About Ed

Edmund Fargher is a Television and Theatre Actor originally from Suffolk, England. He moved to London in 2008 where he combined a love and discipline for performance with a background working behind the scenes in the film industry in production departments as well as writing, acting and direction.

Enjoying roles in everything from the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival to Keith Lemon: Coming in America., favourite roles include; Malvolio and Oberon in back to back stage productions of Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, TV comedy sketches on ITV2 and BBCThree, appearances on improvised radio comedy show Dead British on Union Jack Radio, and playing Rob in web series Sideliners.

Ed also fulfilled the roles of co-writer and executive producer on Sideliners, a serialised rom-com send-up that is travelling to film festivals around the world, where the episodes already received awards for Best Pilot, Best Screenplay, and Ed has also received a Best Actor award for his performance as Rob.

He is also a comedian that has trained at improv institutions such as The Second City, the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, iO, The Free Association and Hoopla Impro.

He is represented by Mark Turner at JCM Management.

Photos by A P Wilding, Emma Bailey, Trevor Lee and Amar Chundavadra.