Richard Short is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on October 8, 1975 in South Shields, England, United Kingdom. He was understudy for the role of Sloane in Entertaining Mr. Sloane, which Alec Baldwin directed at the Roundabout Theatre. This was his first American stage performance. Short was a part of Vineyard Theatre’s off-Broadway production J.M. Barrie’s Mary Rose was performed by Keir Dullea, Paige Howard and as an Australian World War I veteran.
He followed this with Wasps in Bed at Theatre Row and the successful Bay Street Theatre production of The Night Season opposite Katherine Helmond, Michael O’Keefe and David Patrick Kelly, directed by Lonny Price. In 2007 he was cast in his first American television show, Law & Order: Criminal Intent in the episode “Privilege.”
In the spring of 2009 he wrapped Cafe, a feature film directed by Marc Erlbaum and shot in Philadelphia. Short plays a writer opposite star Jennifer Love Hewitt. Cafe was released in the USA and Europe in 2011. Short was in the feature film The Exhibitionists for director Michael Melamedoff, released in 2013. In 2014 he was cast in three independent films: Cockroaches in Los Angeles and The Butterflies of Bill Baker and A New York Love Story, shot in New York City.
Short toured the UK as Nobby (The Real Monty) in 2001-02, Macbeth in 2003-04, and Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) in 2003-04. Short soon moved to the United States.
Short was a teenager when he joined the Woking Young Players and performed several shows, including Hair, The Boyfriend, and Ways and Means. Short started performing on the stage professionally in 1996 as Johnny Casino in Grease. He was part of the UK tour for the original cast for two years and performed at the Opera House in Manchester, the Playhouse in Edinburgh, the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham, and the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton. From 1999 to 1999, he was a part of the West End production at the Cambridge Theatre in Covent Garden. Short was part of the London Shakespeare Workshops, 1999-2001. He appeared in Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as Richard III and Twelfth Night, with guests like Sam West, Mark Rylance and Richard Dreyfuss.
Short broke into film with the acclaimed independent director Tom DiCillo in Delirious opposite Steve Buscemi and Alison Lohman. The film debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Short was back at Sundance the following year in The Guitar, directed by Amy Redford. He returned to the television screen in both New Amsterdam in the episode “A Soldier’s Heart” and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the episode “Avatar.” He adopted an American accent in 2008 in both The King of Shadows by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa at the Working Theatre and Choose. For the 1930s crime drama Public Enemies, Short had to adopt an American accent to play FBI agent Samuel P. Cowley, the man who brought down Baby Face Nelson, played by Stephen Graham. Short worked with Christian Bale, who stars as agent Melvin Purvis.
