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 films and on television in the 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 very center 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 college at the University of Cambridge, 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 Fleance, the son of General Banquo, in Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth" and Lord Augustus in Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia", staged by Richard Eyre and Trevor Nunn at the National Theater in London.
Career start
The first full-fledged film with Blake Ritson came out back in 1996, when British director Richard Spence offered him a small role in the melodrama Girls Love Different. Then he was invited to filmin one episode of the mini-series No Bananas (1996). And as one of the main characters in Herbert Wise's biographical drama Breaking the Code (1996).
In 1999, together with Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange, the actor starred in Julie Taymor's historical drama Titus Ruler of Rome. A year later, he appeared in two episodes of the television series The League of Gentlemen (1999 - 2002). Played in the British drama Sandra Goldbacher "With You and Without You" (2001). And he became one of the main characters in the television drama of David Richards "Little Red Riding Hood" (2001).
In 2002, Blake Ritson played Alexander Griffon in Duncan Roy's drama The So-Called. From 2003 to 2004, he played Giles Vicary in 12 episodes of Patrick Harbinson's television drama series Little Red Riding Hood (2003-2004). And in 2005, he played the role of Ben Swells in one episode of the BBC docudrama "If …" (2004 - 2006). The series de alt with scenarios of certain crisis situations that, purely theoretically, could hit the UK.
Voice play
The actor was introduced to 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 a role in one episode of the crime drama by Geoff McQueen "Purely English Murder" (1984 - 2010). And Blake got another role in an episode of the long-running medical drama by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin "Catastrophe" (1986 - …).
A year later, the mesmerizing voice of Blake Ritsonwas needed by the Dutch company Guerrilla Games to create the image of Colonel Kobar, the character of the video game "Killzone: Liberation" (2006), developed for the PSP. Then the actor was invited to the television drama Ian B. McDonald "Mansfield Park" (2007). And a little later, they offered small roles in the thriller Ashley Pierce "The Commander: The Devil You Know" (2007) and Andy de Emmoni's military drama "The Trial 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. Blake Ritson's next role was in Alex de Rakoff's action thriller Race with Death (2009). And then appeared in the mini-series by Mark Munden "Crimson Petal and White" (2011).
And more games
He returned to the gaming industry in 2011 during the development of the role-playing video game Dark Souls, where Blake voiced Griggs of Vinheim, a wizard locked in a room near the scene of the battle with the demon Capra. From 2010 to 2012, he played the Duke of Kent in the drama series Up and Down Stairs by Heidi Thomas (2010-2012). He also took part in the filming of Roger Michell's comedy Hyde Park on the Hudson (2012).
In 2012, Blake Ritson was cast in the mini-series Infinite World, based on the novel of the same name by Ken Follett. Two years later, he voiced another character in the video game Dark Souls 2, the royal magician Navlaan, who was locked in Aldia's Citadel. In the same year hegot a small role in Suzanne Beer's melodrama "Siren" with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in the lead roles. And then voiced the characters of three more video games: Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014), The Order: 1886 (2015) and Final Fantasy ⅩⅣ: Heavensward (2015).
From 2013 to 2015, Blake Ritson played Girolamo Riario in David S. Goyer's fantasy drama Da Vinci's Demons (2013 - 2015). Then he traditionally voiced a deserter from the Legion of the Undead named Hawkwood in the final part of the Dark Souls trilogy. Played Charlie Havistoka in 10 episodes of Paul Rutman's drama "Indian Summer" (2015 - …). And one of his latest projects is the British series about treasure hunters Mr. Hooten and Lady Alexandra (2016).
