Cyril Nri – interview

Further than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris
Young Vic
Interview by: Christina Nicole
Published: Wednesday 02 March 2023, 8:30am

Cyril Nri plays Bill in Zinnie Harris’ Further than the Furthest Thing.

Cyril Nri bio

Theatre includes: Trouble In Mind, The Barbershop Chronicles, Our Country’s Good, The Observer (Royal National Theatre); Vassa, Desire (Almeida Theatre); The Weatherman (Park Theatre); Hamlet, Kiss Me Kate, Breaking The Ice, Life’s A Dream, Volpone, Henry VIII, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar (RSC); The Absence of War (Headlong Theatre); Black Jesus (Finborough Theatre Club); Julius Caesar (RSC/BAM, New York and RSC/West End); The Riots, Playboy of the West Indies, The Piano Lesson, All Or Nothing (Tricycle Theatre); Mad About the Boy (Iron Shoes/Edinburgh Festival); Oxford St, An Infidel in the Upper Room, Where Do We Live, Search And Destroy (Royal Court); Othello (Birmingham Stage Co.);

The Exonerated (Riverside Studios); The Darker Face Of The Earth, The Way Of The World (RNT); Road (Cochrane Theatre); Blood Wedding (National Theatre); The Dragon Can’t Dance (Stratford East); Macbeth (RNT/American Tour); The Tempest (Old Vic); Serious Money (Wyndhams); Ficky Stingers, A Colder Climate, Prairie Du Chien, Edmund (Royal Court); The Price Of Experience (Traverse); Ridley Walker, Class K, Great Expectations (Royal Exchange); Oedipus Rex (Contact Theatre)

Television includes: Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (Netflix); The Power; Noughts and Crosses; Devils; Zapped Series 3; The ABC Murders (BBC/Amazon); Midsomer Murders; Class, Waking the Dead (BBC); Death In Paradise (Red Planet Pictures); Cucumber (Red Productions/Channel 4); Critical (Hat Trick Productions); Crims, Doctors (BBC TV); Law and Order (Kudos Productions); Julius Caesar (BBC/Illumination Media); Holby City, New Tricks, Down to Earth II, Doctors III, Eastenders, Holby City, Goodnight Sweetheart, Casualty, Calling The Shots (BBC);

Sarah Jane Series 4 (DW Productions Ltd); Cold Blood (Granada); The Bill (Thames); Family Affairs (Channel 5); Arabian Nights, Only Love (Hallmark Entertainment); Maisie Raine II (Fair Game Films); A Touch of Frost (ITV), This Life (Select TV); Frank Stubbs Promotes (Noel Gay TV); A Strike Out Of Time; Brook Prods; Saracen (Central TV)

 Film includes: The Witches (Warner Brothers); Backdraft 2 (RDL Productions); Jellyfish (Bankside Films); Long Time Dead (Lola Productions); Beseiged (RAI); Tale the Mummy (Carousel Pictures); The Steal (Poseidon Pictures); Strapless (Channel 4 Films)

NEED TO KNOW: Further than the Furthest thing plays at the Young Vic from 9 March to 29 April 2023. See listing