joined the cast of the musical drama Kelly Huri "Nashville" (2012-2018), where for eight episodes George Damien was playing - the director of music videos.

New items

New films with Christian Coulson are planningrun in 2017. After all, the production of the comedy project of Abbygail Schwarz Those Who Wander and the drama of Christina Callas The Rainbow Experiment, where the actor will play the main role, has already been completed. It is also known that he is at the head of the cast of romantic comedy Meredith Edwards Bite Me, the date of its premiere is scheduled for 2018.