Sean Teale (born 18 June 1992) is a British actor, known for his roles as Prince Condé in ''

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'',

Nick Levan Nicholas Laurence "Nick" Levan is a fictional character from the third generation in the British teen drama '' Skins'', played by Sean Teale. Nick was introduced in the fifth series and is a former rugby player who used to play for the school t ...

in '' Skins'', and Ben Larson in the Syfy series '' Incorporated.'' He also co-starred in the

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sci-fi/drama series '' The Gifted''.

Early life

Teale grew up in

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. He is of Venezuelan,

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, and

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descent. His father, Noel, is an

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and his mother, Fini, works at a

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. Teale attended

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in Hammersmith where he played

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and football and took

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. His performance in a school play was spotted by an agent in the audience. Teale decided to switch his focus from sports to drama after his agents advised him to renounce for fear of damaging his looks. He began auditions as he was preparing for his A-levels in History, Drama and Economics. He has deferred his place at the

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studying History and Economics to pursue his acting career.

Career

In January 2010 Teale played Derek in the short film ''Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother'' directed by Greg Williams starring Tom Hardy. Winner of Best Direction at the

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Short Film Fest 2010, the film was released into the film festival circuit in 2011. In the same year he played a werewolf in

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’s '' Summer in Transylvania''. Teale gained popularity in 2011, when he landed a lead role as

in the fifth and sixth series of E4 BAFTA-winning drama '' Skins'', after originally auditioning for Rider, a minor role. Subsequently he appeared in

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's ''

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'', a 10-hour docudrama created by

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, and played regular roles in the second series of the period dramas ''

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'' and ''

''. In 2012 he was cast in ''Abominable Snowman'' (originally called ''Deadly Descent''), a horror TV film directed by Marko Mäkilaakso and released on the American channel Syfy. In March 2012 he filmed, in

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, ''

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'', a

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directed by

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first screened at the

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2013 and released in cinemas in 2014. In 2015 he was in

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's thriller film '' Survivor'' and '' The Red Tent'', a biblical television series filmed in

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. He starred in the short-lived

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TV series '' Incorporated'' in 2016. Beginning in autumn 2017, Teale began his new role as Marcos Diaz, also known by his handle of "Eclipse," in

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's barely-futuristic mutant world of mostly young people with special powers—where they are now hunted as criminals—in the new

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/drama series '' The Gifted''. Although based on the ''

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'' feature film series, ''The Gifted'' takes place in an alternate timeline where all of The X-Men are missing. Eclipse can manipulate photons. Diaz grew up parentless, starting out as a younger man running drugs between México and the U.S., leading to his current passion of trafficking at-risk hunted mutants to relative safety.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Teale, Sean Living people 1992 births British actors of Latin American descent English male film actors English male television actors English people of Spanish descent English people of Venezuelan descent English people of Welsh descent Male actors from London People educated at Latymer Upper School People from Putney