Stars of Tomorrow 2025: Finn Bennett (actor)

In the last couple of years, Irish British actor Finn Bennett has played a cop in HBO’s True Detective: Night Country, a CIA agent in Netflix’s Black Doves, and a Navy SEAL in Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s harrowing Iraq War re-enactment Warfare. Yet he resists the suggestion he carries himself with authority.

“Absolutely not,” he laughs. “On True Detective, [director] Issa Lopez put tape on my back. Every time I slouched, it would [mimes pinching skin].”

Since attending the London Islington branch of Stagecoach at the age of 11, Bennett has built up a choice roster of work, including BBC adaptation Cider With Rosie, Jack Thorne-scripted Channel 4 miniseries Kiri and Sky Atlantic show Domina.

He has learned on the job, saying that acting opposite household names such as Jodie Foster, Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw has been gratifying and educational. “There’s this mystique around A-list stars but they’ve been brilliant, kind, encouraging people,” he says. “I’ve learned from how they carry themselves on set.”

At Cannes this year, Bennett was one of two Trophée Chopard recipients recognising young actors, and this summer he shot Kane Parsons’ A24 horror film The Backrooms with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. But Bennett will first be seen in two projects with fellow 2025 Stars of Tomorrow Izuka Hoyle and Peter Claffey: respectively Sky series Prisoner and as Prince Aerion ‘Brightflame’ Targaryen in HBO’s Game Of Thrones spinoff A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms.

“Aerion is vain and cruel,” he smiles. “I wanted to give him an angsty, teenager feel so I listened to a lot of Rage Against The Machine.”

Contact: Bella Wingfield, Sequel Management bella@sequelmanagement.co.uk

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