Stars Of Tomorrow: Actors
John Boyega
In the few short months since Attack The Block screened at SXSW, things have changed for Peckham-born John Boyega.
Elliot Knight
There was a UK-wide casting process for the title role in Sinbad, Sky 1 TV’s 2012 tentpole drama that seemed to involve every agent in the country. Finally, after a few false starts, came the news: unknown Birmingham-born actor Elliot Knight had landed the role, and will spend the next eight months in Malta filming the 13-episode series.
Robert Emms
A year ago, LAMDA-trained Robert Emms did not see himself in film. “I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time,” he says.
Daniel Sharman
After finishing Tarsem Singh’s Immortals earlier this year — he plays Ares, trouble-making son of Zeus — Daniel Sharman took some time off.
Alexandra Roach
A regular on Welsh TV soap Pobol Y Cwm from the age of 11 to 18, Alexandra Roach graduated from RADA last year after four years there (she had to repeat a year due to a back injury) and is still training with acting coach Dee Cannon.
Georgia King
Audiences will soon see Georgia King playing opposite Michelle Ryan and Harry Treadaway in Matthias Hoene’s London-set CockneysVs Zombies.
Sebastian Armesto
Having just finished Rocket To The Moon at London’s National Theatre, Sebastian Armesto is becoming increasingly visible.
Joe Cole
The 22-year-old actor-writer Joe Cole came up through the National Youth Theatre (NYT) — “I did it for a bit of fun,” says the London native. “School hadn’t worked out for me; I didn’t have great expectations.”
Toby Regbo
Still only 19, Londoner Toby Regbo first made an indelible impression as the young Nemo in Jaco Van Dormael’s Mr Nobody.
Douglas Booth
London-born Douglas Booth landed an agent when he was 15, when actors are still subject to child labour laws.
Antonia Campbell-Hughes
In Rebecca Daly’s The Other Side Of Sleep, a Directors’ Fortnight title at Cannes, Antonia Campbell-Hughes gives an intense, internalised performance as a young girl who sleepwalks her way into a murder in a small Irish town.
Phoebe Fox
“I have to admit to being smitten by… Phoebe Fox,” said The Daily Telegraph’s Charles Spencer of RADA’s sought-after 2010 graduate.
Richard Madden
Richard Madden is on his way. Now appearing in Channel 4’s Sirens, a six-part comedy-drama about three paramedics, he is also part of HBO’s Game Of Thrones ensemble and has signed on for the second series from July.
MyAnna Buring
Sweden-born and UK-raised, MyAnna Buring (pronounced ‘Me-Anna’) hit the ground running on graduation from LAMDA with a prominent role in Neil Marshall’s 2005 horror film The Descent.
Joshua Bowman
Joshua Bowman is about to become well-known in the US, and he would like to repeat that in the UK.
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