Ralph Michael Ineson is an English actor. He played Chris Finch in the BBC
series The Office. Early life
Ineson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire and educated at Woodleigh School, North
Yorkshire and Pocklington School. In the early 1990s, after studying Theatre
Studies at Lancaster University, he was a teacher at York Sixth Form College,
where he was also a cricket coach. Career
= Television= He starred as Donald Bamford in the
sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart, as Zack in the soap opera Coronation Street, and
played ex-soldier "Sam Walker" in the first series of Spooks. He played Luke
Mullen in the BBC Drama Playing the Field. He had a minor part in episode
four of the first series of BBC drama This Life. He starred in Suburban
Shootout, which aired on Paramount Comedy and Five. He played Frank Monk in
series 7 of Waking The Dead in the episode, "Wounds". He played Dagmer
Cleftjaw in the second season of HBO's Game of Thrones. He also appeared in an
Imperial Leather advert as a fireman. Ineson had a minor role in the fifth and
sixth series of BBC drama Waterloo Road in 2009 playing the role of Jon Fry. He
had a small role in an episode of Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, as Paul,
a buttock-kissing masseur, in the series 4 episode "Something Happened". In the
2012 ITV Titanic mini-series he played Steward Hart.
= Film= Ineson's Hollywood film credits include
First Knight, From Hell, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and a brief role in The
Damned United. He played Amycus Carrow, a deatheater, in Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2. He
also appeared in the 2008 film Cass, as Sergeant Mullins.
In 2014, he appeared in the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy. In
2015, he had a small role in the spy film Kingsman: The Secret Service,
playing a policeman that interviews Eggsy.
He played Wlliam alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Kate Dickie in Robert
Eggers's critically acclaimed debut film The Witch, which saw Eggers win Best
Director at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
= Voice work= Ineson has used his distinctive
Yorkshire accent in a variety of voice over work. He has narrated TV programmes
Licence to Drill, Salvage Hunters on the Discovery Channel, the 2010 Sky TV
series Inside Gatwick, the BBC1 series Claimed and Shamed. In 2013 he voiced
the Channel 4 series Skint which followed the lives of British families
from underprivileged backgrounds. In 2015, he narrated Countryside 999 on BBC
One. He narrated the BBC One documentary Series Gears and Tears which follows the
characters of British BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars. In the 2012–13 BBC Radio 4
dramatisations of the ten Martin Beck police novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö,
Ineson played policeman Gunvald Larsson. TV adverts that have used his voice
include: lastminute.com, Dacia cars, Gaviscon, and Wickes. He also did the
Sky Bet adverts during Sky Sports football coverage. Ineson gave his voice
and likeness for the infamous pirate Charles Vane in Assassin's Creed IV:
Black Flag. Personal life
He is a supporter of Leeds United. He has been married since 1993 to Ali
Ineson, editor of make-up artist magazine Warpaint.
References External links
Ralph Ineson at the Internet Movie Database
Ralph Ineson: BBC's The Office