
Kristian Bartholomew Hitchen is an English actor, best known for his role in the Ken Loach directed feature Sorry We Missed You for which he received a nomination for best actor at the British Independent Film Awards.
Born in Salford on 28 April 1974, Hitchen studied dancing as a child and tried to break into acting after leaving school but, after meeting his wife, he left the industry and started a plumbing business.
He returned to acting after visiting a retreat just before his 40th birthday and had small roles in 4 O'Clock Club and Coronation Street before landing the part of Ricky in Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You. He has since appeared in Anne Boleyn as the Duke of Norfolk, The Long Shadow, Trigger Point and the film Speak No Evil alongside James McAvoy.

Speak No Evil
2024 · as Mike

Sorry We Missed You
2019 · as Ricky

The War Below
2021 · as Harold Stockford

Lilias Adie
2021 · as Bailee

Unmoored
2024 · as Mark

Cul-de-sac
2024 · as Terry

Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures
2022 · as Richard

Trucker's Atlas
2019 · as Rob

Contact Hours
2024 · as The Caretaker

Pink Bag
2021

Frostbite

Hollow
2021 · as Niall Lavin

Gone Fishing
2024 · as Pete