Born September 1966 in Hackney, East London, Richard trained at The MetFilm School in Ealing Studios, London as an Actor. He is a very versatile performer being able to take on a range of Characters.Recently he has played the lead character (Sonny Black) in a 2012 Television Documentary called Mafia's Greatest Hits and has had many other TV roles including two appearances on the the popular long running Midsomer Murders crime drama running on the UK Television Channel, ITV1, Morgan Spurlock's New Brittania on SKY Atlantic & the extremely successful SKY1 Comedy, Trollied.He has also appeared in various Big Budget Feature films from Skyfall (James Bond 2012) to RUSH, Les Miserbles, The Sweeney, Fast Girls, King of Soho, The Wee Man, Riot, etc etc.