Richard Cunningham is an English actor known for playing Ryall in Stephen Poliakoff's Golden Globe winning Dancing on the Edge, for the BBC with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthew Goode. Other television appearances include playing Barry Flowers in the Law and Order: UK episode Help, the Sherlock episode "A Scandal in Belgravia" and in series 1 of Law and Order UK, the first actor to play two different roles in the series. In 2013 he appeared as Norman Wright in Hollyoaks He also appears in the Warner Brothers film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. He appeared in the 2014 Hammer Films movie The Quiet Ones, with Jared Harris, and Disney's The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared. He recently completed shooting a new British thriller Breakdown with Craig Fairbrass, James Cosmo and Emmett J. Scanlan and Andrew Haigh's new film "45 Years" with Charlotte Rampling. Theatre roles include playing the Commander in Fuente Ovejuna at the Southwark Playhouse and Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink at the Aldwych Theatre.