Rhashan Stone
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Rhashan Stone is a British-American actor, comedian, musician, composer, singer and playwright. He is best known for appearing in many BBC
television comedy shows such as Desmond's
and Mutual Friends
. As well as his numerous television appearances, Rhashan is also an accomplished stage actor. He has performed in numerous productions for The Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre, The Royal Court
and in London's West End
. From the heroic soldier Claudio
in Much Ado About Nothing
to the Drag queen
Sanzo in Trance
. From Hero in the Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
to Shakespeare's brother Clarence
in Richard III
. He is also an accomplished singer and musician. He sings and writes in a wide range of styles including Jazz, Soul & Gospel. He is also a classically trained musician and composer.
. His mother was Joanne Stone, he never knew who his father was. When he was six years old his mother remarried. She married an English singer called Russell Oliver (later Russell Stone) and they moved to Norfolk
to live with him. Together his mother and stepfather they formed the singing duo R&J Stone
. They were very successful and became known for their song "We Do It
". His aunt Madeline Bell
also joined the music industry and became the lead singer for Blue Mink
. Stone himself also became a multi-instrumentalist; he played the guitar, piano, drum kit, oboe, trumpet and trombone. When he was 11 his mother passed away. Stone joined Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
and before he even graduated he was offered a role in a play called "Five Guys Named Moe
". He has worked consistently ever since in theatre and television.
in 2003 and had two children Esmé Ruby and Roxana May.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
television comedy shows such as Desmond's
Desmond's
Desmond's is a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. The first series was shot in 1988, with the first episode broadcast in January 1989...
and Mutual Friends
Mutual Friends
Mutual Friends is a British comedy drama television series broadcast in six episodes on BBC One in 2008. The series starred Marc Warren, Alexander Armstrong, Keeley Hawes, Sarah Alexander, Claire Rushbrook, Emily Joyce, Naomi Bentley and Joshua Sarphie as a group of old friends whose lives are...
. As well as his numerous television appearances, Rhashan is also an accomplished stage actor. He has performed in numerous productions for The Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre, The Royal Court
The Royal Court
The Royal Court is a music production crew created by producer King Logan King arrived on the scene in 2007 with the hit single "Ice Box" by Omarion , co-produced with Timbaland, which generated over 100,000 radio spins and fostered more than 15 remixes.-Omarion - 21:*"Ice Box" *"Beg For It" The...
and in London's West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
. From the heroic soldier Claudio
Claudio
Claudio is an Italian first name, derived from Latin Claudius. Claudio is also used in other Latin countries like Portugal and Spain. It may refer to:...
in Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero....
to the Drag queen
Drag queen
A drag queen is a man who dresses, and usually acts, like a caricature woman often for the purpose of entertaining. There are many kinds of drag artists and they vary greatly, from professionals who have starred in films to people who just try it once. Drag queens also vary by class and culture and...
Sanzo in Trance
Trance
Trance denotes a variety of processes, ecstasy, techniques, modalities and states of mind, awareness and consciousness. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.The term trance may be associated with meditation, magic, flow, and prayer...
. From Hero in the Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart....
to Shakespeare's brother Clarence
Clarence
Clarence may refer to:* Clarence * Clarence , a type of carriage* Clarence House, a royal home in London-Australia:* Clarence, New South Wales, a place near Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia...
in Richard III
Richard III (play)
Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified...
. He is also an accomplished singer and musician. He sings and writes in a wide range of styles including Jazz, Soul & Gospel. He is also a classically trained musician and composer.
Early life
Stone was born in a small town in New JerseyNew Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. His mother was Joanne Stone, he never knew who his father was. When he was six years old his mother remarried. She married an English singer called Russell Oliver (later Russell Stone) and they moved to Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
to live with him. Together his mother and stepfather they formed the singing duo R&J Stone
R&J Stone
R&J Stone were an English husband and wife duo, Russell Oliver and Joanne Stone. They had a hit single in the mid 1970s with their self penned song "We Do It". The track was produced by Phil Swern. Some time after their hit, Russell Stone decided that he did not want to remain as a singer, and...
. They were very successful and became known for their song "We Do It
We Do It
"We Do It" is the name of a song written by Russell Stone, who was the male half of the husband and wife duo R&J Stone. It was produced by Phil Swern, and it became a hit in 1976, peaking at #5 on the UK Singles Chart....
". His aunt Madeline Bell
Madeline Bell
Madeline Bell is an American soul singer, who became famous as a performer in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, having arrived from the US in the gospel show Black Nativity in 1962, with vocal group The Bradford Singers.-Career:She worked as a session singer, most notably backing for Dusty...
also joined the music industry and became the lead singer for Blue Mink
Blue Mink
Blue Mink was a British five-piece pop group, that existed from 1969 to 1974. Over that period they had six Top 20 hit singles in the UK Singles Chart, and released five studio based albums...
. Stone himself also became a multi-instrumentalist; he played the guitar, piano, drum kit, oboe, trumpet and trombone. When he was 11 his mother passed away. Stone joined Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts is an independent drama school situated in the Wood Green area of North London. It was founded in 1945 by Peter Coxhead and Ralph Nossek as 'The Mountview Theatre Club', an amateur repertory company staging a new production for a six-day run every second week...
and before he even graduated he was offered a role in a play called "Five Guys Named Moe
Five Guys Named Moe
Five Guys Named Moe is a musical with a book by Clarke Peters and lyrics and music by Louis Jordan and others. The musical originated in the UK in 1990 at Theatre Royal Stratford East, running for over four years in the West End, and then premiering on Broadway in 1992...
". He has worked consistently ever since in theatre and television.
Filmography
- Horrible HistoriesHorrible Histories (2009 TV series)Horrible Histories is an award-winning British children's television series based on the Terry Deary book series of the same name. The first series was thirteen episodes long, and was broadcast from 16 April to 9 July 2009 on CBBC on BBC One. A second series, of twelve episodes , aired from 31 May...
- EpisodesEpisodes (TV series)Episodes is a British/American television sitcom serial created by David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik and produced by Hat Trick Productions. It premiered on Showtime on January 9, 2011 at 9:30 pm and began airing on BBC Two on 10 January 2011 at 10 pm...
- Strike Back: Project DawnStrike Back: Project DawnStrike Back: Project Dawn, as it is known in the United Kingdom is a ten-part British-American action television serial, and is the second series of Strike Back. However the only cast member to return from the original series was Richard Armitage in the first episode...
- DollhouseDollhouse (TV series)Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon under Mutant Enemy Productions. It premiered on February 13, 2009, on the Fox network and was officially cancelled on November 11, 2009. The final episode aired on January 29, 2010...
- The Armstrong and Miller ShowThe Armstrong and Miller ShowThe Armstrong and Miller Show is a British sketch comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. It features the double act Armstrong and Miller and a number of notable scriptwriters including Andy Hamilton and The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson.The series followed four...
- Land Girls
- Taking the FlakTaking The FlakTaking the Flak is a comedy drama which aired on BBC Two in summer 2009. It is set in a fictional Central African country that is the middle of a civil war. A team of BBC journalists arrive from London, to the annoyance of the local BBC stringer Harry Chambers , and send reports back to BBC News...
- OutnumberedOutnumberedOutnumbered is a British sitcom. Airing on BBC One since 2007, it stars Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner as a father and mother outnumbered by their three children...
- Mutual FriendsMutual FriendsMutual Friends is a British comedy drama television series broadcast in six episodes on BBC One in 2008. The series starred Marc Warren, Alexander Armstrong, Keeley Hawes, Sarah Alexander, Claire Rushbrook, Emily Joyce, Naomi Bentley and Joshua Sarphie as a group of old friends whose lives are...
- Three and OutThree and OutThree And Out is a 2008 British comedy film directed by Jonathan Gershfield. It premiered in London on the 21 April 2008 and was released in the UK and Ireland on 25 April 2008.-Plot:...
- Love SoupLove SoupLove Soup is a British television comedy-drama produced by the BBC and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005. It stars Tamsin Greig as Alice Chenery and Michael Landes as Gil Raymond . The series is written by David Renwick of One Foot in the Grave fame, and was produced by Verity Lambert...
- Bike Squad
- CasualtyCasualty (TV series)Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
- Perfect Day: The Millennium
- Perfect DayPerfect Day (TV film)Perfect Day was a two hour television movie, initially broadcast on Five in December, 2005.Centered around a group of university friends who reunite five years later for the wedding of Tom and Amy , it tells the story of old loves rekindled, marriages falling apart and the problems of career women...
- BodiesBodies (TV series)Bodies is a BAFTA-nominated British television medical drama produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. Created by Jed Mercurio, the series began in 2004 and is based on his book Bodies. The first series debuted on BBC Three as the channel at this time was trying to break out into hour-long...
- The CrouchesThe CrouchesThe Crouches is a sitcom which aired on BBC One between 2003 and 2005. The show stars Rudolph Walker, who played Robbie Gee's father, and Mona Hammond, who played Jo's mother. Also other main casts were Robbie Gee and Jo Martin. The show was not well received by critics and only two series were...
- Wondrous OblivionWondrous OblivionWondrous Oblivion is a 2003 British film directed and written by Paul Morrison and produced by Jonny Persey.Set in suburban south London in 1960, several themes run through the film, though the main storyline concerns the friendship between a young boy, David Wiseman who is the son of European...
- The BillThe BillThe Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
- Holby CityHolby CityHolby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
- Picking up the PiecesPicking Up The Pieces"Picking Up the Pieces" was a single released from Difford & Tilbrook's self-titled debut album in the United States.-Track listing:# "Picking Up the Pieces" # "Within These Walls"...
- The DetectivesThe DetectivesThe Detectives is a British comedy television series, starring Jasper Carrott, Robert Powell, and George Sewell. It was a spoof of police dramas, which were numerous in the 1990s, and it was aired on BBC One...
- Goodnight SweetheartGoodnight SweetheartGoodnight Sweetheart is a sitcom that ran for six series on BBC1 from 1993 to 1999. It stars Nicholas Lyndhurst as Gary Sparrow, an accidental time traveller who leads a double life after discovering a time portal allowing him to travel between the London of the 1990s and the same area during the...
- Desmond'sDesmond'sDesmond's is a British television situation comedy broadcast by Channel 4 from 1989 to 1994. The first series was shot in 1988, with the first episode broadcast in January 1989...
Personal life
Rhashan married actress Olivia WilliamsOlivia Williams
Olivia Haigh Williams is an English film, stage and television actress who has appeared in British and American films and television series.-Early life:Williams was born in Camden Town, London, England...
in 2003 and had two children Esmé Ruby and Roxana May.