Alex Lawther

At 29 years old, Alex Lawther has this physical status:

Alexander Jonathan Lawther (born 4 May 1995) is an English actor best known for his role as James in the Channel 4 series "The End of the F***ing World" and for his role as Kenny in the Netflix series "Shut Up and Dance".

He is also known for playing young Alan Turing in the film The Imitation Game (2014), where he received the Young British Artist of the Year award.

Early life

Lawther was born in Winchester, Hampshire, and grew in Petersfield, Hampshire. He is of English and Irish descent. Lawther's son (Yvonne Lawther; Michael Terrence) has described himself as having arisen from a "white middle-class bubble." He said he wanted to be an actor after being compelled to make up his own games to entertain himself as a child. Both of his siblings live and work in the United States, with Cameron Lawther, his older brother, and his older sister Ellie Lawther, both working in public policy.

Lawther was educated at Churcher's College, a selective private school in the British public school tradition. Lawther was heavily involved in the drama series, where he appeared in The Wind in the Willows as Ratty. A fourteen-year-old Lawther was allowed to write and direct his own full-length play based on a Sara Bareilles song Rejected Fairytales as part of his drama club membership, where he was lauded in local newspapers as a "theatric whiz kid."

In 2010, he was accepted into the National Youth Theatre, where he underwent his acting experience. He also appeared with his brother in his short film The Fear, which was released when the elder Lawther was applying to film school. He did not investigate drama at GCSE or A level. He started planning to read History at King's College in London, but after being cast in The Imitation Game, he gave up his position; rather, he moved to London at 18 to study acting professionally.

Personal life

As he began to work in more high-profile roles and claims himself to be "scientist." He divides his time between Paris and London. He has characterized himself as politically left-wing and avoids discussing his personal life when possible. Ben Whishaw, Sally Hawkins, and Andrew Scott are among his biggest influences as an actor.

From a young age, Lawther has been a Francophile and a lover of French cinema. He speaks fluent French, which he quickly learned for the 2020 film Les Traducteurs. Régis Roinsard, the film's producer, has stated that he has a larger French vocabulary than most native speakers.

Lawther co-signed an open letter in 2020 to the United Kingdom's government to prohibit conversion therapy for LGBT people. He has also been active in climate activism with the Extinction Rebellion. He is a feminist, and has expressed dissatisfaction with the film industry's lack of representation. Following his work in The Jungle, he became involved with charities that assist refugees and support the charity Choose Love.

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Career

In Sir David Hare's South Downs at Chichester Festival Theatre, a lawther's debut came at the age of 16. As the casting directors were scouting real students attending elite private schools in the South Downs for the play's public school environment, the actor discovered out about an open audition for the play through his school. He travelled to London, where he stunned hundreds of other young actors for the lead role. Following a local trial run, the play then moved to the West End, where he appeared in sold out runs as a result of his A Levels study. He was lauded for his work, and he was encouraged to pursue a career in film and theatre after previously thinking of acting as a hobby. He began working with a film agent shortly after.

Following his success in South Downs Lawther, the actor spent a substantial portion of his childhood playing wealthy English schoolboys. In Tony Britten's television docudrama Benjamin Britten portrayed him as a schoolboy, as well as featuring John Hurt as the narrator. In the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game (2014), Lawther received his first film role as a young Alan Turing during his time at Sherborne School, with Benedict Cumberbatch portraying the older Turing. The role earned him the London Film Critics' Circle Award for "Young British Performer of the Year" for the year. He appeared as a math pro in the critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama film X+Y, alongside Asa Butterfield and Sally Hawkins. In Virtuoso, a YouTube series starring Alan Ball, Alan Ball, he starred as a young castrato, but the show was not picked up by the network. During this period, he returned to the stage for a few small shows in London, as well as being the lead in the post-apocalyptic Crushed Shells and Mud.

He appeared in Departure, Stevenson's first lead film role, in a mix of French and English, starring Elliot Stevenson. He had to appear in a large, submerged nude scene because of his sexualized position. During the three-to-four hours that these scenes were shot, the actor was required to attend extensive training in order to film these scenes, including learning how to breathe under water for more than ten minutes at a time; during this period, he was only able to breathe only about ten times.

Kenny was the main protagonist in "Shut Up and Dance," an episode of the British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror's series "Shut Up and Dance" in 2016. Although the episode overall received mixed feedback, and Lawther himself later expressed reservations about the episode, but he received universal praise and admiration for his work. He appeared in Carnage, his frequent collaborator, comedian Simon Amstell, who also appeared in the mockumentary film.

Lawther was portrayed in Howards End, a BBC One adaptation of Hayley Atwell's E.M. Forster book that featured Hayley Atwell, as well as the lead role in Billy Bloom's Freak Exhibition in which Bette Midler, Abigail Breslin, Lorraine Toussaint, and Larry Pine all supported him. The Freak Showcase was his first (and so far) appearance in an American film; Lawther has expressed a lack of interest in appearing in more American films.

He appeared in the Peabody Award-winning television series The End of the F***ing World later this year, as James. Lawther received more attention from critics as a result of his work, as well as increasing his reputation in the entertainment industry. He'll reprise his role in the show's second and final season, which received a BAFTA Award for Best Drama. In both its London and New York productions, he also performed Sam in the Stephen Daltry-directed play The Jungle, which concentrated on the refugee crisis in Calais. Lawther spent time in France working with refugees for this work and found it to be one of his most difficult roles due to his character's right-wing views, which were antithetical to his own. Lawther appeared in Toby MacDonald's debut film Amberson as well as a supporting role in the horror film Ghost Stories.

Lawther was starring in Régis Roinsard's thriller Les Traducteurs (The Translators), his first non-English language film in 2020. He became fluent in French in a matter of only one month, having no knowledge of the language before. Lawther appeared in McKenna's "The Key to Life on Earth" music video, with fans of both Lawther and English singer-songwriter Declan McKena often resembling their resemblance. Lawther appeared in Ridley Scott's The Last Duel, Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch, and Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Earwig in 2021.

In a French version of Shakespeare's The Tempest at Les Bouffes du Nord directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, Lawther appears as Ariel as of January 2021. When Robert Icke's adaptation is brought to New York City after being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the actor will replace Andrew Scott in the titular role of Hamlet.

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