Joe Armstrong

Joe Armstrong

Born: October 7, 1978
in London, England
Joe Armstrong is an English actor, best known for his roles in the television series Robin Hood, Happy Valley, and The Village. He has also starred in films such as Darkest Hour and The Hollow Crown.

Armstrong was born in Hammersmith, London, England, in 1978. He is the son of actor Alun Armstrong. He has an older brother, Tom, and a younger brother, Dan, who was in the band Clock Opera. He attended Elliott School in Putney from 1993 to 1997. He then studied at the University of Bristol, where he acted in The Brecht Project—a collection of scenes from the works of Bertolt Brecht—in 1998 and Women Beware Women in 1999.

Armstrong's first major television role came in 2006, when he was cast as Allan A Dale in the BBC series Robin Hood. He remained with the series for all three seasons, which aired from 2006 to 2009.

In 2014, Armstrong starred in the BBC series Happy Valley as Ashley Cowgill, a police officer who is investigating a murder in a small Yorkshire town. The series was a critical and commercial success, and Armstrong's performance was praised by critics.

In 2017, Armstrong starred in the BBC series The Village as Bairstow, a newcomer to a small English village who is hiding a dark secret. The series was also a critical and commercial success, and Armstrong's performance was praised by critics.

Armstrong is currently filming the upcoming television series The Undeclared War, a six-part thriller series for Channel 4. He will play the role of Daniel Granger, a computer analyst who is recruited by the government to help with a cyberwarfare operation.

Movies for Joe Armstrong...

Title: Fool Me Once
Character: Alexander Dosman
Released: January 1, 2024
Type: TV
When ex-soldier Maya sees her murdered husband on a secret nanny cam, she uncovers a deadly conspiracy that stretches deep into the past.
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Title: Gentleman Jack
Character: Samuel Washington
Released: April 22, 2019
Type: TV
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
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Title: The Bay
Character: Dean Metcalf
Released: March 20, 2019
Type: TV
Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
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Title: Britannia
Character: Gildas
Released: January 18, 2018
Type: TV
An epic drama set in 43AD as the Roman Imperial Army – determined and terrified in equal measure - returns to crush the Celtic heart of Britannia - a mysterious land ruled by warrior women and powerful druids who can channel the powerful forces of the underworld. Or so they say.
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Darkest Hour
Title: Darkest Hour
Character: John Evans
Released: November 22, 2017
Type: Movie
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
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To Walk Invisible
Title: To Walk Invisible
Character: Thomas Mallinson
Released: December 26, 2016
Type: Movie
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
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Title: Dark Angel
Character: Joe Nattras
Released: October 31, 2016
Type: TV
The story of Victorian serial killer Mary Ann Cotton, a poisoner whose methods leave no visible scars, allowing her tally of victims to mount, unsuspected by a Victorian society unable to conceive of a woman capable of such terrible crimes. Traveling around the North East, she insinuates herself into unsuspecting families, marrying and creating new families of her own - before killing them, taking their money and moving on.
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Title: Happy Valley
Character: Ashley Cowgill
Released: April 29, 2014
Type: TV
Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
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Closer to the Moon
Title: Closer to the Moon
Character: Răzvan Orodel
Released: March 7, 2014
Type: Movie
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
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Title: The Village
Character: Bairstow
Released: March 31, 2013
Type: TV
The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton.
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Title: The Hollow Crown
Character: Hotspur
Released: June 30, 2012
Type: TV
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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Title: Public Enemies
Released: January 4, 2012
Type: TV
Public Enemies explores the relationship between 28-year-old Eddie, recently released on life licence from prison after serving 10 years, and his probation officer, Paula, returning from suspension following a shocking crime committed by an offender under her supervision.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Nick Shelton
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: TV
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
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Title: A Passionate Woman
Character: Donald (1950s)
Released: April 11, 2010
Type: TV
1950s period drama based on the true story of a housewife and mother whose life is turned upside down by a handsome Polish man at her local dance hall.
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Title: Land Girls
Character: Danny Sparks
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
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Breaking the Mould
Title: Breaking the Mould
Character: Norman Heatley
Released: July 29, 2009
Type: Movie
A historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930's/40's, by a group of scientists in Oxford at The Dunn School of Pathology
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Title: Party Animals
Released: January 31, 2007
Type: TV
Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic, high-stakes world. It's no wonder their personal lives are so messy. Sons of an ex-Labour MP, Scott and Danny Foster have politics in their blood.
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Title: Robin Hood
Character: Allan
Released: October 7, 2006
Type: TV
An updated series following the life of Robin Hood and his Merry Men in Sherwood forest. Together they steal from the rich and give to the poor - all the while avoiding their enemies Sir Guy of Gisborne and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
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Title: Blackpool
Released: November 11, 2004
Type: TV
Ripley Holden is a small-time entrepreneur desperate to make it big with his new state-of-the-art amusement arcade. The opening extravaganza is overshadowed by the find of a dead body on the premises. DI Carlisle is called in and quickly finds he has more on his mind than murder, when he falls in love with Ripley's long-suffering wife.
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Title: Hustle
Character: Joe Ryan
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: TV
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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Title: Between The Sheets
Character: Richard Lloyd
Released: November 17, 2003
Type: TV
Between the Sheets is a 2003 British television mini-series. This carnal, comedic drama is based around the love life and sexual hangups of several different couples that are all linked in some way. Emotional, touching, and sometimes humorous, the story follows these couples as they are forced to face their demons.
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Title: Foyle's War
Released: October 27, 2002
Type: TV
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
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Title: Rose and Maloney
Released: September 29, 2002
Type: TV
Rose and Maloney investigate old criminal cases, seeking to rectify miscarriages of justice.
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Title: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Character: Darren
Released: April 8, 2002
Type: TV
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Jason Murphy
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: David Cooke
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Title: A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Follows Ruth Ellis, a nightclub hostess who was hanged at the age of 28 after fatally shooting her abusive lover, David Blakely.