Richard Armitage Central is the newest, unofficial website for the oldest, dedicated Richard Armitage fan forum, the Armitage Army @ Richard Armitage Central. Here we celebrate the work and talents of the English actor, Richard Armitage, and the members of the fan forum his work inspires.

Here, as well as an

UPDATES page

you will find

CAREER pages

giving you just a small taste of his varied career which began over 20 years ago and has led him to theatre, television, film and voice work.

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the

RICHARD ARMITAGE CENTRAL GALLERY,

one of the largest and most comprehensive Richard Armitage picture galleries, with more than 50,000 pictures from most of his productions; it is updated with every new work, interview and appearance.

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a MEDIA page

of downloads of interviews and audio work.

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a growing, searchable

LIBRARY

with over 300 newspaper articles and scans. We also have a library of transcriptions of Richard’s television, radio and dvd interviews which are also regularly updated.

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It is a rare interviewer who does not ask Richard, ‘And, do you know you have fans calling themselves the Armitage Army?’ these days.

The ‘Armitage Army’, a lighthearted name given by a complaining husband, has grown from a few fans of Richard’s performance as John Thornton in the BBC’s 2004 production of the Elizabeth Gaskell novel, North & South. to an army of (mainly) women from across the world. One enterprising member of the BBC forum, finding the restrictions placed on what they could and couldn't talk about difficult, decided to start her own board using the free facility provided by Yahoo. Members flocked to this haven where they could happily drool over Richard without fear of being modded by Aunty Beeb. As great as the Yahoo board was, it was restricted to posting text only so the decision was taken to move the now renamed Armitage Army forum to a Proboards board in September 2006. Moving to a Proboards forum allowed us to fill our posts with lovely pics of Richard and show off our talented members artwork! In 2007 it was renamed the Armitage Army@Richard Armitage Central (AA@RAC for short). The AA@RAC is a friendly, vibrant and vital forum and currently has, from the north to the south of the globe, over 1600 enthusiastic, talented, fiercely loyal, and only mildly lunatic, members - and this is steadily growing - who have created well over 17,393 topics and 1,000,000 posts.

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In our

FORUM FOCUS pages

you will find a small window to the forum. As well as samples of work from our poets, you'll find the winning entries from graphics and photographic challenges, which are updated regularly.

There's also the Incredible World of Little Guy featuring the Adventures of Little Guy by Kiteflier, and by Ruthy, and the miniature Henchman's Pub, by Pepper.

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Richard Armitage has said he doesn’t want an official website, so along with all other sites dedicated to him, this is very proudly, a very unofficial, Richard Armitage fansite.