And The Terror makes us watch it all, enduring the thirty lashes — more, since Crozier calls out an angry “Again!” every time the whip catches on something and thus softens the blow — right along with him. In 2017, Nagaitis performed the main character of Ben in the BBC Radio 4 drama series The Archivist. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. In 2012, he performed the character of Julien on BBC Radio 4 drama Une Vie. Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television series directed by Johan Renck and Craig Mazin. In a visceral mini-monologue, she recalls attempting to understand what Sir John goes through in his voyages through cold climates by standing outside in the snow for as long as she could bear. IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database.

Nagaitis received a BA in Acting from RADA in 2012. It was Lady Jane who encouraged her husband to lead the new Northwest Passage expedition, telling him that success would redeem his past political failures. Moreover, his net worth can be speculated to be somewhere close to $500k.

Abruptly ending the episode on the good doctor’s attempt to tell Silence his name — “Goodsir” — is a more provocative way to explore what being a member of the British Navy at the height of the Empire means than a more direct approach. Starting in 2014, actor Adam Nagaitis has worked in a handful of television series and films. Here's everything you need to know about Jessica Buckley's Lyudmilla and Adam Nagaitis' Vasily. It was she, too, who firmly shut down the courtship of her niece Sophia by Captain Crozier, Sir John’s second in command, adding steel to Sophia’s own half-hearted objections about his unpredictable job, his middle-class background, and his Irishness.

All of our TV reviews in one convenient place. But Mr. Hickey’s kidnapping of Silence at last gives the Captain something he feels passionate about commanding: punishment. British actor Adam Nagaitis gained wide-spread attention in 2019 after playing the main role in a historical television miniseries, Chernobyl.

But for his disrespectful conduct, for his extremely un-Navy-like speculation about the creature’s supernatural origin and supposition that Silence is some kind of sorceress, and for his overall affect as a smirk in human form — as well, one can infer, as his personal sexual habits, which are an open secret among at least a few members of the crew — Hickey gets the worst of it. To be updated with all the latest news, offers and special announcements.

Adam studied acting at Stella Adler Conservatory in New York and Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London before he kicked off his acting career. As Lady Silence, Nive Nielsen has one of the great “you’ve gotta be shitting me” faces on TV right now.

The goal is not just pain, but humiliation. [3] In 2002, his father died after being struck by a bus while shopping in Manchester. Adam Nagaitis was born Adam Matthew Nagaitis on June 7, 1985, in Chorley, Lancashire, England. The smart staging, incisive writing, and deft acting transform a normally thankless role in a strictly utilitarian plot beat — worried wife begs for help — into something active, engaging, revealing.