Frank Stephenson Dillane (born 21 April 1991) is an English actor and musician. He is known for his roles as Nick Clark on '' Fear the Walking Dead'' (2015–2018) and 16-year-old Tom Riddle in the film '' Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' (2009). He also appeared as Henry Coffin in the film ''

In the Heart of the Sea ''In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex'' is a book by American writer Nathaniel Philbrick about the loss of the whaler ''Essex'' in the Pacific Ocean in 1820. The book was published by Viking Press on May 8, 2000, and won ...

'' (2015). Dillane plays a recurring role in the 2022 gothic romance miniseries '' The Essex Serpent''.

Early life and family

Dillane was born in London, England. His father is actor

Stephen Dillane Stephen John Dillane (; born 27 March 1957) is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Leonard Woolf in the 2002 film '' The Hours'', Stannis Baratheon in ''Game of Thrones'', and Thomas Jefferson in the 2008 HBO miniseries ''John Ad ...

. His mother, Naomi Wirthner, is British and Afro-Jamaican; she manages a theatre company called The Barebones Project. He spent part of his childhood in

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, before moving to Forest Row in East Sussex, where he grew up in a creative environment. After passing his

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examinations, Dillane was accepted to the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Sena ...

(RADA) and graduated in 2013, with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting.

Acting career

Dillane has acted in film, on stage, and on television. He made his film debut at his father's side as an extra in '' Welcome to Sarajevo'' (1997) when he was six years of age. He became more widely known when he portrayed Tom Riddle (a teenage

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) in '' Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' (2009). Dillane played James Papadopoulos in the independent movie ''

Papadopoulos & Sons ''Papadopoulos & Sons'' is a 2012 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Marcus Markou and self-distributed in the UK and Ireland by Markou's own company Double M Films through an agreement with Cineworld on 5 April 2013. Cineworld ...

'' (directed by

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) in 2011. After Dillane was cast, his father decided to rearrange his own filming schedule to play Harry Papadopoulos (James' dad). Stephen Dillane declared it was rare to have the opportunity "to work with your children after they left home". In July 2013, Dillane played in ''Candida'' at Theatre Royal, Bath, directed by Simon Godwin. In 2014, he played the role of Keyes in '' Viena and the Fantomes'', directed by Gerardo Naranjo; Dakota Fanning also starred in the film. Also in 2014, he was cast in a proposed adaptation of

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's best-selling novel ''Maestro'', which was to be directed by Catherine Jarvis. Dillane starred as Nick Clark, a "shaggy-haired recovering addict", in the horror drama series '' Fear the Walking Dead'' from its debut in 2015 until its fourth season. The role was a breakout role for Dillane, who was a fan favorite on the show. In 2016, he was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Younger Actor in a Television Series for his work on ''Fear the Walking Dead''. He played Owen Coffin in ''

'' (2015). This

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directed by

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is based on Nathaniel Philbrick's non-fiction book of the same name about the sinking of the American whaling ship ''

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

'' in 1820, an event that inspired the novel ''

Moby-Dick ''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'' is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship ''Pequod'', for revenge against Moby Dick, the giant white ...

''. Dillane portrayed Shugs in the

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series '' Sense8'', directed by the Wachowskis. He appeared alongside Beanie Feldstein and Alfie Allen in '' How to Build a Girl'' (2019), directed by Coky Giedroyc.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dillane, Frank 1991 births English male film actors Living people Male actors from London 21st-century English male actors Male actors from Sussex People from Brixton Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art People from Forest Row 20th-century English male actors English male child actors English male television actors English people of Australian descent