Nick Blood

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

Nick Blood
Blood at the MCM London Comic Con in 2015
Born	(1982-03-20) 20 March 1982 Aylesbury, England
Nationality	English
Alma mater	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2009–present
Website	www.goodbestbetter.com

Blood is also co-creative director, founder and writer for "Good, Best, Better" and is developing a short film and television series.[2]

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.[3] Blood went to local school Wingrave C&E before he was a pupil at Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School in Aylesbury. Blood subsequently attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[4]

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).[5][6]

In 2011, he appeared in the Channel 4 drama Misfits as the coma victim, Dom, Jen's boyfriend.[7] In 2011, he was announced to play the role of Kieran, a butcher, in fictitious "Valco" in the Sky1 sitcom Trollied.[6][8][9][10] 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.

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.[11]

Theatre

In 2009, Blood formed a theatre company called "WE. BUY. GOLD" with his friend at LAMDA, Tom McCall.[4]

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.[3]

In 2011, he appeared in Backbeat which told the story of the formation and early years of The Beatles.[4] 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.[3] 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]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Spike Island	Dave Famous
2014	X Moor	Matt
	Between Places	Christian	Short film
	Red Lobster	Himself	Short film
	Commitment	Tube Male	Short film Post-production
2015	Brand New-U	Johan	Post-production
	Hero	N/A	Short film Director
2019	Say My Name	Statton

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	The Bill	Mick Jones	2 episodes: "Smash and Grab: Part 1", "Smash and Grab: Part 2"
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	1 episode: "Episode #3.5"
2011-2013	Trollied	Kieran	Main cast 26 episodes
2012	Public Enemies	Glen Smithfield	2 episodes: "Pilot", "Episode #1.2"
2013	Him & Her	Lee	Recurring cast (season 4) 5 episodes
2014	The Bletchley Circle	Ben Gladstone	Recurring cast (season 2) 4 episodes
2014–2016, 2017	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	Lance Hunter	Main cast (season 2-3) 35 episodes Guest star (season 5) Episode: "Rewind"
2014	Babylon	Warwick	Main cast 7 episodes
2016	Marvel's Most Wanted	Lance Hunter	TV pilot (unaired)
2019	Euphoria	Gus Howard	Episode: "The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Pee While Depressed"

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2014	Dragon Age: Inquisition	Hall the Archer (voice)
2018	Vampyr	Agamemnon, Harry, Lord Hamersley, Pericles, Priwen Guard 2, Thomas (voices)

References

1. "Nick Blood". IMDB. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
2. "Good Best Better Home Page". Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
3. Palme, Sandra. "Interview with Nick Blood". Archived from the original on 24 November 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
4. ABC Team. "Lance Hunter. Played by Nick Blood". abc.go.com. Archived from the original on 2 January 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
5. "Material Girl". BBC. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
6. BWW News Desk. "Nick Blood, Andrew Knott And More Lead BACKBEAT At Duke of York's". Retrieved 28 November 2011.
7. "Misfits episode 5, acting review Review of Misfit's episode 5 and Lauren Socha's acting performance". Oh no they Didn't!. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
8. "Trollied". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
9. "Trollied: Nick Blood plays Kieran". Retrieved 28 November 2011.
10. Robinson, John (3 August 2011). "Tv highlights". London: The Guardian UK. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
11. Ching, Albert (25 July 2014). "SDCC: Marvel TV Presents "Agents of SHIELD" and "Agent Carter"". CBR. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
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.
13. Royal Court Theatre#Productions 2008 .E2.80.93 May 2013
14. 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.

External links

• Nick Blood on IMDb