Meet Hugh Anthony Quarshie Ghanaian-born, British actor
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Ghanaian-born British actor Hugh Anthony Quarshie was born in Ghana.?
He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and has acted in numerous stage and television productions, including the Judi Dench-starring series Behaving Badly.
Quarshie had considered becoming a journalist before taking up acting. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has appeared in many stage productions and television programmes, including the serial Behaving Badly with Judi Dench.
He is well known for playing the roles of Sunda Kastagir in Highlander, Captain Panaka in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and Ric Griffin on the television series Holby City. He attended the Star Wars fan event “Star Wars Celebration” in 1999. He portrayed Lieutenant Obutu in Wing Commander.
He is well recognised for his performances as Sunda Kastagir in Highlander, Captain Panaka in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and Ric Griffin in the Holby City television series.
Quarshie has also narrated for television. His work includes the 2006 documentary Mega Falls of Iguacu (about the Igua?u Falls), the 2009 adaptation of Small Island, and the 2010 BBC Wildlife series Great Rift: Africa’s Wild Heart.
In September 2010, he featured in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, in which he traced his Ghanaian and Dutch origins. The episode revealed one of his ancestors to be Pieter Martinus Johannes Kamerling, a Dutch official on the Gold Coast, making Quarshie a distant relative of Dutch actor Antonie Kamerling
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