Will Grant Oliver Attenborough (born 26 June 1991) is a British actor known for his roles in ''
Photograph 51,
Our Girl
''Our Girl'' is a British television military drama series, written and created by Tony Grounds, first broadcast on BBC One on 24 March 2013. The series initially starred Lacey Turner as Molly Dawes, a young working-class woman, who joins the ...
,
Dunkirk,'' and ''
The Outpost.''
Career
He played the lead role in
Jeremy Herrin
Jeremy Herrin is an English theatre director. He is the artistic director of Headlong Theatre.
Career
Having trained at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Herrin was an assistant director ...
's production of ''
Another Country'' in the West End, and starred opposite
Nicole Kidman
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onstage in ''
Photograph 51''. He has had roles in
Sam Mendes-produced ''
The Hollow Crown ''The Hollow Crown'' may refer to:
* a passage in Shakespeare's play '' Richard II''
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'', Channel 4's ''
Utopia
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'', ''
Home Fires'', ''
Denial
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'' starring
Rachel Weisz
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Weisz began acting in British stage and television in the ...
, and the
Oscar
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-winning ''
Dunkirk''.
Attenborough won
The Moth
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London Grandslam in 2018. In 2019, he played Ed Faulkner, a veteran of the
Battle of Kamdesh, in ''
The Outpost'', based on
Jake Tapper
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's book on the War in Afghanistan. He stars in BBC One's ''
Our Girl
''Our Girl'' is a British television military drama series, written and created by Tony Grounds, first broadcast on BBC One on 24 March 2013. The series initially starred Lacey Turner as Molly Dawes, a young working-class woman, who joins the ...
'' as Oliver Hurst.
Attenborough is an advocate for
Fossil Free UK and helped secure
mayor of London
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The current m ...
Sadiq Khan
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's commitment to divest City Hall's £5bn pension fund of fossil fuel stocks. In 2017, Attenborough launched a campaign, with actress
Leila Mimmack
Leila Mimmack (born 5 November 1993) is an English actress.
Early life
Mimmack was born on 5 November 1993 in Leamington Spa to parents Maddy Kerr and Peter Mimmack, who run the Heartbreak Productions theatre company in Spencer Yard, Leamington. ...
and
Mark Rylance
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, for
Equity, the performers' union, to move its fossil fuel investments into clean energy.
Personal life
Attenborough identifies as queer.
He is the son of theatre director
Michael Attenborough
Michael John Attenborough (born 13 February 1950) is an English theatre director.
Background
Attenborough was born on 13 February 1950 in London, the only son of actress Sheila Sim and actor-director Richard Attenborough. He is the nephew ...
and actress Karen Lewis. He is the grandson of actor-director
Richard Attenborough and actress
Sheila Sim
Sheila Beryl Grant Sim, Baroness Attenborough (5 June 1922 – 19 January 2016) was an English film and theatre actress. She was also the wife of the actor, director and peer Richard Attenborough.
Career
Sheila Beryl Grant Sim was born in ...
, as well as great-nephew of naturalist, Sir
David Attenborough.
He is Jewish. His great-grandparents also adopted two Jewish refugee girls from the
Kindertransport
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.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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British male film actors
British male stage actors
British environmentalists
Living people
1991 births
People educated at St Paul's School, London