When the Outlander credits rolled and viewers saw the menacing name Richard Brown, few realized that he was being played by none other than Chris Larkin, the son of the legendary Dame Maggie Smith. Yet Larkin intentionally obscured that connection by adopting a different surname—and his journey into a complex villain in one of television’s most passionate historical dramas is as fascinating as the character he portrays.
Born Christopher Larkin Stephens in 1967, Chris is Maggie Smith’s elder son (his younger brother is Toby Stephens). Despite growing up in an acting household, he made a deliberate decision early in his career to drop the “Stephens” surname.
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