Anthony Howell was born in 1971 in the Lake District in England. He is best known for his role as Sgt Paul Milner, assistan to Michael Kitchen in the great television series “Foyle’s War”. His other television credits include “The Other Boleyn Girl” and “Hawking”.
Anthony Howell was born in 1971 in the Lake District in England. He trained to be an actor at the ‘Drama Centre.’ His acting debut came when he went on a world tour with Robert Lepage’s ‘Geometry of Miracles’. Then came Wives and Daughters (1999). Along with his TV work, he took a year out and appeared in the 1999-2000 RSC season in Stratford-Upon-Avon, where he took major roles in the three main plays of that season: Orlando in ‘As You Like It’, Benvolio in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and Antipholous of Ephesus in ‘The Comedy of Errors’.
More recently, he has taken up the role of Paul Milner in Foyle’s War (2002), with David Tennant, who starred alongside him in the RSC, and is currently filming series two.
– IMDb Mini Biography By: Mrs Anthony Howell <HarchesterBabe@aol.com>
Prepared for his role as wounded ex-soldier Paul Milner in
Foyle’s War (2002), by visiting libraries, museums and hospitals to learn all he could about the experience of a soldier injured in combat.
Personal Quotes. “It’s my first home so I’ve been buying furniture, painting and putting up shelves and cupboards. It’s great to have a place of my own, but I still see my family often as we are very close. My parents are really supportive and come and watch everything I do. I have just bought myself a wonderful oil painting by Richard Whadcock. It’s my present to myself after filming and it’s my first proper painting. I’d like to buy one a year because it would be nice to look back and associate a painting with a time in my life. I enjoy horse riding, tennis, yoga and running – it helps to clear my head and I can do bits of yoga in between filming. You only have to turn on the telly to see what has happened in the aftermath of Iraq or any of the countries that have been at war over the last few years to see the devastation that people face. In the new series of Foyle’s War, London starts to get bombed and the country falls under heavy attack. It affects people’s sense of well-being, their sense of the future and their concerns for their family and friends. All those emotions you can still see in the eyes of people who are suffering today. The sad thing is that war goes on.
