Blake Ritson is a British actor and the voice of several video games, including 3 parts of the popular Dark Souls franchise, developed by FromSoftware in the Action / RPG genre. We will talk about this, as well as about his roles in film and television, in an article.
Blake Ritson: biography
Blake Adam Ritson was born in 1978 in London. Until 1993, he attended school in the city of Reading, which is located in the heart of Berkshire. Later he entered St. Paul's School (West London), where he received a scholarship for good studies. And in 2000 he graduated from Cambridge University College, where he studied Italian history and English.
Already during his studies, he began to appear on the stages of theaters and television screens. For example, he played Fleans, the son of General Banco, in the Shakespeare tragedy Macbeth and Lord Augustus in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia, staged by Richard Eyre and Trevor Nunn at the London National Theater.
Carier start
The first full-length film with Blake Ritson was released back in 1996, when the British director Richard Spence offered him a small role in the melodrama "Girls Love Differently." Then he was invited to star in one episode of the mini-series No Bananas (1996). And as one of the main characters in Herbert Wise’s biographical drama “Code Breach” (1996).
In 1999, along with Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lang, the actor starred in the historical drama Julie Taymor, Titus - Ruler of Rome. A year later, appeared in two episodes of the television series "League of Gentlemen" (1999 - 2002). He played in the British drama Sandra Goldbacher's "With You and Without You" (2001). And he became one of the main characters in the television drama by David Richards “Little Red Riding Hood” (2001).
In 2002, Blake Ritson played Alexander Griffon in Duncan Roy’s drama So-Called. From 2003 to 2004 he played Giles Vicari in 12 episodes of the television drama series Patrick Harbinson's "Little Red Riding Hood" (2003 - 2004). And in 2005, he played the role of Ben Swells in one episode of the documentary drama of the BBC channel "If …" (2004 - 2006). In the series, scenarios of various crisis situations that could theoretically hit the UK could be understood.
Voice play
The actor became acquainted with such a direction as voice acting in 2005, when the captain of the Quidditch team, Cedric Diggory, spoke in his voice in the video game Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This was followed by the role in one episode of the crime drama Joff McQueen's “Purely English Murder” (1984 - 2010). And another role Blake got in the episode of the long-playing medical drama Jeremy Brock and Paul Anvin's "Disaster" (1986 - …).
A year later, the fascinating voice of Blake Ritson was needed by the Dutch company Guerrilla Games to create the image of Colonel Cobar, the character of the video game “Killzone: Liberation” (2006), developed for PSP. Then the actor was invited to the television drama Ian B. MacDonald's Mansfield Park (2007). A little later, they offered small roles in the thriller Ashley Pearce “Commander: The Devil You Know” (2007) and Andy de Emmoni’s military drama “The Judgment of God” (2008).
In 2008, the actor starred in Guy Ritchie's crime thriller “Rock and Roll” (2008). Then he played in the television drama "Emma" (mini-series, 2009), based on the novel of the same name by British writer Jane Austen. The next role Blake Ritson received in the action movie of Alex de Rakoff “Racing with death” (2009). And then he appeared in the mini-series of Mark Manden's “The Crimson Petal and White” (2011).
