Richard: I don’t really have preferred roles, except those with some complexity. If you’re playing a villain, you like to have a rationale. Why is this person behaving in that way? It can’t just be 'I’m going to kill them all, I want to take over the world!’ Because then your character becomes a functionary, the hero’s opposition and nothing else. You can’t derive any pleasure from that.
Richard: On doing the Dracula accent in "Van Helsing" - God, that was a balancing act. We settled on an accent that was largely Hungarian with some Romanian elements to it. The trick was avoiding the Sesame Street Count.
Richard: On working with wife Silvia Colloca in "Van Helsing" - Yeah, I had to make sure she liked me besides the hair, earring and being dressed head to toe in black. We got beyond that stage, but she was still holding a candle for me when I went to pick her up... after hours.
Richard has won a total of 6 awards, including Australian Film Institute Award Best Actor for Doing Time for Patsy Cline, 1997, Silver Logie Award Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for Blue Murder, 1996 and Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle Award Best Performance by a Lead Actor for Hamlet, 1994.
Richard's family are mainly of English descent. He is one of 6 children.
Although Richard currently lives in New South Wales, he also owns a flat in Notting Hill, London.
Richard met his wife, Silvia Colloca, on the set of Van Helsing. He played Dracula and she played one of his vampire wives. They got married in Tuscany (Italy) a year later.
Richard used to date
Richard played both Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty in two different movies.
Richard is 5' 11" (1.80 m) tall.
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