Erin Richards

Known for Acting

5/17/1986(Age 39)

Penarth, Wales, UK

Biography

Erin Richards (born 17 May 1986) is a Welsh actress and director. She is best known for playing detective Nancy Reid in the television series Being Human and Barbara Kean in the television series Gotham.

Known For (19 credits)

Mudtown

2024

Local Newport Magistrate Claire takes the law into her own hands when a warehouse rave goes up in flames, and her past comes asking for favours.

6.0

Movie

Starve Acre

2024

When their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.

6.1

The Way

2024

Strikes in Port Talbot spark a revolution – and a family of fugitives go on the run. Facing impossible choices, what would you do?

Movie

Grey Elephant

2022

Follows two couples meeting together for the first time after months of being on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

6.2

Movie

Save the Cinema

2022

The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric theatre from closure. Alongside then Mayor of Carmarthen Richard Goodridge, they enlisted the help of Steven Spielberg, securing a special premiere of Jurassic Park.

7.0

Movie

One World: Together at Home

2020

A global broadcast & digital special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization featuring comedians, musicians, and actors to raise funds in support of front line health workers in the global response to COVID-19.

6.0

Movie

The Return of the Yuletide Kid

2019

The Christmas Kid stars Craig Roberts (Red Oaks, Submarine,) in a warm-hearted comedy from writer/director Jamie Adams (Black Mountain Poets), about a former child star who learns what’s really important at Christmastime. Anthony Richards (Roberts) – you know, the Anthony Richards, The Actor – is depressed. His agent (Dolly Wells) has just dropped him, he’s unemployed, and he has little choice but to go home for Christmas - home to his doting mother, his jealous brother and a claustrophobic Welsh community that still reveres him as the home town boy who made it big. Back in his childhood home Anthony has demons to confront. But when Patricia (Erin Richards), the Head of Drama at the area’s most prestigious stage school, presents Ant with an offer to write and direct a play, Anthony finally has the chance to leave his Christmas Kid’s baggage in the past, once and for all.

7.0

Movie

Irreplaceable You

2018

A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.

6.9

Movie

That Good Night

2017

A moving and memorable family drama about a terminally ill writer who wants to be reconciled with his long-abandoned son.

8.2

The Crown

2016

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

7.6

Gotham

2014

Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his rise from rookie detective to Police Commissioner? What did it take to navigate the multiple layers of corruption that secretly ruled Gotham City, the spawning ground of the world's most iconic villains? And what circumstances created them – the larger-than-life personas who would become Catwoman, The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face and The Joker?

5.1

Movie

The Quiet Ones

2014

A professor and his students perform a dangerous experiment that causes a young woman to lose her sanity.