Alex Lawther
Birthday: Born in 1995-05-04 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Alex Lawther (born May 4, 1995) is an English actor. He began acting in theatre at 16, when he played the lead role in David Hare’s South Downs at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester. He is best known for portraying the young Alan Turing in the film "The Imitation Game"(2014), which won him the London Film Critics' Circle Award for 'Young British Performer of the Year'. This was followed with a starring role in 2015 film "Departure", opposite Juliet Stevenson.
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The Cleaner
Character: Shaman
After CSI have done their stuff, the cleaner mops up the grisly remains. For Wicky, a bloodbath and the pub is all in a day's work....
Alien: Earth
Character: CJ
When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat....
Summer Camp Island
Character: Mildred's Friend / Additional Voices (voice)
Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions....
Holby City
Character: Fred Bamber
Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients....
Black Mirror
Character: Kenny
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence....
The End of the F***ing World
Character: James
James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father....
Howards End
Character: Tibby Schlegel
The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts....
Summer Camp Island
Character: Mildred's Friend (voice)
Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions....
Lloyd of the Flies
Character: Abacus Woodlouse (voice)
The series follows the adventures of Lloyd B Fly, a housefly and the middle child of 451. Lloyd lives with his parents, his little sister PB and their 224 maggot siblings inside a compost bin they call home. In the series, Lloyd and PB are usually accompanied by Lloyd’s best friend, Abacus Woodlouse, and eccentric tag-along, Cornea Butterfly. Together they explore the strange world beyond the compost bin, where there is no shortage of lessons for Lloyd to very nearly learn....
Star Wars: Andor
Character: Karis Nemik
In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. He embarks on a path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero....
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Miss Fortunate
Character: Jack
If luck is a lady, grief is a bitch. A young woman loses her mother and finds herself....
The Velveteen Rabbit
Character: Velveteen Rabbit (voice)
When seven-year-old William receives a new favorite toy for Christmas, he discovers a lifelong friend and unlocks a world of magic....
The Lost Patient
Character: Bastien
The 19 years old Thomas wakes up in a hospital after three years in a coma. He doesn't remember anything. The psychologist Anna tells him that his family has been murdered and that he is the only survivor of the massacre while his sister Laura is still missing....
The Imitation Game
Character: Young Alan Turing
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II....
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Character: Karis Nemik (archive footage) (uncredited)
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor....
X+Y
Character: Isaac Cooper
A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad....
Departure
Character: Elliot
An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to co...
Grand amour
Character:
In collaboration with AIDES, an association fighting against HIV, this feature film brings together over 30 artists to explore the freedom to love beyond stereotypes. Desire, passion, break-ups, Grand Amour or the modern version of the freedom to love. All stories are told across genders and sexualities....
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Character: Older Christopher Robin Milne
The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin....
Narrated By
Character: Sam Sipowitz
A young man is forced to confront an uninvited and ever-present narrator....
Ghost Stories
Character: Simon Rifkind
Professor Philip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an abandoned asylum, a car accident deep in the woods and the spirit of an unborn child. Even scarier -- each of the macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to the professor's own life....
Freak Show
Character: Billy Bloom
The story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen....
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Character: Volunteer: Joey
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed....
The Translators
Character: Alex Goodman
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker....
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
Character: Benjamin Britten
A feature film about Benjamin Britten, released as part of the 100 year celebrations of his birth. Britten is the most performed British composer worldwide. This film premiered at Gresham's School, which he attended, and focuses on how his life-long pacifism influenced his life and music. Written and directed by Tony Britten (In Love With Alama Cogan), narrated by John Hurt and with a superb cast of young people, including many supporting roles taken by students of Gresham's School, the film wea...
Old Boys
Character: Amberson
In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher....
Yussef is Complicated
Character: Rory
Surly and silent, Yussef cuts a lonely figure at school, isolated from staff and pupils alike. But when a vicious schoolyard fight leaves a boy severely injured and Yussef on the brink of expulsion, his one ally and friend, long suffering teacher Emily Robson, is summoned to a crisis meeting to decide what to do with this aggressive outcast. The next day, she sets the class an assignment; 'the day that changed my life'....
The Fear
Character: The Boy
This short film is a portrayal of the classic 'Fear' many people experience, fear of inadequacy, fear of failure, fear to really live their lives. It shows a young boy running from these fears in a dream like state and eventually falling, only to awake as a middle aged man, his life passed before him, un-lived, due to the overwhelming sense of fear encumbering and restricting him to the extent that he does and thinks about nothing else....
The French Dispatch
Character: Morisot
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef....
The Last Duel
Character: King Charles VI
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel....
Earwig
Character: Laurence
Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia's wellbeing. Until the day Albert is instructed that he must prepare the child to leave....
Alex's Dream
Character: Alex Morin
Alex arrives uninvited to a party and, after a set of excruciating interactions with other guests, is forced to recount a self-reflecting dream he has had. A meditation on oneiric experience in cinema, mental health, talking dogs and fishermen....
Spark
Character: Theo
The year 2049 – when technology has been invented that converts human emotions into clean energy. A young man, out of touch with his feelings, experiences a moment that sparks him back into life....