Alex Lawther

Alex Lawther

Alexander Jonathan Lawthe (born May 4, 1995) is an English actor. He began acting in theatre at 16, when he played the lead role in David Hare’s South Downs at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester. He is best known for portraying the young Alan Turing in the film "The Imitation Game"(2014), which won him the London Film Critics' Circle Award for 'Young British Performer of the Year'. This was followed with a starring role in 2015 film "Departure", opposite Juliet Stevenson. He also played the lead role of James in the Channel 4 series The End of the F***ing World (2017–2019).

On screen

  • A Second Life
  • National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk
  • The Velveteen Rabbit
  • The Lost Patient
  • Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
  • Earwig
  • Miss Fortunate
  • The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
  • The Last Duel
  • Grand amour
  • Spark
  • The Translators
  • Ghost Stories
  • Freak Show
  • Old Boys
  • Alex's Dream
  • Goodbye Christopher Robin
  • Carnage: Swallowing the Past
  • The End of the F World
  • Departure
  • Narrated By
  • Yussef is Complicated
  • The Imitation Game
  • X+Y
  • Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict
  • The Fear

Behind the camera

  • Rhoda
  • For People in Trouble

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