Part of Emmys 2025 featuring Adam Randall and Noah Wyle, Golden Globes 2026 with Paul Thomas Anderson and Wagner Moura, and SAG Awards 2026 with Michael B. Jordan and Jessie Buckley.
Rise to Fame
He showed up to the Adolescence audition with no professional credits, just two years of weekly classes at a Manchester acting school. Out of 500 auditions, he got the part of Jamie Miller, a 13-year-old accused of murder. The production filmed every episode in a single continuous take, no cuts, no second chances. He had to sustain a full hour of the most emotionally demanding material Netflix had put on screen in years. The Evening Standard wrote that his performance 'may be the best debut ever seen by a child actor.'
In the Spotlight
At 15, he became the youngest male Emmy winner in history, taking Outstanding Supporting Actor for a Limited Series. A few months later at 16, the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a TV Series made him the youngest winner in that category's history. He swept the full circuit in a single year: Emmy, Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and SAG Award. He's already moved on, playing young Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights opposite Margot Robbie.
Side Notes
He grew up in Warrington wanting to be a footballer. Acting came later, after watching Tom Holland in The Impossible convinced him to try classes. He joined the Drama Mob, a Manchester theatre school co-founded by Coronation Street actress Tina O'Brien and Esther Morgan, and spent two years there before someone at the school submitted his name to the Adolescence casting call. Two older brothers, both electricians. He'd never been on a professional set before the day filming started.