Richard Madden
Madden in 2012, photo by PrPhotos
Place of Birth: Elderslie, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Date of Birth: 18 June, 1986
Ethnicity: Irish, Scottish
Richard Madden is a Scottish film, stage, and television actor. He is known for portraying Robb Stark in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
Richard grew up in Elderslie, Scotland. His mother, Pat, is a classroom assistant, and his father, Richard, is in the fire service. He has two sisters, Cara and Lauren.
His mother’s maiden name is said to be Mulholland. Both Madden and Mulholland are often Irish surnames.
At the age of eleven, Richard joined Paisley Arts Centre’s youth theatre programme to help overcome his shyness. He was soon cast as young Andy in the film adaptation of Iain Banks’ Complicity, which he followed by playing a lead role, Sebastian, in the television series Barmy Aunt Boomerang.
Madden is also an Irish surname but I’m not going to claim him as Irish because of his surname.
http://www.houseofnames.com/madden-family-crest
1 of my grandparents has an Irish surnames, but I dont know of any Irish ancestry
It was made a bit tongue in cheek because with some other celebrities they go by the surname. I’ve no doubt somewhere down the line he has some Irish in him though. People in Scotland didn’t take on Irish names or England didn’t take on Irish names.
Correction, his hair is red
He has just brown hair. That is most certainly not red hair.
perhaps auburn?
I dont think so. His hair looks just brown to me
there was better photo of him on wiki http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Richard_Madden_2009_cropped.jpg why did you not use that 1?
looks like this Welshman.
http://i2.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article1870321.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/leigh-halfpenny-928962350-1870321.jpg
Leigh Halfpenny hes a rugby player http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/13/article-0-1293A302000005DC-734_634x510.jpg