William Gao
Birthday: Born in 2003-02-20 in London, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
William Gao Hardy (高鑫) is a British actor, singer, and model. He plays Tao Xu in the Netflix adaptation of Heartstopper. He is from South Croydon. He is the son of an British father and a Chinese mother who moved to England in her 20s. He attended the Trinity School, where he completed A Levels in Chinese, music and drama in 2022. He took up classical piano at the age of 11 and was a member of Trinity Boys Choir. He joined the National Youth Theatre in May 2019.
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Heartstopper
Character: Tao Xu
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series....
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Sunrise
Character: Edward
When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a vampire who feeds on blood and fear. After he is befriended by a kind immigrant family, the instinctive killer is faced with a choice between revenge and redemption....
Crescendo
Character: Pianist
A teenage pianist delivers a chilling performance....
Joe Lycett's Big Pride Party
Character: Self
Joe Lycett, Mawaan Rizwan and Rosie Jones are in Birmingham to celebrate 50 years of Pride with a party full of mischief and mayhem! With Boy George, Dame Kelly Holmes, Danny Dyer and many more....
Isotope
Character: Isotope
Accompanying short film for Wasia Project's EP of the same name....
Dead Cat Film
Character: Alex
A short film about Florence, a young lady having difficulty letting go of her housemate’s dead cat....
Heartstopper: The Movie
Character: Tao Xu
Nick and Charlie are inseparable, but with Nick preparing to leave for university and Charlie finding new independence at school, the reality of a long-distance relationship begins to weigh on them. Doubts take hold, and their relationship faces its biggest challenge yet. Meanwhile, their friends are also navigating the ups and downs of love and friendship, confronting the bittersweet challenges of growing up and moving on....
Breakwater
Character: Matt
Set between the sandstone colleges of Oxford and the salt-encrusted Suffolk coast, Breakwater follows the tentative romance between university student, Otto, and retired angler, John. Their lives fuse irreversibly over the shared trauma of losing a loved one, however, their relationship darkens when the past exhumes itself in the form of guilt, grief, and ghosts....