Russell Tovey

With an extensive background in film, television and theatre, award winning actor Russell Tovey can most recently be seen starring as Patrick Read in Ryan Murphy’s eleventh season of the FX horror anthology American Horror Story: NYC, as well as Billy Brooks in Sony’s Screen Gems romantic drama It’s All Coming Back To Me with Celine Dion and Priyanka Chopra. Apart from acting, Russell is also a passionate art collector, “art geek”, and co-hosts art podcast, Talk Art, with friend and gallerist Robert Diament, where their aim is to make art more accessible through interviewing leading artists, curators, celebrities and gallerists about their shared passion of art and have interviewed world renowned names such as Sir Elton John, Billy Porter, Lena Dunham, Edward Enninful and Sharon Stone to name a few. Their first book “Talk Art: Everything You Wanted To Ask About Contemporary Art But Were Afraid To Ask” has been listed as one of The Sunday Times’s Top Ten Bestsellers, and their second book “Talk Art The Interviews” has just been released this spring. Russell was also on the judging panel of the 2021 Turner Prize and has curated a number of exhibitions over the last years including teaming up with Sotheby’s for the ‘Contemporary Curated’ auction where he handpicked a personal edit of works from the most established to the emerging generation of artists, bringing a fresh perspective to the series in the tenth iteration.