Elliot Barnes-Worrell

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Elliot Barnes-Worrell
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BornMarch 1991 (age 32)
London, England
Alma mater BRIT School
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
OccupationActor
Years active2008–present
Television Jericho
Van der Valk

Elliot Barnes-Worrell (born March 1991) is an English theatre and film actor known for his role as Easter in the ITV drama series Jericho (2016) [1] and as Job Cloovers in the ITV crime drama series Van der Valk (2020). [2] [3]

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Early life

Barnes-Worrell grew up in Peckham in the London Borough of Southwark. His father is the West Indian author, director and composer Trix Worrell. [4]

While Barnes-Worrell was artistically a rapper, he attended a Hamlet performance in the Ovalhouse, in which an actor with black skin color played Hamlet . He took an interest and became a regular theatre goer. He began training as an actor at the BRIT School and then moved to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he graduated after winning the Sir John Gielgud Award. In 2012 he was awarded the Alan Bates Award by the Actors Center.

Career

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009Dog EndzCorey (as Elliot Barnes-Worrell)TV movie
2012 Doctor Who: Good as Gold Torch Bearer
2013WoodhouseNathaniel
2013 Poirot Etienne De SouzaEpisode: Dead Man's Folly
2016 Jericho Easter
2016The WorksHarryProducer [5]
2016Bloke FearsPerformerShort Film
2018The Dark Heart TherapyThe Dark heartShort Film
2019Soon Gone: A Windrush ChronicleDavid [6] Episode six: Malcolm and David
2020 Dolittle Captain William Derrick
2020–2022 Van Der Valk Job ClooversTV series

Theatre

YearTitleRoleWriterDirectorVenue
2012 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Colin Smith [7] Alan Sillitoe Roy Williams Theatre Royal York, York
2013 Richard II Prince John [8] William Shakespeare Gregory Doran Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
2014 Henry IV, Part I & Henry IV, Part II Prince John / Francis [9] [10] [11] William Shakespeare Gregory Doran Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
2014 The Two Gentlemen of Verona Prince John [12] William Shakespeare Simon Godwin Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
2015 Man and Superman Henry Straker [13] [14] [15] George Bernard Shaw Julian Spooner Royal National Theatre, London
2017 Hamlet Horatio [16] [17] William Shakespeare Robert Icke The Almeida Theatre, London

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