Stars of Tomorrow 2025: Kieron Moore (actor)

”It’s like, this year I’ve got a Mancunian hacker with trust issues who falls in love with a deaf girl and is robbing a bank. I have a queer cam-boy who is so messed up and he’s just a liar. And then I have a homophobic ex-con from New York. Maybe it’ll take years, but I feel like I’m building my way.”

So says Kieron Moore, 28, who is hitting his stride with the above-mentioned trio of 2025 projects: with Rose Ayling-Ellis in ITVX series Code Of Silence; opposite Reed Birney in Elliot Tuttle’s provocative two-hander Blue Film, an Edinburgh International Film Festival premiere executive produced by Mark Duplass; and Netflix mini­series Boots, adapted from Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink Marine, streaming in October.

Moore came to acting only after living out the dream of someone else: his father, who initiated him into boxing from the age of five. The Mancunian juggled competitive boxing, modelling and work at a law firm until he plucked up the courage to follow his own dream, auditioning at Manchester School of Acting.

“I did my scene,” he recalls. “And it just transcended me. I remember sitting in the corner afterwards, shaking, and thinking, ‘I want to do this forever.’”

The latest crop of roles all offer a duality he embraces. “I have this fascination with good people doing bad things, bad people trying to be good,” says Moore, who first appeared on screen in 2019, and whose dream list of collaborators includes Chloé Zhao (“I love The Rider”), Robert Eggers and Bong Joon Ho.

“I’d like to keep playing characters that get further away from myself,” he adds. “I want to explore lives that don’t belong to me — and, hopefully, keep making people believe I have that life.”

Contact: Honor Colt, Jo McLintock, A&J Artists

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