Hugh Anthony Quarshie (born 22 December 1954) is a Ghanaian-born British actor of stage, television, and film. Some of his best-known roles include his appearances in the films Highlander (1986) and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and his long-running role as Ric Griffin in the BBC medical drama Holby City (2001–present).

Filmography

• The Marlow Murder Club — Professor Gifford
• 2024The Return — Imphinomous
• 2023Book Club: The Next Chapter — Ousmane
• Maryland — Pete
• 2023Rapture
• Riches — Stephen Richards
• 2022The Railway Children Return — General Harrison
• 2022The Son — Doctor Harris
• Stephen — Neville Lawrence
• Breeders — Alex
• McDonald & Dodds — Clarence Adderly
• 2019Skeletons of the Mary Rose — Narrator
• The Capture — Commissioner Cameron Yates
• 2018Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald — Mustafa Kama
• 2018Red Sparrow — Simon Benford
• Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan — Ekon Ameh
• Absentia — Semo Oduwale
• 2017Retribution — DI Reed
• 2015RSC Live: Othello — Othello
• 2013Catherine Tate's Nan vs Holby City — Ric Griffin
• White Heat — Victor (present day)
• 2011Ghosted
• Vera — Dr. Leon Parmer
• The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart — Narrator
• Small Island — Narrator
• 2007A Turtle's Guide to the Pacific — Narrator
• Doctor Who — Solomon
• Celebrity Mastermind
• 2003Conspiracy of Silence — Fr. Joseph Ennis
• The Afternoon Play — Adam Clay
• Ape-Man: Adventures in Human Evolution — Narrator
• Arabian Nights — Mustappa
• 2000It Was an Accident — George Hurlock
• Jason and the Argonauts — Chiron
• BeastMaster
• Holby City — Ric Griffin
• 1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace — Captain Panaka
• 1999The Murder of Stephen Lawrence — Neville Lawrence
• 1999To Walk with Lions — Maxwell
• 1999Wing Commander — Lt. Obutu
• A Respectable Trade — Caesar Peters
• Melissa — George Bond
• Silent Witness — Jomo Mashaba
• She's Out — DCI Ron Craigh
• 1995Solomon & Sheba — Nikaule's Father
• 1994Julius Caesar — Cassius
• 1993Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase — Lieutenant Delaney
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Cassius (voice)
• Virtual Murder — Doctor Mellor
• Medics
• 1990Nightbreed — Detective Joyce
• The Chief — Vincent Pierce
• Behaving Badly
• 1989Loving Hazel — Mike
• Press Gang — Inspector Hibbert
• Surgical Spirit — Fergus Debonaire
• 1989The Church — Father Gus
• 1989Under African Skies: Ethiopia — Presenter
• A Gentleman's Club
• Red Dwarf — Computer (voice)
• Casualty — Ric Griffin, Gordon Hutchens
• 1986Drums Along Balmoral Drive — Wallace
• 1986Highlander — Sunda Kastagir
• ScreenPlay — Wallace, Mike
• 1985Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend — Kenge Obe
• 1985Titus Andronicus — Aaron
• 1984Sharma and Beyond — Man on Stairs
• The Bill
• Natural World — Narrator
• 1983Wide Games — Corporal Chalkie
• 1981A Midsummer Night's Dream — Philostrate
• Wolcott — Dennis St George
• Buccaneer — Major Ndobi
• 1980The Dogs of War — Zangaron Officer
• 1979The Knowledge — Campion
• Rumpole of the Bailey — Jonathan Mazenze
• The Mandy Who Knew Too Much — General Moore

Appearances as themselves (3)

• Remembers… — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• 2002The PhanDom Menace — Self