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Joe Alwyn
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Joseph Matthew Alwyn (born February 21, 1991) is an English actor. Alwyn made his feature film debut as the titular character in Ang Lee's 2016 war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and has since played roles in films such as The Favourite (2018), Boy Erased (2018), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), Harriet (2019), Catherine Called Birdy (2022), and The Brutalist (2024), as well as the BBC and Hulu drama series Conversations with Friends (2022).
Born in Kent and raised in North London, Alwyn developed an interest in acting during his teenage years. He acted in student productions at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and obtained BA degrees in English literature and drama, and acting, from the Unive…
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Joseph Matthew Alwyn (born February 21, 1991) is an English actor. Alwyn made his feature film debut as the titular character in Ang Lee's 2016 war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and has since played roles in films such as The Favourite (2018), Boy Erased (2018), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), Harriet (2019), Catherine Called Birdy (2022), and The Brutalist (2024), as well as the BBC and Hulu drama series Conversations with Friends (2022). Born in Kent and raised in North London, Alwyn developed an interest in acting during his teenage years. He acted in student productions at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and obtained BA degrees in English literature and drama, and acting, from the University of Bristol (2012), and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2015), respectively. He is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter and has won the Trophée Chopard at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and appeared on the 2022 Time 100 Next list of rising stars.
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Joe Alwyn's Filmography
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Panic Carefully
Hamlet
as Laertes
Inside Look: Hamnet
as Self
Hamnet
as Bartholomew
The Brutalist
as Harry Lee
Kinds of Kindness
as Collectibles Appraiser / Passenger / Joseph
A Very Short Film About Longing
Stars at Noon
as Daniel
Catherine Called Birdy
as Uncle George
The Souvenir: Part II
as Max
The Last Letter from Your Lover
as Lawrence Stirling
Miss Americana
as Self
FX's A Christmas Carol
as Bob Cratchit
Harriet
as Gideon Brodess
Mary Queen of Scots
as Robert Dudley
The Favourite
as Masham
Boy Erased
as Henry Wallace
Operation Finale
as Klaus Eichmann
The Sense of an Ending
as Adrian Finn Sr.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
as Billy Lynn
No Poster
The Origin of the World
No Poster
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
as Charles Clayton
No Poster
Cavendish
as Barlow
No Poster
Still We Met
as Isaac