Nick Hendrix
High-stakes events live or die on the person at the front of the room. Get the host wrong and the keynote loses the audience before it begins; get them right and the agenda lands cleanly, the panel finds its rhythm, and the room stays with you to the close. The same craft, composure on camera, clear delivery under pressure, recovery when something goes off-script, is what makes the difference between a polished evening and a flat one.
Nick Hendrix is a working television and stage actor who hosts corporate events and speaks on confidence and performance under pressure, drawing on a career as DS Jamie Winter in ITV’s Midsomer Murders and on stages at the National, The Old Vic and the West End.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Nick Hendrix
- A recognisable face from one of ITV’s longest-running primetime dramas, which gives award ceremonies, gala dinners and brand events an immediate sense of occasion.
- Live theatre training at RADA and on West End stages, which translates directly into clean autocue delivery, audience reading and recovery when an agenda slips.
- Comfort across formats: scripted keynote interview, awards script, panel moderation and after-dinner. The same person can run the evening end to end without a second host.
- A second professional life as an automotive journalist for the Financial Times’ How To Spend It, Square Mile and SPEARS, with brand work for Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, McLaren and Mercedes. Useful for luxury, automotive and lifestyle audiences.
- A substantive talk on confidence, rejection and sustaining performance through career volatility, available when the brief calls for content beyond hosting.
Biography highlights
- RADA-trained actor, BA in acting, 2010, following a BA in drama from the University of Exeter.
- Plays DS Jamie Winter in ITV’s Midsomer Murders, his ongoing role since 2016.
- Stage credits include male lead Prince Digby in The Light Princess at the Royal National Theatre, plus work at The Old Vic and West End productions including What The Butler Saw at the Vaudeville.
- Film credits include Captain America: The First Avenger, Suffragette, Legend and Red Tails.
- Television credits include The Crown, Black Mirror, Call the Midwife, Foyle’s War, Silk and Marcella.
- Co-founder of DRIVEN, an automotive journalism company, with bylines in the Financial Times’ How To Spend It, Square Mile and SPEARS, and commercial work with Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, McLaren and Mercedes.
Biography
A working actor’s career is built on repeated rejection. For every part won there are dozens lost, and the craft of staying available, composed and credible across that volatility is closer to a corporate audience’s daily reality than it first appears. Hendrix has spent thirteen years inside that discipline, on a primetime ITV set, on West End stages, and in front of live audiences who give no second chances.
Trained at RADA after a drama degree at Exeter, he has played DS Jamie Winter in ITV’s Midsomer Murders since 2016, alongside stage work at the National, The Old Vic and the West End. Screen credits include Captain America: The First Avenger, Suffragette, Legend, The Crown and Black Mirror. The body of work is broad enough to give an event audience an immediate point of recognition.
A second career runs in parallel. Hendrix co-founded DRIVEN, an automotive journalism venture, and writes for the Financial Times’ How To Spend It, Square Mile and SPEARS. That work has produced commercial relationships with Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, McLaren and Mercedes, which gives him a working fluency with luxury, automotive and lifestyle brand audiences that few hosts can match.
On stage at an event he leans on the obvious tools of his trade: a trained voice, accurate scripted delivery, a feel for pace and a willingness to improvise when an agenda moves. When the brief is content rather than hosting, his subject is the practical economy of confidence and resilience inside a career that has no fixed salary or guaranteed next job.
Key speaking topics
- Awards hosting and event mastering of ceremonies
- Panel moderation and on-stage interviewing
- Confidence and performance under pressure
- Mental health and wellbeing in volatile careers
- Resilience through repeated rejection
- Luxury automotive and lifestyle brand engagement
Ideal for
- Awards ceremonies, gala dinners and brand events that need a recognisable on-camera host
- Marketing, communications and brand teams in luxury, automotive and lifestyle sectors
- Conference programmes that need a polished panel moderator across the day
- Employee experience and wellbeing programmes looking for a recognisable, non-clinical voice on confidence and pressure
Audience outcomes
- A clearly run evening or conference day, with an autocue-fluent host who keeps time and recovers cleanly when things move
- A concrete account of how performers manage live-performance pressure, told without self-help framing
- A working perspective on confidence as a trained habit, not a personality trait
- A relevant cultural reference point for luxury, automotive and lifestyle brand audiences