Cast Biographies
BILL NIGHY / CLIFF
Bill Nighy is an award-winning actor of the stage and screen. Nighy received a BAFTA Award, a London Film Critics Circle Award, and an Evening Standard British Film Award for his performance as an aging rock star in Richard Curtis’s 2003 ensemble comedy hit Love Actually. He also won a Los Angeles Film Critics Award for his collective work in that film, as well as AKA, I Capture the Castle and Lawless Heart.
His long list of film credits also includes Wild Target, with Rupert Grint and Emily Blunt; Pirate Radio, which reunited him with Richard Curtis; Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie, with Tom Cruise; Richard Eyre’s Notes on a Scandal, for which he earned a London Film Critics Circle Award nomination; Underworld and Underworld: Evolution; Fernando Meirelles’ The Constant Gardener, garnering a British Independent Film Award (BIFA) nomination; Lawless Heart, which brought him a BIFA nomination; and Still Crazy, for which he won an Evening Standard British Film Award. He is also unrecognisable as the tentacled pirate captain Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, and lent his voice to several animated features, including Flushed Away. Further roles include the role of Minister Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part One and the role of Slartibartfast in The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Born in England, Nighy began his career on the British stage and has since earned acclaim for his work in numerous plays, including David Hare’s Pravda, Skylight and A Map of the World. He has also performed in plays by other leading dramatists, including Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Brian Friel, Anton Chekhov and Peter Gill. He received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance in Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange. On Broadway, he starred in the 2006 premiere of David Hare’s The Vertical Hour, directed by Sam Mendes.
Also well known for his work on the small screen, Nighy recently earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance in the BBC television movie Page Eight, directed by David Hare and produced by Harry Potter producer David Heyman. Nighy has worked several times with director David Yates, including the acclaimed BBC project State of Play, for which he won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. Yates also directed him in the BBC telefilm The Young Visitors, and HBO’s The Girl in the Cafe, which brought him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries. He later won a Golden Globe in the same category for his performance in the 2005 telefilm Gideon’s Daughter. His television work also includes dozens of series guest roles and long form projects, including the one for which he first gained attention, 1991’s The Men’s Room.
In March 2012 Nighy starred to much critical acclaim in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which smashed the UK box office. Boasting a stellar British cast including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Celia Imrie and Slumdog Millionaire actor Dev Patel, the film was released in the UK in Autumn 2011 and in the USA in May 2012 and made a staggering $46.4 million at the US box office alone. Later in 2012, Nighy was seen in Wrath of the Titans and Total Recall alongside Colin Farrell.
Early in 2013, Bill starred in Jack the Giant Slayer (1st March US and 22nd March UK); another box office hit making $65.2M at the US Box Office. Following this, Bill teamed up with Richard Curtis again for his much anticipated time travelling romantic comedy About Time, also starring Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams. About Time was released in the UK on 6th September and in the US on 8th November 2013.
The start of 2014 was spent in India, where the cast of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel joined forces once again on the set of the film’s hotly awaited sequel, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2. Additionally, January 2014 saw Nighy appear in I, Frankenstein, written and directed by Stuart Beattie and also starring Aaron Eckhart and Yvonne Strahovski. I, Frankenstein is based on Darkstorm Studios graphic novel about the monster in present day who finds himself in the middle of a war between immortal clans.
Nighy recently reunited with David Hare for the second and third installments of The Worriker Trilogy, featuring Nighy as Johnny Worricker, an MI5 agent. Turks & Caicos, and Salting the Battlefield follow on from Page Eight and the cast includes Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher Walken and Ralph Fiennes, among others.
IMELDA STAUNTON / HEFINA
Imelda Staunton is a well-known actor of stage and screen. She has most recently been seen on stage in Good People, David Lindsay-Abaire’s play about life’s lottery. She can currently be seen on screen in Maleficent alongside Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning.
She is perhaps best known for her performance in the Harry Potter film series, in which she plays Professor Umbridge and for Vera Drake, directed by Mike Leigh for which she was critically acclaimed, earning a Best Actress Oscar nomination and a number of awards including the BAFTA and Venice Film Festival Awards for Best Actress in a leading role.
Staunton's first big-screen role came in a 1986 film Comrades. She then appeared in the 1992 film Peter’s Friends. Other film roles include: Much Ado About Nothing, Deadly Advice, Sense and Sensibility, Twelfth Night, Chicken Run, Bright Young Things, Nanny McPhee, The Awakening, Taking Woodstock and Another Year.
Staunton shared a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by a Cast in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love.
Staunton trained at RADA and after graduating spent six years in repertory, including a period at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter where she played the title role in Shaw’s Saint Joan. In 1982, she started work at the National Theatre. She is also known for her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz for the RSC. She has had a long and distinguished career in the theatre, performing in such diverse plays as A Man for all Seasons, Mack & Mabel, Side by Side, and Elektra.
Staunton received an Olivier Award for: A Chorus of Disapproval and The Corn is Green and also for the 1991 musical, Into the Woods. She was nominated for her performance as Miss Adelaide in the 1996 revival of Guys and Dolls at the National Theatre. More recently, she appeared in the premiere of Frank McGuinness’s There Came a Gypsy Riding at the Almeida in 2007 and opened in 2009 in English Touring Theatre's production of Entertaining Mr Sloane.
In October 2011 Staunton took the role of Mrs. Lovett in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring opposite Michael Ball at the Chichester Festival. The show transferred to the Adelphi Theatre in London from March to September 2012. Staunton won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for this production. In October 2014 she will play Rose in a revival of Gypsy at the Chichester Festival.
Her television appearances include: If you See God, Tell Him, The Singing Detective and Is it Legal? She guest starred as Mrs. Mead in Little Britain and played Miss Pole, in Cranford the five-part BBC series based on Mrs Gaskell's novels. In 2011 she played Grace Andrews in the second series of Psychoville. She can be seen later this year in the leading role of Enid in Victoria Wood’s new film, That Day We Sang.
DOMINIC WEST / JONATHAN
Dominic West has successfully combined a career in both the UK and the U.S., with leading roles in international film, American television and on the London stage. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin and then from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, West won the Ian Charleson award for Best Newcomer for his performance in Sir Peter Hall’s production of The Seagull.
A very successful film career soon followed with West winning leading roles in studio movies including 28 Days opposite Sandra Bullock; Mona Lisa’s Smile, with Julia Roberts; and The Forgotten, with Julianne Moore. He also starred as Theron in Warner Bros.’ 300. Further credits include Chicago, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, True Blue, Hannibal Rising, Rock Star, The Phantom Menace, Surviving Picasso and Richard III.
In 2000, he won the role of McNulty in HBO’s The Wire, one of the most critically acclaimed television programs ever made in the U.S. The show ran for five seasons, with West directing an episode in the final season.
His theatre credits include Peter Gill’s production of Harley Granville Barker’s The Voysey Inheritance at the Royal National Theatre; David Lan’s West End production of As You Like It, in which he starred opposite Helen McCrory; and Trevor Nunn’s West End production of Tom Stoppard’s most recent play, Rock N’ Roll, which opened to huge plaudits at The Royal Court Theatre in summer 2006.
In 2008 he played Oliver Cromwell in Channel 4’s BAFTA-nominated television series The Devil’s Whore. He then went on to do Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s Life Is a Dream at the Donmar Warehouse in London, followed by Centurion directed by Neil Marshall and also starring Micahel Fassbender
Dominic starred in the 2011 film The Awakening, the box office hit Johnny English Reborn and ITV’s critically acclaimed mini-series Appropriate Adult for which he won a TV BAFTA in May of this year as well as The Hour by Abi Morgan for which Dominic was nominated for a Golden Globe. On the stage in 2011 West captivated audiences as the title role in Butley at the Duchess Theatre as well as sharing the stage with his Wire co-star Clarke Petes in Othello at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
2012 saw Dominic reprise his role as Hector Madden in the second season of The Hour and he starred in the new Jez Butterworth play at The Royal Court, The River which opened in October 2012.
Dominic began 2013 by returning to Sheffield to appear in My Fair Lady at The Crucible. He then went on to film as Richard Burton in a BBC4 drama, starring opposite Helena Bonham Carter as Elizabeth Taylor. In the autumn he began filming the television series The Affair for Showtime. He finished the year by completing a trek across the South Pole for the charity Walking With the Wounded, competing against teams led by Prince Harry and Alexander Skarsgard.
PADDY CONSIDINE / DAI
As a teenager, Paddy studied a drama course at Burton College where he met with now friend and director Shane Meadows who together formed a band called ‘She talks to angels’ (Paddy was their drummer). Neither finished the course, however, but Paddy went on to study photography at Brighton University where he earned a first class honors degree.
After returning from university Paddy worked on a short film with old friend Shane Meadows, called Three Tears For Jimmy Prophet, about a doomed boxer who's life took a turn for the worse. Following this, Meadows cast Paddy in his first role in a feature film as the disturbed character Morell in A Room for Romeo Brass. Despite the film's huge success at the Edinburgh Film Festival, rumour has it that Paddy found himself at the local Job Center the Monday following its premiere. However, Paddy's outstanding performance had not gone unnoticed, and he soon found himself cast in Pawel Pawlikowski's Last Resort the following year, playing the love struck misfit Alfie, to great acclaim.
Numerous film roles have followed including Jim Sheridan's In America, Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People, Ron Howard's Cinderella Man, Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz, Paul Greengrass's The Bourne Ultimatum, James Marsh's Red Riding 1980 and My Summer Of Love, again directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Paddy's collaboration with Shane Meadows have continued with the two co-writing and Paddy starring in the much-lauded Dead Man's Shoes and Le Donk.
Paddy's directorial debut, the short film Dog Altogether, won the Best Short Film BAFTA in 2008. His feature length debut as writer/director, Tyrannosaur, cemented his standing as an important new voice in cinema with Paddy winning the Outstanding Debut Award at the Baftas, Best Film at the British Independent Film Awards and the World Cinema Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.
Paddy has most recently been seen on screen in Edgar Wright's The World's End alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. He has recently completed filming Child 44, an adaptation of the Stalin-era thriller written by Tom Rob Smith and directed by Daniel Espinosa and Macbeth directed by Justin Kurzel, in which he plays Banquo alongside Michael Fassbender as Macbeth and Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth.
GEORGE MACKAY / JOE
In 2014, George MacKay was nominated as one of the EE BAFTA Rising Stars, the prestigious award that celebrates five actors each year and their impressive body of work. George was also nominated for ‘Young British Performer of the Year’ at the Critics’ Circle Awards, ‘Best Male Newcomer’ at the Jameson Empire Awards and selected as one of the ten best European actors at the Berlinale Shooting Stars positioning him as one of the UKs most exciting young actors.
2013 was a stellar year for MacKay, starring in four critically acclaimed feature films that showcased his versatility as an actor. George won the ‘Best Film Actor’ award at the Scottish BAFTA Awards for his highly praised portrayal of Aaron in For Those in Peril. The film follows the tragic story of a young misfit (played by George) living in a remote Scottish fishing community and the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident. The film received huge critical acclaim when it premiered at The Cannes Film Festival and director Paul Wright was awarded ‘Best Debut Director’ at the British Independent Film Awards.
George also starred as lead character ‘Davy’ in Dexter Fletcher’s Sunshine on Leith, a film based on the sensational stage hit of the same name and featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers. The film follows the stories of Davy and Ally (Kevin Guthrie) who have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan.
In Kevin MacDonald’s How I live Now, an adaptation Meg Rosoff award-winning novel, George played ‘Eddie’ alongside Saoirse Ronan. The film tells the story of an American girl caught in England when third world war breaks out. And in Simon Spracking’s Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson, a film about a group of rugby fanatics who’s Rugby Club is under threat from land developers, George plays lead character ‘Jake Whittam’.
George will also be seen in Duane Hopkins new film Bypass, where he stars as Tim, a young man of the English economic underclass. Tim is a good kid who cares for those close to him and is aware of his responsibilities towards them. When his older brother is released from prison, Tim experiences profound anguish at the news that he'll soon be responsible for a new life and a life he fears will be born into the same troubled circumstances as his own. Tim's world takes on a new dimension of menace and his rapidly narrowing options force him towards actions with which he is deeply uncomfortable.
George has recently made his theatre debut in early 2014 in Ian McEwan’s The Cement Garden, a play that explores coming of age, burgeoning sexuality and the distortions of a 14 year-old mind. The play was part of the second incarnation of The Vault Festival that took place in the tunnels beneath London Waterloo in January and February 2014.
George's film career began at the very young age of 10 years old, playing the role of Cury in P J Hogan’s Peter Pan. George was nominated for a British Independent Film Award as 'Most Promising British Newcomer' and for 'Young British Performer of The Year' at the Critics Circle Awards for his role in Scott Hicks' The Boys Are Back alongside Clive Owen.
Some of George’s previous film credits include lead role of Tommo Peaceful in the critically acclaimed film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel Private Peaceful. Starring alongside Jack O’ Connell the film, set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, sees two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice. George also starred as Jake Zeppi alongside Minnie Driver in the BBC film Hunky Dory. Set in the summer of 1976, a drama teacher fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end-of-term version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
George's most recent television credits include playing the role of Private William Heath. As a wheelchair-bound casualty of war William Heath in the Paralympic inspired BBC drama Best of Men directed by Tim Whitby. Other credits include roles in The Old Curiosity Shop directed by Brian Percival alongside Derek Jacobi,the BBC's two-time nominated Tsunami: The Aftermath alongside Toni Collette and Gina McKee and playing the lead in Johnny and The Bomb a BBC drama adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel of the same name, alongside Zoe Wanamaker.
JOSEPH GILGUN / MIKE
Joe Gilgun, studied acting at the Laine Johnson Theatre School and
Oldham Theatre Workshop. His television work includes the highly acclaimed Channel 4 series Shameless, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Misfits and Ripper Street. This Is England, directed by Shane Meadows was his first feature film role and he reprised the character of the skinhead Woody in the subsequent television series: This is England ’86 and This is England ’88. He also appeared in the thriller Harry Brown and the sci-fi film Lockout.
ANDREW SCOTT / GETHIN
Andrew has five films slated for release in 2014/15. He has recently completed filming Frankenstein with James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe for 20th Century Fox. Other releases in 2014 for Andrew are Ken Loach’s much -anticipated final film Jimmy’s Hall, Venice film festival hit, Locke with Tom Hardy, and Irish comedy, The Stag which was a huge hit at its recent premiere at the Toronto film festival and will be on nationwide release in March.
In April 2014 he returned to the theatre to star in Birdland by Olivier-wining playwright Simon Stephens at the Royal Court.
Andrew received the 2012 BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Moriarty in international hit Sherlock. He won the 2013 IFTA for the same role.
He has received two Olivier awards for his work in the theatre, the IFTA for Best Actor in a Film, and the BBC Audio Award for his work in radio drama for two years in succession.
Andrew has appeared in a number of high profile dramas in recent years including spy film Legacy for the BBC, directed by Pete Travis, Dates with Sheridan Smith, directed by Charles Sturridge, the critically acclaimed drama The Town, written by Mike Bartlett . The Scapegoat, an adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier novel, Blackout, alongside Christopher Eccleston, The Hour with Ben Whishaw and Dominic West, and the multi award-winning mega –hit Sherlock which is sold in over 200 territories and earns him legions of fans worldwide.
His many theatre credits include, most recently, Sea Wall a one -man play written especially for him by Simon Stephens, the title role in Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean at the National Theatre, and Noel Cowards Design For Living at the Old Vic, for which he was nominated for the Times Breakthrough award at the South Bank Show Awards.
Other roles include, Laevsky in a film adaptation of Anton Chekov’s The Duel and Paul McCartney in the BBC film, Lennon Naked. He also starred with Ben Whishaw in a sell-out run of Cock at the Royal Court Theatre, which won them an Olivier award.
Other work includes the multi award-winning John Adams opposite Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti for HBO and The Vertical Hour, his critically acclaimed Broadway debut opposite Julianne Moore, written by David Hare and directed by Sam Mendes, for which he was nominated for a Drama League Award.
Andrew made his film debut aged seventeen, as the young lead in acclaimed Irish film Korea. Dropping out of his Drama degree at Trinity College to join Dublin’s famous Abbey Theatre, he garnered rave reviews for a season of lead roles.
After filming a small part in Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, he worked with legendary film and theatre director Karel Reisz on the classic American play Long Day’s Journey Into Night for which he won Actor Of The Year at the Independent Spirit of Life Awards as well as an Irish Times Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was just twenty-one years old. He then filmed Nora with Ewan McGregor and Henry James’s The American, alongside Diana Rigg and Matthew Modine, before making his London Theatre debut in Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol with Brian Cox at the Royal Court Theatre. He was then cast in major roles in the BAFTA winning drama Longitude opposite Michael Gambon and multi-award winning series Band Of Brothers for HBO.
For his role in Buena Vista’s Dead Bodies, Andrew won Best Actor at the Irish Film Awards. He then went on to receive the prestigious Shooting Star Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
After starring in My Life in Film for the BBC, he received his first Olivier award for his role in A Girl in a Car with a Man at The Royal Court and the Theatre Goers Choice Award for his heart-breaking performance in the National Theatre’s Aristocrats.
He then created the roles of the twin brothers in the original Royal Court production of Christopher Shinn’s Dying City, at The Royal Court, which was eventually nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
BEN SCHNETZER / MARK
As a talented actor dedicated to his craft, Ben Schnetzer is paving his career, exploring a range of characters in various roles across film, theater and television.
Currently, Ben is in production on Duncan Jones’ Warcraft, an epic fantasy adventure based on the popular video game series. Universal Pictures is slated to release the film on March 11, 2016. Following that, he will begin lensing on James Merendino film SLC Punk 2: Punk’s Dead, a sequel to the 1998 cult classic SLC Punk!. Original cast members Michael Goorjian, Adam Pascal and James Duval are reprising their roles. Ben will portray “Ross,” the son of Heroin Bob (Michael Goorjian), and will be joined by cast newcomers Machine Gun Kelly, Hannah Marks and Sarah Clarke.
Ben will next be seen in The Riot Club, an adaptation of Laura Wade’s West End play Posh. Directed by Lone Scherfig and with Wade adapting it for the screen, the film centers on the controversial, exclusive world of the Riot Club, a drinking society made up of Oxford University’s privileged elite. Ben co-stars alongside an ensemble cast that includes Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Freddie Fox, Sam Reid, Matthew Beard, Olly Alexander, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Natalie Dormer and Holliday Granger. Universal International is releasing the film in the UK on September 19, 2014 in the UK.
Ben was most recently seen in Brian Percival’s The Book Thief, based on the novel of the same name by Markus Zusak. The film centered on the courageous story of Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse), a young foster girl living outside of a Munich neighborhood at the start of World War II Germany. As Liesel seeks comfort in the pages of a stolen book, she soon discovers that reading is her only escape in life. When her adoptive parents decide to shelter a Jewish refugee named Max (Schnetzer), Liesel brings peace to his horrific plight, passing down one stolen back after another. Ben co-starred opposite Emily Watson, Geoffrey Rush and Sophie Nélisse.
Ben first made his film debut in the indie drama Ben's Plan, where he played the lead role of “Ben Stephens,” a 14-year-old boy living in New York whose mother disappeared three weeks earlier while shopping for Christmas gifts. From there, he went on to appear as a series-regular on ABC’s Happy Town, a mystery thriller around the decade-long kidnappings that occurred in a small town in Minnesota.
Ben studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he appeared in numerous productions including Oedipus, As You Like It, Merrily We Roll Along and Widower’s Houses, among many other stage credits. He first began acting at age eleven when he played the Artful Dodger in a production of Oliver. Ben currently resides in New York, NY.
FAYE MARSAY / STEPH
Faye was most recently seen in Channel 4’s multi award-winning comedy drama series, Fresh Meat. Faye joined the cast as brand new housemate and genuine fresher, Candice, who is home schooled and as yet unsullied by student-dom. Faye stars alongside Jack Whitehall, Zawe Ashton and Joe Thomas.
Faye’s career started in theatre and having recently graduated from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (July 2012), Faye won the coveted Spotlight Prize in 2012.
Every year, the Conference of Drama Schools, which comprises Britain’s leading drama schools, nominates their best actor from their graduating year for entry into the Spotlight Prize. Faye was nominated by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and won the prize after performing Motherland by Steve Gilroy at the Spotlight Showcase. Past winners include Dame Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent and Robert Lindsay and Faye won the prize in 2012 after impressing a judging panel including Amanda Redman and Rosamund Pike.
Faye has been in many theatre productions including The Good Soul of Szechuan, Disco Pigs and Hard Times whilst she studied at BOVTS, and Peter Pan, Hansel + Gretel and 4.48 Psychosis on The Northern Stage.
In 2013, Faye starred in BBC1 drama series The White Queen based on Philippa Gregory’s bestselling historical novel series The Cousins’ War. Set during the War of the Roses in 1464, The White Queen tells the story of 3 women who proved influential during the battle for the English crown between the royal houses of York and Lancaster; Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville. Faye played a leading role, as Anne Neville, alongside cast members Rebecca Ferguson and Amanda Hale.
Faye has recently appeared in the second series of the code-breaking thriller The Bletchley Circle. Based on the lives of four extraordinary and brilliant women who worked at top-secret HQ Bletchley Park during World War II, the series launched on ITV with an average audience of 5.6m and a 23% share of the available audience making it the best performing new drama series from a share perspective throughout 2012. The first series also recently screened in the US to rave reviews.
For her latest project, Faye has just begun shooting Glue, a brand new original series created and written by BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne (This is England, Skins, The Fades) for E4. Faye will be joined by some of Britain’s brightest young talent for this series.
FREDDIE FOX / JEFF
Freddie graduated from The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2010 and was most recently seen opposite Rupert Everett playing the coveted role of ‘Lord Alfred Douglas’ (Bosie) in the West End move of The Judas Kiss at the Duke of York Theatre. Previously Freddie had played the same role at the Hampstead Theatre and touring production of The Judas Kiss.
Freddie is currently filming the Channel 4 drama series Cucumber, and E4 drama series Banana, alongside James Murray, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Vincent Franklin. Cucumber will explore the passions and pitfalls of 21st century gay life for characters ‘Henry’ and ‘Lance’, while Banana will follow the individual lives of characters orbiting around ‘Henry’s’ world. He has recently finished filming Paul McGuigan’s Frankenstein, in which he stars as Finnegan alongside James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe. The film is set for release in October 2015
Freddie will next be seen in Lone Scherfig’s new film The Riot Club, based on the London stage play Posh alongside Ben Schnetzer, Max Irons, Douglas Booth and Jessica Brown Findlay. The film follows students at Oxford University as they join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.
2012 saw Freddie in the title role in the BBC Dickens’ adaptation The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This BBC Two drama also starring Tamzin Merchant and Rory Kinnear, explored Charles Dickens’ unfinished work on Edwin Drood. In 2010 Freddie starred as ‘Ratallack’ in BBC Two miniseries The Shadow Line. This critically acclaimed thriller interwove the stories of a diverse group of individuals following the death of a drug dealer, and also featured Christopher Eccleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Freddie made his television debut in 2011 in TV movie Marple: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans - arguably Freddie’s biggest break out role was that of ‘Marilyn’ in BBC Boy George biopic Worried About the Boy. This controversial TV movie in which Freddie starred opposite Douglas Booth (Boy George), followed the lives of the two friends as they lived together in 1980’s London. Freddie also played the young ‘Peter Scabius’ in Channel 4 series Any Human Heart, and in Susanna White’s TV series for HBO, Parade’s End.
Freddie’s film credits include: ‘King Louis’ in The Three Musketeers directed by Paul WS Anderson, and St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, as the head boy opposite Colin Firth, David Tennant and Talulah Riley.
Freddie is also known for his extensive theatre credits which include Hay Fever at the Noel Coward theatre, Cause Celebre directed by Thea Sharrock, A Flea in Her Ear directed by Richard Eyre at the Old Vic, and The Last 5 Years at The Barbican.
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