Alex Lawther

Acting · Born 1995-05-04 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK

Biography

Alexander Jonathan Lawthe (born May 4, 1995) is an English actor. He began acting in theatre at 16, when he played the lead role in David Hare’s South Downs at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester. He is best known for portraying the young Alan Turing in the film "The Imitation Game"(2014), which won him the London Film Critics' Circle Award for 'Young British Performer of the Year'. This was followed with a starring role in 2015 film "Departure", opposite Juliet Stevenson. He also played the lead role of James in the Channel 4 series The End of the F***ing World (2017–2019).

Filmography

• The Imitation Game as Young Alan Turing
• Goodbye Christopher Robin as Christopher Robin Milne (Teen)
• The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun as Morisot
• The Last Duel as King Charles VI
• The Velveteen Rabbit as Velveteen Rabbit (voice)
• The Lost Patient as Bastien
• Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Karis Nemik (archive footage) (uncredited)
• X+Y as Isaac Cooper
• Departure as Elliot
• Ghost Stories as Simon Rifkind

TV

• Black Mirror as Kenny
• The End of the F***ing World as James
• Andor as Karis Nemik (voice)
• The Owl House as Philip Wittebane (voice)
• The Cleaner as Shaman
• Alien: Earth as Joe DiMaggio Hermit
• Summer Camp Island as Mildred's Friend / Additional Voices (voice)
• Holby City as Fred Bamber
• Howards End as Tibby Schlegel
• Summer Camp Island as Mildred's Friend (voice)