Anthony Boyle

Last updated

Anthony Boyle
Anthony Boyle by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Boyle in 2019
Born (1994-06-08) 8 June 1994 (age 29)
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Education Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
OccupationActor
Years active2013–present

Anthony Boyle (born 8 June 1994) is an actor from Northern Ireland. [1] A graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Boyle began his acting career on London stage and rose to prominence for originating the role of Scorpius Malfoy in the West End and Broadway productions of the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016), for which he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He has also appeared in the films Tolkien (2019) and Tetris (2023) as well as the miniseries The Plot Against America (2020) and Masters of the Air (2024).

Contents

Early life and education

Boyle was born in west Belfast, and attended De La Salle College until he was expelled at age 16, to get hired and fired a week later from a night club for underage drinking. [2] He then went to St Louise's Comprehensive College, [3] and in 2013, began training at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff before graduating in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in acting. [4] [5] He started his acting career in a production of 'Romeo and Juliet'–a production he describes as "the worst productions you've ever seen." [6]

Personal life

One of his good friends is fellow Irish actress Lola Petticrew.

Acting credits

Key
†Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2016 The Lost City of Z Trench Runner [3]
2016 The Journey Young Ian Paisley [3]
2019 Tolkien Geoffrey Bache Smith [7]
2020 Danny Boy Brian Wood
2022VictimsTom D Jennings
2023 Tetris Kevin Maxwell

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2014 Game of Thrones Bolton Guard [3] Episode: "The Laws of Gods and Men"
2017 Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams Sam [7] 1 episode
2018 Ordeal By Innocence Jack Argyll [8] Miniseries, 3 episodes
2018 Derry Girls David Donnelly [7] 2 episodes
2018 Patrick Melrose Barry [7] Miniseries, 1 episode
2018 Come Home Liam Farrell [9] Miniseries, 3 episodes
2020 The Plot Against America Alvin Levin [7] Miniseries, 6 episodes
2024 Masters of the Air Major Harry Crosby Miniseries, 9 episodes
2024 Manhunt John Wilkes Booth Miniseries, 6 episodes
TBA† Say Nothing Brendan Hughes Filming [10]

Theatre

YearTitleRoleNotes
2013HeronsAaron [4] Pintsized Productions
2014 Othello Iago [4] Richard Burton Theatre
2015East Belfast BoyDavey (& co-writer) [4] Partisan Productions
2015 In Arabia We'd All Be Kings Skank [4] Richard Burton Theatre
2015 The Taming of the Shrew Biondello, Curtis, Merchant, Widow [4] Richard Burton Theatre
2015 Mojo Baby [4]
2016–2017 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Scorpius Malfoy [4] Palace Theatre
2018–2019 Lyric Theatre

Radio

YearTitleRoleNotes
2015 Frankenstein The Creature [4] RWCMD (with Big Finish Productions)
2016The TidebreakAlfred Meyer [7] BBC Radio 3
2017MaydayPaul [7] BBC Radio 4

Accolades

Theatre

YearAwardCategoryWorkResult
2016 Critics' Circle Theatre Award [11] Most Promising Newcomer Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Won
Evening Standard Theatre Award [12] [13] Emerging Talent Nominated
2017 Laurence Olivier Award [14] Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play Won
2018 Tony Award [15] Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Nominated
Drama Desk Award [16] Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Nominated
Drama League Award [17] Distinguished PerformanceNominated
Outer Critics Circle Award [18] Outstanding Actor in a Featured Role in a PlayNominated
Theatre World Award [19] Honoree

Related Research Articles

Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre is an English film, theatre, television and opera director. Eyre has received numerous accolades including three Laurence Olivier Awards as well as nominations for six BAFTA Awards and two Tony Awards. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1992 News Year Honours, and knighted in the 1997 New Year Honours.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adrian Lester</span> English actor, director and writer (b. 1968)

Adrian Anthony Lester is an English actor, director and writer. He is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award, an Evening Standard Theatre Award and a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for his work on the London stage, and has also been nominated for a Tony Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sharon D. Clarke</span> British actress and singer (born 1966)

Sharon Delores Clarke is an English actress and singer. She is a three-time Olivier Award winner, and is best known to television audiences for her role as Lola Griffin in the medical drama Holby City, and as Grace O'Brien in Doctor Who. Clarke has also played lead roles in many West End musicals, and originated the roles of the Killer Queen in We Will Rock You and Oda Mae Brown in Ghost the Musical.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jamie Parker</span> English actor and singer

Jamie Parker is an English actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Harry Potter in the original cast for the West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play and a WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Play. He also received a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play as a member of the original Broadway version.

Sam Crane is an English actor. He attended Oxford University and LAMDA, where he won the Nicholas Hytner Award. He played Farinelli in Claire van Kampen's Farinelli and the King opposite Mark Rylance at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and reprised his role when the production transferred first to the Duke of York's Theatre and then to the Belasco Theatre on Broadway. He is also known for playing Winston Smith in Headlong's production of 1984 in the West End, Fred Walters in the BBC's six-part drama series Desperate Romantics and Frederick Abberline in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Syndicate. In 2017 he played Patrick Plunket in an episode of the Netflix series The Crown. Since 13th October 2022 Sam has been playing the lead, Harry Potter, in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre, London.

Sir Colin Nigel Callender is a British television, film and theater producer. He is the CEO at Playground Entertainment, a production company with offices in New York and London.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Noma Dumezweni</span> British actress

Noma Dumezweni is a South African-British actress. In 2006, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for her performance as Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. In 2017, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Hermione Granger in the original West End run of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; she reprised the role for the show's original Broadway run and, in 2018, was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laurence Olivier Awards</span> English annual theatre awards

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply TheOlivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London. The awards were originally known as the Society of West End Theatre Awards, but they were renamed in honour of the British actor of the same name in 1984.

Lucy Ann Kirkwood is a British playwright and screenwriter. She is known for her plays Chimerica (2013) and The Children (2016).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lucy Prebble</span> British playwright (born 1980)

Lucy AshtonPrebble is a British playwright and producer. She has received numerous accolades including three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award as well as two Laurence Olivier Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sonia Friedman</span> British theatre producer (born 1965)

Sonia Friedman is a British West End and Broadway theatre producer. On 27 January 2017, Friedman was named Producer of the Year for the third year running at The Stage Awards, becoming the first person to win the award three times. In 2018, Friedman was featured in "TIME100", Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018 and was named Broadway Briefing's Show Person of the Year. In 2019, Sonia Friedman Productions was ranked The Stage 's most influential theatre producer in The Stage 100.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Denise Gough</span> Irish actress

Denise Gough is an Irish actress. She has received a number of accolades, including two Laurence Olivier Awards as well as a nominations for a Tony Award and a British Academy Television Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marianne Elliott</span> British theatre director (born 1966)

Marianne Phoebe Elliott is a British theatre director and producer who works on the West End and Broadway. She has received numerous accolades including two Laurence Olivier Awards and four Tony Awards.

Robert Hugh Carvel is a British film and theatre actor. He has twice won a Laurence Olivier Award: for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his role as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda the Musical, and for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as Rupert Murdoch in Ink. For the latter role, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play.

John Richard Tiffany is an English theatre director. He directed the internationally successful productions Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Black Watch and Once. He has won 2 Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Obie Award.

Steven Hoggett is a British choreographer and movement director. He has won an Olivier Award as well as an Obie Award, has been nominated four times for a Drama Desk Award and three times for a Tony Award.

<i>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child</i> 2016 play by Jack Thorne

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a play written by Jack Thorne from an original story written by J. K. Rowling, Thorne and John Tiffany. The story is set nineteen years after the events of the 2007 novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Rowling. It follows Albus Severus Potter, son of Harry Potter, who is now Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic. When Albus arrives at Hogwarts, he gets sorted into Slytherin, and fails to live up to his father's legacy, making him resentful of his father. Rowling has referred to the play as "the eighth Harry Potter story".

Playground Entertainment is a television, film and theatre production company with offices in New York and London, founded in 2012 by Sir Colin Callender, former President of HBO Films.

Samuel Timothy Clemmett is a British actor. He is best known for his role as Albus Potter in the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Clemett plays Brimsley in the 2023 Netflix series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, portraying the series' first LGBT+ romance.

Neil Austin is an English lighting designer. He has won two Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards and is the lighting designer for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, for which he has won an Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Helpmann, Outer Critics Circle and WhatsOnStage Award.

References

  1. ↑ Kleinman, Jake (31 March 2020). "How Anthony Boyle learned to be Jewish for David Simon's new show". Inverse. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
  2. ↑ "'Harry Potter' star was once kicked out of school". 5 June 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Meredith, Robbie (8 August 2016). "Anthony Boyle: Belfast actor enjoying rave reviews in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child". BBC News. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Spotlight: Anthony Boyle". www.spotlight.com. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Anthony Boyle, the Maybe Bad Boy of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'". 5 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "'Harry Potter' star was once kicked out of school". 5 June 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Anthony Boyle | Hamilton Hodell". www.hamiltonhodell.co.uk. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  8. ↑ Billen, Andrew (31 March 2018). "Ordeal by Innocence: the Christie Mystery that almost got away". The Times. No. 72497. Saturday Review. pp. 4–5. ISSN   0140-0460.
  9. ↑ "IMDB". IMDb . 4 July 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  10. ↑ Kroll, Justin (1 February 2024). "Lola Petticrew, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle, Josh Finan and Maxine Peake To Star In FX Limited Series 'Say Nothing'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  11. ↑ "2016 Results | Critics' Circle Theatre Awards". 31 January 2017. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  12. ↑ "Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2016: The longlist". Evening Standard. 19 October 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  13. ↑ "Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2016: The winners". Evening Standard. 13 November 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  14. ↑ "Olivier Winners 2017". Olivier Awards. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  15. ↑ Nyren, Erin (11 June 2018). "Tony Award Winners 2018: The Complete List". Variety. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  16. ↑ "SpongeBob SquarePants & More Win 2018 Drama Desk Awards". Broadway.com. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  17. ↑ Millward, Tom (18 May 2018). "Drama League Awards 2018 - And the Winners are..." New York Theater Guide. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  18. ↑ Millward, Tom (7 May 2018). "Outer Critics Circle Awards 2018... And the Winners are..." New York Theater Guide. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  19. ↑ "Bravo! Winners Announced for the 2018 Theatre World Awards". Broadway.com. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.