Elliot Barnes-Worrell | |
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Born | March 1991 (age 33) London, England |
Alma mater | BRIT School Royal Central School of Speech and Drama |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2008–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]
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.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2009 | Dog Endz | Corey (as Elliot Barnes-Worrell) | TV movie |
2012 | Doctor Who: Good as Gold | Torch Bearer | |
2013 | Woodhouse | Nathaniel | |
2013 | Poirot | Etienne De Souza | Episode: Dead Man's Folly |
2016 | Jericho | Easter | |
2016 | The Works | Harry | Producer [5] |
2016 | Bloke Fears | Performer | Short Film |
2018 | The Dark Heart Therapy | The Dark heart | Short Film |
2019 | Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle | David [6] | Episode six: Malcolm and David |
2020 | Dolittle | Captain William Derrick | |
2020–2022 | Van Der Valk | Job Cloovers | TV series |
Year | Title | Role | Writer | Director | Venue |
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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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