Nick Blood
Blood in 2015
Born (1982-03-20) 20 March 1982 (age 42)
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Alma materLondon Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
OccupationActor
Years active2009–present

Nick Blood (born 20 March 1982) is an English actor.[1] He is known for his roles as Lance Hunter in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Kieran in Trollied.

Early life

Blood was born in Aylesbury, England. He joined his local drama club at the age of 7 and soon realized that he wanted to become an actor.[2] Blood went to local Wingrave Church of England Primary School before he was a pupil at Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School in Aylesbury, followed by sixth form at Cedars Upper School for A Levels before attending Bristol University. He found his pathway into acting via the ITV Drama Club. Blood subsequently attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[3]

Career

Film and television

Blood's first acting role came in the 25th series of The Bill in a two-episode story of an armed robbery at a toy shop.

He had a role as Alex, Ali's gay flatmate who works as a designer, in the BBC drama Material Girl (2010).[4][5]

In 2011, he appeared in the Channel 4 drama Misfits as the coma victim, Dom, Jen's boyfriend.[6] In 2011, he was announced to play the role of Kieran, a butcher, in fictitious "Valco" in the Sky1 sitcom Trollied.[5][7][8][9] Blood left the show in the finale of Season 3.

In 2012, Blood gained his first feature film role as Davy Famous in Spike Island.

In 2013, he appeared in the final season of Him & Her as Becky's ex-boyfriend, Lee. Him & Her appears on BBC Three. Lee is a charming young lad which Becky's parents adore very much and prefer to be Becky's boyfriend more than Steve, who is played by Russell Tovey, and is Becky's fiancé. In 2014, Blood appeared in ITV's mystery drama The Bletchley Circle, as Ben, a police officer. Blood also appeared in the Channel 4 police comedy-satire Babylon. He also provides a voice in the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition. In 2018, he played Adam in the indie thriller, Still.

Blood became a regular on the second season of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as Lance Hunter, a mercenary whom Coulson turns to for help and who agrees to join S.H.I.E.L.D. His character is later forced to retire from S.H.I.E.L.D. prior to the season 3 finale.[10] He returns in season 5's episode "Rewind".[11]

Theatre

In 2009, Blood formed a theatre company called "WE. BUY. GOLD" with his friend at LAMDA, Tom McCall.[3]

WE. BUY. GOLD.'s debut show, Inches Apart, which was co-written and starred Blood, was entered into the Old Vic New Voices Theatre503 Award, which it subsequently won. The Old Vic then produced a full professional production at Theatre503, which ran from 12 May to 13 June 2009.[12]

Blood made his professional stage debut in 2009 in The Priory as Adam, at the Royal Court Theatre which ran from 19 November 2009 to 16 January 2010.[13] In 2010, he went on to perform as Sordido in a modern adaptation of the Jacobean tragedy Women Beware Women at the National Theatre, directed by award-winning Marianne Elliott.[2]

In 2011, he appeared in Backbeat which told the story of the formation and early years of The Beatles.[3] It ran in the Duke of York's Theatre from 10 October 2011 to 18 February 2012, and Blood played the lead role of the "fifth Beatle" Stuart Sutcliffe. Due to the musical nature of the role he has learned to play bass guitar, and also subsequently joined a band, Shaaark.[2] The show was an overwhelming critical success during its West End run.[14] This success took the show to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from 24 August 2012 to 31 August 2012, for a run of seven days.[14][15]

Personal life

Blood is a lifelong supporter of Liverpool F.C.[16]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2012 Spike Island Dave Famous
2014 X Moor Matt
Between Places Christian Short film
Red Lobster Himself
Commitment Tube Male
2015 Brand New-U Johan
Hero — Short film
Director
2019 Say My Name Statton
2023 The Offering Arthur
2023 Lovely, Dark, and Deep Jackson

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2009 The Bill Mick Jones 2 episodes
2010 Material Girl Alex Main cast; 6 episodes
Stanley Park Harry Stevens Main cast; Pilot
Combat Kids Paul Main cast; 3 episodes
2011 Misfits Dom Episode #3.5
2011–2013 Trollied Kieran Main cast; 26 episodes
2012 Public Enemies Glen Smithfield 2 episodes
2013 Him & Her Lee Recurring cast (season 4); 5 episodes
2014 The Bletchley Circle Ben Gladstone Recurring cast (season 2); 4 episodes
2014–2017 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Lance Hunter Main cast (season 2–3), guest star (season 5); 36 episodes
2014 Babylon Warwick Main cast; 7 episodes
2016 Marvel's Most Wanted Lance Hunter TV pilot (unaired)
2019–2022 Euphoria Gus Howard Recurring cast (season 1–2); 5 episodes
2020 Strike Jimmy Knight Guest cast (series 4); 4 episodes
2021 Close to Me Thomas 6 episodes
2022 Andor Corporal Kimzi Episode 5 & 6
2023 Rain Dogs Mason 2 episodes[17]
2023 Slow Horses Sturges 4 episodes

Video games

Year Title Role
2014 Dragon Age: Inquisition Hall the Archer (voice)
2018 Vampyr Agamemnon, Harry, Lord Hamersley, Pericles, Priwen Guards, Thomas (voices)
2023 Final Fantasy XVI Tiamut (voice)

References

  1. ^ "Nick Blood". IMDB. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
  2. ^ a b c Palme, Sandra. "Interview with Nick Blood". Archived from the original on 24 November 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  3. ^ a b c ABC Team. "Lance Hunter. Played by Nick Blood". abc.go.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  4. ^ "Material Girl". BBC. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  5. ^ a b BWW News Desk. "Nick Blood, Andrew Knott And More Lead BACKBEAT at Duke of York's". Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  6. ^ "Misfits episode 5, acting review Review of Misfit's episode 5 and Lauren Socha's acting performance". Oh no they Didn't!. 27 November 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  7. ^ "Trollied". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  8. ^ "Trollied: Nick Blood plays Kieran". Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  9. ^ Robinson, John (3 August 2011). "Tv highlights". London: The Guardian UK. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  10. ^ Ching, Albert (25 July 2014). "SDCC: Marvel TV Presents "Agents of SHIELD" and "Agent Carter"". CBR. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  11. ^ Holub, Christian (22 December 2017). "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. recap: 'Rewind'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  12. ^ Theatre503 team (2009). "The winner of the Old Vic New Voices Theatre503 Award delights audiences and critics alike. One of this year's boldest theatrical events". theatre503.com. Retrieved 31 December 2014.((cite web)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ Royal Court Theatre#Productions 2008 .E2.80.93 May 2013
  14. ^ a b GoodBestBetter Team (June 2012). "June 2012". goodbestbetter.com. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  15. ^ Royal Alexandra Theatre Team (2012). "BACKBEAT". toronto-theatre.com. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
  16. ^ "Liverpool FC has got Christmas magic on the mind with video launch". Liverpool F.C. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  17. ^ "Rain Dogs". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 27 April 2023.

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