Christopher Colquhoun currently stars as Derek Crown in the Amazon Original series Absentia, the thriller-drama from Sony Pictures Television’s networks.
Colquhoun has an extensive career both on stage and screen. With television credits that include portraying Dr. Simon Kaminski in Casualty before making appearances in The Bill, Silent Witness, Coronation Street, Law and Order and Missing. Colquhoun was then a series regular in British crime drama Vera, on ITV and also appeared in the critically acclaimed series Fleabag, opposite Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Colquhoun was also in the Channel 4 comedy-drama, Flowers, starring alongside Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt.
Colquhoun has appeared in various theatre productions, most notably the Menier Chocolate Factory’s hit show The Color Purple, for which he was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical at the Broadway World Awards in 2013. He has most recently appeared in the critically acclaimed One Night in Miami, directed by Matthew Xia. Colquhoun was nominated fo
Christopher Colquhoun currently stars as Derek Crown in the Amazon Original series Absentia, the thriller-drama from Sony Pictures Television’s networks.
Colquhoun has an extensive career both on stage and screen. With television credits that include portraying Dr. Simon Kaminski in Casualty before making appearances in The Bill, Silent Witness, Coronation Street, Law and Order and Missing. Colquhoun was then a series regular in British crime drama Vera, on ITV and also appeared in the critically acclaimed series Fleabag, opposite Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Colquhoun was also in the Channel 4 comedy-drama, Flowers, starring alongside Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt.
Colquhoun has appeared in various theatre productions, most notably the Menier Chocolate Factory’s hit show The Color Purple, for which he was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical at the Broadway World Awards in 2013. He has most recently appeared in the critically acclaimed One Night in Miami, directed by Matthew Xia. Colquhoun was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as Banquo in Macbeth, directed by Matthew Dunster at the Royal Exchange in Manchester.
Colquhoun’s other extensive theater credits include Mary Stuart, Yellowman, The Lion King, The Believers, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Britannicus, Happy Now?, Five Guys Named Moe, Troilus and Cressida, The Thief of Baghdad, Three Sisters, Saint Joan, Comedy of Errors, Simply Heavenly, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Blues in the Night, Snake in the Fridge, The Way of the World, Angels in America, The Slow Drag, Romeo and Juliet, Five Guys Named Moe, Moby Dick, King Lear, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Woza Albert and Gates of Paradise.
