Shakespeare's OTHELLO will come to life in a new production starring David Harewood OBE  as Othello, Toby Jones OBE as Iago ...

David Harewood is to star as Othello in a new production directed by Tom Morris and also featuring Toby Jones and Caitlin ...

Harewood was the first Black actor to play Shakespeare’s doomed Moorish general at the National Theatre; now he returns to the role ...

Harewood had a psychotic episode that meant he was sectioned in his twenties, but he “buried” everything until he worked on the documentary decades later. Reflecting on the breakdown in a new ...

David made the documentary David Harewood: Psychosis and Me. It reflected on his breakdown and looked at the help available to people having similar experiences today. He says making the ...

Warning: This article references strong and racist language. David Harewood was born in Birmingham in 1965, the son of a couple who had moved to England from Barbados. As an actor he found ...

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This new production will see David Harewood return to the title role of Othello, having been the first black actor to ...